Sleepover Adventures with Tilly!

Tilly and I have been asking our parents for a sleepover for a while now, and they finally arranged one! It was orginially only meant to be for three days, but we got an extra day because on the day we were meant to be dropping Tilly off, the weather was too cold to go to the park.

On the first full day of the sleepover, Tilly, mom and dad and I went to Baston in the Blitz. We went last year without Tilly, but I found it a lot more fun to walk around with her and leave my parents behind. I think my parents would have been a bit happier if we had taken more notice of all of the displays instead of running around and having fun, though.

We met Winston Churchill!




and Hercule Poirot



We found a shady spot

On the second day, we decided to buy a bunch of sweets and go to the cinema to see the BFG. We payed for the upgraded, leather seats again with lots of legroom. We should have just got the cheaper seats then moved to the expensive ones because the cinema was completely empty! The film was a lot better than I expected, so I definitely recommend going to see it.

The third day was spent at Rand Farm in Lincoln. I had been there before with Lilli and Summer, but never with Tilly. We had a really fun time feeding all of the animals, but the main reason we went was for the Go Karts and the Sky Line. The Sky Line was a massive, really tall zip-wire like thing. It was free to go on but it only had set times that it was on. We rushed around all of the animals to get to it in time, but when we got there it wasn't on! The Go Karts were also really dissapointing, because there was only one there. There wasn't much point in going on them if we couldn't race eachother.
Still, we had a really great time!

Cheeky pony

It's hard work feeding the calves



Baby chicks

On the fourth and final day, we went to Wrest Park with a bunch of other friends. We had a lot of fun playing hide and seek around the grounds! Unfortunately, Tilly had to go back to her own home. I hope we plan another sleepover soon!

Wrest Park

Art Week Day 4!

Austrian artist Hundertwasser was born in 1928. He went to art school but didn't stay long because he thought he already knew everything he needed to, to become an artist. He was none conformist, which means he didn't follow the rules. He was a visionary creator and he wanted to spread the message of being in harmony with nature. He was also an environmentalist.

Hundertwasser painted wherever he was, at home, in nature, on the train, in restaurants, anywhere! He didn't have a studio or even an easel. Instead, he would spread out a sheet of paper or canvas flat out infront of him and begin to draw. He painted mainly in watercolours but the painting I have done is in soluble markers, or felt tips. After I'd done the outline, I added a thin layer of water so the colours run and blend slightly, this makes it look like it's a watercolour, hopefully!
Hundertwasser's paintings were very colourful, and he liked painting in curved lines and stripes.

Heckington Show!

I've been to a lot of town and village shows before, but by far the biggest one I've ever been to was the Heckington Festival. We went there at the weekend. Mom, dad and I were there for about 4 hours but we still didn't get to see all of it! There was absolutely loads to do including antique shows, horse jumping, a fun fair and a WW2 display.

I think the most interesting thing at the festival was the sheep showing. At one end of the show, there was a huge tent full of little pens with hundreds of different breeds of sheep. I didn't realise there were so many different types! Some of the sheep had curly wool, some had spots and some were sheared. One thing that they all had in common though, was that they wouldn't shut up! I never realised sheep were so noisy. Outside of the tent, a show judge was viewing a small group of sheep at a time and awarding them rosettes. Some sheep did really well and got about 5 or 6 rosettes by the end of the showing!

In one of the tents packed with stalls, I found a rather beautiful looking necklace with a peridot stone. I loved the shade of green so much that I just had to buy it! The woman selling the necklaces gave a very educational talk about all of the different gem stones.

In a different tent, there was a stall advertising the Heckington Windmill. The woman there let me had a go at grinding the wheat between the giant mill stones to make flour. We saw the mill as we were driving in to the town, but I didn't realise it was the only windmill on Earth that still uses the grinding technique to produce flour! It's also very unusual because it has 8 working sails. The lady said me and my friends could have an educational visit and a tour of the mill. We'll even get to make bread! Mom's going to arrange it soon. I can't wait!

Near the end of the day, we stopped to watch a bit of the World War 1 show. Two first aid women on ponies were accompained by two soldiers on huge horses. In the middle of battle, the women on their ponies would charge through the battlefield to get to the injured soldiers and give them first-aid. The ponies must have been extremely brave!

Followed by the soldiers, was a gigantic tank. It was incredibly noisy and painfully slow, but very impressive to see. Mom got a picture of me and dad taking a picture of it!