Spring ! Easter! in Et tu Brute? The ides of March must mean spring 2016!

The Easter holidays are upon us… and other such twaddley talk! We finished school on Thursday and started the holidays with a perfect day - bright sunshine, perfectly blue sky and temperatures peaking at 15C. Grabbing the bunny by the ears (the Easter version of bull and horns), we drove to Avebury - a very local Neolithic site - and found that the whole world had similar plans… However, being very local, we knew what to do - the public car park may be full but there are laybys all around the area so that people can gaze upon Silbury Hill, hunt the ancient burial mounds for bodies or even head off for a hike along the Ridgeway.

Parking away from the village meant that we approached through the avenue which is like a grand driveway, created by a pathway between the sacred stones.

The reason for our visit was a simple one - every Easter the National Trust create Easter hunts for the kids. For a mere £2.50 one can do a search, find the correct answers and be bestowed with a Cadbury bunny or egg (which would cost considerably less in a shop). We did the hunt in the lead up to lunch time and bumped into an old baby group friend who I hadn’t seen since L and her youngest were babies! It was lovely seeing her again - although neither of us uttered the words “we must get together again!” Sometimes I think friendships fizzle for a reason.

Once we had found out the Golden Hare’s name we used our National Trust membership to escape the madding crowds. National Trust properties are notoriously expensive to enter but we have membership, costing les than £100 per year, for the family. We had our picnic in the gardens and the girls consumed their bunnies. Rich and I lay on our borrowed, non-plastic-backed picnic blanket, the damp soaked through and we chilled. The girls played a game in which they had to retrieve both of their shoes and put them next to the blanket, but were only allowed to carry one shoe at a time. So as L brought her shoe, T could remove it before picking her own shoe up, and vice versa. It kept them occupied for ages.

You really don’t get a better start to the holidays than this!

Rain and wind has been the menú del día since then but we’ve still had fun - I cleared out Ls pit yesterday and put a bedroom in its place, I also created an egg hunt around the house last night.

Of course, the kittens are very interested in that!

It just leaves today to organise myself out of the bath and eat the choc before the kids notice… 😜

Oh, who am I kidding! Chocolate hunt and carnage, here we come!