Spent a lot of the day preparing. We visited Ben, Erin and Elizabeth to collect cardboard and wood so they wouldn't have to carry it later. The action started at 5, when Erin arrived. The JoniBobs, Ben, Elizabeth and Poppy (with an unexpected Ruby) rapidly filled my castle, and then we proceeded to fill it with all my toys - so much that we couldn't get in and had to empty it again.
While we were busy in the castle, the adults were outside burning vast amounts of wood and cardboard and consuming vast amounts of beer and wine. At one point they bundled us off to the front room to watch Toy Story 3 which would have been fine if any of us could actually keep still for that long. We sent a constant stream of scouts out to the garden with spurious requests ("I'm thirsty/I've spilt my drink all over Bud's chair again/Ben won't let me play with his light sabre") to make sure they hadn't forgotten us.  |
| Frightened of crabs? Then have a massive one pinch your neck |
There were about 10 boxes of fireworks and one by one we set them off or put them on the bonfire. Bud did his silly trick of pushing a rocket stick too far into the ground so it couldn't take off and
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| Fire in the hole, Mummy |
just exploded in the flowerbed: we all witnessed Bensdad's giant 4ft rocket with the double bang apart from Ben who reckoned it had gone behind a house and wanted to set it off again. Bob and Liz weren't overly keen on the fireworks but in the end we all got sparklers and let off nearly 100 party poppers.
Meanwhile the adults were getting sillier and sillier, putting the enormous wicker chair and John's table on the fire until it all stuck out of the top. To be honest, although we were little terrors half the time I think it's the grownups who should go and sit on the naughty step, one of them fell off his chair and they all laughed at us. I did my secret mission and brought downstairs the 3 giant comedy buttons and 2 giant crabs that Bud had cut out from bits of cardboard and then we all laughed at the people that are scared of buttons.
In the end it just got too much and they all went one by one, Elizabeth (the youngest) was last to go at about 1145. I hit the sack at about 10 past midnight: Bud and Jof did some tidying and washing up: Bud got to bed at 2.
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| Castle for sale. Annexe, skylight, flags, own digger |
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| Fits 8 comfortably, recyclable |
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