After church yesterday, we decided to get out in the afternoon to let the kids have a run around and get some fresh air. We went off to Fellfoot, a National Trust park on the side of Lake Windermere where there is plenty of space to run and a play park with a zip wire. The kids had great fun and spent most of the time climbing the huge overgrown Rhodedendrons (probably spelt that completely wrong!) pretending to be monkeys (did I say pretending???). These make a fantastic natural play area.

Today we had a morning at home doing secret messages with wax crayons, paint, lemon and water. Then Eilidh decided she wanted to do some more of her collage she had started at art group so all the scraps and ribbons came out. Then they made some pictures with pasta, lentils and seeds which they both got on with. By that time I had run out of ideas which were easy to get hold of in our mess of a house so Ben went onto one of his Cd Roms and Eilidh helped make lunch.

This afternoon we decided to make good use of our National Trust membership and got off to Sizergh Castle to have a look around. Unfortunately I hadn't checked to see if it was open, which of course it wasn't!! Never mind, we went to Sizergh Barn Farm Shop instead and had a good look around. They sell loads of lovely food, local crafts and other bits and they also have a farm trail which you can walk around. We followed the farm trail, which was a really nice walk through fields, by streams, and through some woods and had a look at some of the cows and then headed home. Unfortunately we didn't have any money to go to the cafe where you can watch the cows being milked through a huge glass window but I promised the kids we would come back another time.