Above: Punch and Judy gets a hand at the Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green (all free, 3 stars, looong 90 min+ bus ride from home) on Fri Mar 5
Above: in front of the oldest (1673 or something) doll's house at Childhood museum 
Right: the Lone Lara at the Childhood Museum. Below: Rosa laxes out at Camden Lock market on Saturday.
Above: Coming down Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath on Sunday March 7th. Drove there, and later along by England's 2nd most expensive residential street (av price £6.07 m) after one in Belgravia (av price £6.09m). Saw a guy swimming in the male-only pond - there was ice still on some puddles around it at 3pm. Lovely day as you can see, as it was all last week virtually.
Right and below: Scoffing pizza in The Stables (since 1854), the recently renovated part of Camden Lock markets; and below, scooters double as cafe seats at Camden.
Above: The RAF museum in Hendon (20 min drive away, all free except for £11 for 4 kids on 4min flight simulator ride) had lots of hands-on kids stuff, most of it pretty cool, lots to do with fans blowing air around and ping pong balls and stuff. Right: The girls in their simulator (small version meant the short stuffs could do it, whereas sam and ellie went on a bigger one).
World War One planes at RAF museum and below, pretending to fly a Spitfire.
Above: in front of the oldest (1673 or something) doll's house at Childhood museum Left: iron filings and magnet drawing
Right: the Lone Lara at the Childhood Museum. Below: Rosa laxes out at Camden Lock market on Saturday.
Above: Coming down Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath on Sunday March 7th. Drove there, and later along by England's 2nd most expensive residential street (av price £6.07 m) after one in Belgravia (av price £6.09m). Saw a guy swimming in the male-only pond - there was ice still on some puddles around it at 3pm. Lovely day as you can see, as it was all last week virtually.
Right and below: Scoffing pizza in The Stables (since 1854), the recently renovated part of Camden Lock markets; and below, scooters double as cafe seats at Camden.
Above: The RAF museum in Hendon (20 min drive away, all free except for £11 for 4 kids on 4min flight simulator ride) had lots of hands-on kids stuff, most of it pretty cool, lots to do with fans blowing air around and ping pong balls and stuff. Right: The girls in their simulator (small version meant the short stuffs could do it, whereas sam and ellie went on a bigger one).
World War One planes at RAF museum and below, pretending to fly a Spitfire.
From Ellie,
On Monday we painted Mikey and Minnie mouse. I painted Minnie mouse.Her face was pink &
orange.
From Rosa:
we went on sunday to Hampstead Heath. (dad writing here:) I liked the octopus swing ride in the Parliament hill playground that all 4 of us went on. On Friday we went to Park Road swimming pool again and it was nice and warm.
On Monday we painted Mikey and Minnie mouse. I painted Minnie mouse.Her face was pink &
orange.
From Rosa:
we went on sunday to Hampstead Heath. (dad writing here:) I liked the octopus swing ride in the Parliament hill playground that all 4 of us went on. On Friday we went to Park Road swimming pool again and it was nice and warm.
From Lara:
We went to the RAF museum and went on the simulator.
Kia Ora Pennington Whanau!! We've joined your following - how cool is it to be able to watch & look at all you're doing!! Happy Birthday Sam....only a few days away for you and you've begun the double digits!!
ReplyDeleteFrom Shawnie: I like your photos. They are cool.
From Ethan: Can't wait to see you guys.Sam soon we will both be 10 how exciting!!!
How on earth are you managing Phil, without having some renovation project underway! So if you're playing the house biarch, you must be cooking that hard working woman of yours some delicious dinners & rubbing her tired feet when she gets in from a day with all those pommy brats!
Paul is telling me that this is meant to be just a comment.....fat chance of that!! ..haha...he's rolling his eyes. Miss you Jacqui. Look after yourselves. Hi Sam, Ellie, Lara & Rosa. Love from us Morris' ...Paul, Sandy, Ethan & Shawnie xx
Hi Sam, Ellie, Lara & Rosa,
ReplyDeleteYou've done some really cool things so far! We liked the photos of the market and the plane museum - we didn't even know it was there. The museum of childhood looked really fun with the Punch and Judy puppet show. Looks like you're all having a great time and it's nice weather too!
Phil - you can write and sell volumes on 'Taking children in and around London to Interesting Places almost for Free' instead of writing for the Beeb - might make you a packet. Hope the teaching's going well Jacqui.
Nous esperons que vous avez un vacance fantastique en Paris pour l'anniversaire de Sam! (hope you have a great time in Paris for Sam's birthday!)
Love Lynda, Dave, Tom, Lucia & Grace
Dear Shawnie,
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely to hear from you.
We are going to Disneyland on Monday in Paris.
Lots of love Ellie
Dear Ellie,
ReplyDeleteOn Saturday we went to the zoo and there was a sausage sizzle because it was family day for Mum's work. On friday Khya came to my house and we played with the sylvanians and drew pictures. On saturday Ollie's cricket team won their game. I like cricket.
Next weekend I am going on the cub camp with Ollie, Mummy and Daddy.
Love from Grace