Day 3 - Write Christmas lists

Here they are:

Day 2 - baking biscuits

Today P, E and myself went to the Cambridge Cookery school for one of their Parent/Child Swedish bakery courses where we cooked Uncle’s Cigars, Jitterbugs, Dreams and Lingonberry cake. It was so well organised and best of all was someone to do the clearing up afterwards!
The things we made were delicious, especially the Jitterbugs - an unusual combination of biscuit dough and meringue.

Day 1 - Mill Road Winter Fair and decorating the living room.

I went the Mill Road fair and brought lots of yummy goodies to share including gingerbread trees and 3 brownies of different flavours.

 The girls then set up the Christmas decorations.

 And they got some christmas chocolate.

I also caved into pressure and bought a chocolate advent calendar for each child, as well as one Poppy made at school full of good turns and 3 picture calendars and our challenge calendar!

Winterlights 2018

We went to the Winter Lights 2018 at Anglesey abbey, having booked tickets in July this year. As always, the silver birches were a highlight.

 There was a lot more colour changing lights this year.

 The fire dancers were very impressive.

 The lode looked beautiful.

Bonfire night

The husband, myself the E and P cycled in to town to watch the fireworks on Midsummer common. It was super busy - much busier than I remember. We kept a close eye on the girls - lucky no to lose them or for them to get stood on!

 We also had some candy floss whilst checking out the bonfire fire"

The Lodge

The husband and I went for walk around The Lodge. It is such a great place for an Autumn walk because there are so many different types of fungi there!  It is not huge and so took us a couple of hours to wander round.

 

New Scientist Live

We visited New Scientist Live at Excel London. It was super easy to get to - about an hour from Cambridge with parking being £20 all day. I held off buying tickets for a long time and was glad I did as I got 40%.

New Scientist Live is a four day fest of all things scientific; there are five different zones you can explore – cosmos, technology, engineering, earth and humans. Everything from a Mars rover prototype, robots and the Bloodhound to insects and glitter and jewellery & everything in between.  Except it isn't really. It was really all about technology.   Having said that we did have fun... I also spent a lot of time fighting with myself not to buy all the books and toys and products that were there that I was fascinated by – and only came home with a t shirt and some VR card games. 

We played computer games...

made slime...

checked if we fast we could run..

made kites...

flew kites....

held insects...

played super mario brothers...

checked out a VR drive in the bloodhound car...

 and I and the husband checked out some of the talks which were more scientific!  It was quite a fun day out and super easy to drive from Cambridge.