A day at Warwick Castle. And I have to say that every penny there is well spent. The place is so well organised with something going on all the time and plenty to keep the children amused. "A" had a great time. Hard to say what was her favourite but I think she enjoyed the mini knights. This was an opportunity for the children to learn a bit about fighting in the 100 years war. The children got to choose roles from archers, billmen, knights and trebuchet operators ("A" was an archer). Then the daddies (well, some of us, considering how many children were involved either a lot of daddies were spoil sports or some of us had been VERY busy boys) played the role of the french. We charged the english lines but were repelled, first by the archers then the billmen. A trebuchet missile almost killed our king before we were massacred by the english knights. A lot of calls of "vive la france" and "sacre bleu" along with misbehaved horses and squeaky helmets lead to a lot of laughs, as much from the mothers as from the children.
The highlight for me was to see the working trebuchet. This monster of a siege weapon is the largest in existence weighing in at 22 tonnes and 18 metres high. We were very lucky today as there was no wind so they decided to fling a fireball. A big rock wrapped in hesian soaked in fuel and lit. The ball soared to an unbelievable height and an incredible distance before hitting the ground in an explosion of fire. Impressive.
4 comments:
or they could have experimented and launched a small child...
can we have one at greenbelt? can we can we?
have the french sold their sotry to the sun yet? What d'ya mean, you don't get paid for blogging it?
Hey there. Good blog. Just found this when yours and mine were both mentioned on the Channel4 Newsroom blog website for our comments on stomach stapling for obese kids. Nice to know someone else is also telling it like it is and disregading political correctness!
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