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Thursday, 21 April 2005
playpark!
On my last day off before - oh the strain - three days of work, we took advantage of a sunny afternoon to go to the park. There are quite a few to choose from in Luton, but we opted for Wardown Park, which has recently had a complete refurbishment of the children's play area. As well as the ever-reliable Wicksteed equipment, they had some new kit from Sutcliffe; most unusual was an activity just inside the gate, where you wind a handle six times, and when you hear a sound, you shout into it, and it 'talks back' with a silly voice (either sped up, slowed down or backwards). I have, of course, tried to Google it, but I've clearly been typing the wrong words in!
Christopher really enjoyed running around with the other children (he's a very sociable young man, and he had two little girls running after him for much of the time - even when he was tired and pretending to sleep on a bench!) and Ella loved to zip excitedly from one item to another.
Beth's taking the children to Woodside today, to meet up with another home educating family. It's a shame I can't enjoy the warm day with them, but hopefully there'll be another opportunity; I still have a number of contacts to make for home-ed groups around Luton - it certainly makes us feel much less isolated.
Links of the day:
- maps.google.co.uk : Yet another string to Google's bow - this time an interactive map of the UK.
- 193.151.73.87/games/lemmings : a web-based version of the classic game "Lemmings" (it needs quite a powerful PC to work, though)
- www.unit.org.uk : The Official website of U.N.I.T. - the bunch of army men who appear in Doctor Who (mainly the third regeneration, but there are a couple of episodes this series about it). A personal favourite is in the publications section, which advertises a document (or possibly pamphlet)
UTE-18 - "But what has happened to Luton?" Coping with common press enquiries
(thanks, Pete!)
Posted by james at April 21, 2005 8:53 AM
Comments
Oh, I love reading this, as you take your kids to all the places I used to go to!
I'm appalled that they've redone WarDown Park, tho?! Please don't say the train's gone....I loved that....
Your link to the U.N.I.T site - did you manage to launce the missile? It's not worth it, but I stll felt vaguely chuffed...!
Posted by: Liz at April 28, 2005 4:21 AM
