Lewes Castle was great! I had to drag them all away in the end otherwise we were going to get snarled in the homeward bound rush hour and Petal had a ballet lesson at five.
I was slightly confused as to why the workshops were Saxon based when the Castle is Norman built but the attached museum does cover from the Neolithic up, finds from all over Sussex, and the workshops were excellent. We tried drop spindle spinning, handled Saxon weaponry and jewelry and enacted bits of Beowulf. A good time was had by all, particularly Hoof who had a whale of a time being an archer. Fluff was half of Grendel and the girls limpeted to me and were audience. Wasn't surprised that Petal did that, was slightly surprised that Dot did too but I'm sure they still got lots out of it. I, of course, got stuck in and was part of the Queen's hall. (Yes we had a Queen instead of a King.)
We also got plenty of exercise, parking out of the paying zone and walking down and therefore up a slope on the way back to the car. There were also one hundred and eight steps from the bottom to the top of the tallest tower and we did it twice, plus probably about a hundred steps in the second tower that we did once as well. Hoof loved going to the tops of the towers, all our quads got a good work out.
The journey was fine both ways, it was windy but we also got some sun and we used a double treadle spinning wheel in the afternoon. There were plenty of nice flowers and trees to spot on the walk and we had an interesting discussion about the prison. In the evening we all slumped on the sofa and watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and I sobbed my way through the last ten minutes as expected.
Saurus pulled all the stops on out being helpful today, he picked up the nephew that has just started school round the corner and is on half days (so we're helping out) and looked after him until we got back, he took Petal to her ballet as I was exhausted and, along with Roo and Wig, he even vacced- hoorah!
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