DofE, Mother's Day, 39 Alice

I have no idea where the week's gone, studying takes a lot of time, evenings disappear into drawing, making, thinking, and writing about animators with intelligent comments. We had a good bronze practice DofE, the girls found it a little cold&wet. The tents turned into igloos overnight with frost, but it warmed up fast.

Sunday was Mother's Day, I hope no-one forgot/was forgotten. Our girls are very well trained, I got home to find extreme cookery going on. Hand-made ravioli with three different fillings and a garlic-lime-butter sauce, with salad, including avocado. For Pud we had RaspberryandApple crumble with ice-cream, roll on next year! Katie&Jamie joined us all so we had pink Katy cider.

Finally, yesterday was an expedition to London, starting a bit later than planned due to iPhone problems. L&A did fun things, I went to the rather disappointing Ray Harryhausen exhibition at the film museum, it was good to see his models but the whole thing looked as though it was done in a great rush and on a teeny budget.

The evening however was a triumph! Enjoli had got tickets for Alices-Adventures-in-Wonderland-Royal-Ballet-Covent-Garden, another New Thing, I've never been there, it was stunning, many brilliant costumes and fantastic use of technology in projected images. L&A wanted to keep the (human) hedgehogs as pets, as one might expect. It was Laura's first ballet, so we'll now find more. Thanks Enjoli!