The Easter bunny
Saturday and the Griswolds packed the car again, this time off to Lulworth Castle. The castle was built in the early 17th Century by Thomas Howard 3rd Lord Bindon (now that is a mouthful at a dinner party). Amazingly it was a hunting lodge built in order to entertain hunting parties (If this were their hunting lodge I would hate to see the main house!). Sadly the castle was gutted by a disastrous fire in 1929 and therefore only the exterior has been restored.
Not that the kids really had any interest in this. They were more interested in the easer egg hunt that was being held. Somewhere in the huge gardens and open fields there were 2 small gold disks hidden. Anyone extremely lucky enough to find one got a huge Easter egg. Luckily enough they also had lots more yellow discs hidden to claim a small egg. I don’t think I need to tell you that they kids did not come home with the big prize. Despite this it was a great day.
2 comments:
Quite the clever Historian James!! Glad you enjoyed the Stonehenge experience- the beginning of Druids (papa's Lodge).
I had feature letter published in Manly about, can you believe, a "seagull summit" the council conducted. Mr. Wong wants to erect feather dusters (his first idea of the hawks was laughed at). You can imagine what people are saying about the latest. The gulls all "come from Wollongong to be fed by the tourists in Manly" was one of the findings.
Funny what excites Councils and local media sometimes. A recent report in the local paper in the UK reported that "Police were after any reports of a stolen 10 year old push bike that was taken from the back of Mr Andrews yard". now that is news!
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