We had all four granddaughters and their parents stopping over last weekend. The main objective of the weekend was a trip to Curve theatre to see a performance of “Frozen-with-extras”, the hit Disney film, but in this case with pre-film entertainment, a “goody bag”, and, most importantly, singalong words displayed on the screen. It was my own fault. I spotted the event in the Curve brochure, and suggested to Chantal that all of the girls would love it. I had visions of a weekend with my granddaughters, but with an evening of peace and quiet on Saturday night while Granny took the girls to Curve. Granny had other ideas and bought me a ticket too. Chris and Lucy went to the cinema, but Claire and Si joined us.
The pre-film entertainment was, well, entertaining, but I got a bit confused during the first few minutes of the film, failing to follow quite how the main character froze every person she touched, and I was spotted briefly snoozing, but there are times when one must just accept the magic, and once prodded awake, I enjoyed the “where-has-Princess-Elsa-run-away-to? We-must-rescue-her”” plot, and even found myself shouting to encourage Sven-the-reindeer to run faster. The girls all enjoyed themselves – all four had dressed up as one of the two princesses, as did all the other girls of the same ages in the audience, and I had concerns that we might lose ours amongst the all of the others. Nevertheless we managed to get all four tired girls home safely.
Sunday dawned very wet, and a family dog walk was abandoned in favour of a couple, of hours at Leicester’s New Walk museum, via Sainsbury’s coffee shop and Pets-at-Home since the museum didn’t open until 11am. The museum was surprisingly child friendly, with an opportunity to crawl through tunnels to pop up in the middle of a display.
We returned home for a family lunch, collecting Andree on the way. As sometimes happens on such occasions the kitchen table overflowed with guests, and a garden table was brought into service for the girls.
By afternoon the sun came out, and we managed a local dog walk around Croft Hill and quarry, although only Lucy and me managed a full circuit! We finished the day by toasting marshmallows around our fire pit before the Hampshire Tilley’s headed home. Claire, Si, Bess and Florence stayed for an additional night, leaving to have lunch with friends on their way home.
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Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
