We have come to the end of the school half term week and as a result we have seen much of our Grandchildren. By Thursday the kids were beginning to get bored, after all, you can only sit playing with your Nintendo DS for so many days, can't you?
The recent snow had all disappeared and the days were a little warmer so it was time for some adventure. I got the kids to put on their wellies and coats and off we set to find it. We trekked across the adjacent field to the copse at the top of the hill. This was soon to become our desert island. Now this island was inhabited by cannibals and we needed shelter and somewhere to sleep. Out came the "Swiss Army" knife and with the help of my shipwrecked crew we began to gather the materials for building our "Den".
The crew worked like bees and in no time we were constructing our shelter. We heard the call of a buzzard as it sored close by, "Is that a buzzard Grandpa" one said. "No" said I "That's a vulture, it's looking for the bones that the cannibals have left after eating their dinner". "We need a look out, so that we can see if they are coming this way" I said. There was a bit of a scramble to see who could get up the tree the fastest. I won, but was quickly joined by the rest, no one wanted to be left on the ground if the cannibals came. All was quiet and the vulture went further afield. Gingerly we came down from the look out tower and resumed the building of the den. In no time the daylight began to fade and it was time to return to the real world of the Nintendo DS and DVD's. We trekked back down the hill and across the field where we dumped the wellies and had pancakes for tea.
The crew worked like bees and in no time we were constructing our shelter. We heard the call of a buzzard as it sored close by, "Is that a buzzard Grandpa" one said. "No" said I "That's a vulture, it's looking for the bones that the cannibals have left after eating their dinner". "We need a look out, so that we can see if they are coming this way" I said. There was a bit of a scramble to see who could get up the tree the fastest. I won, but was quickly joined by the rest, no one wanted to be left on the ground if the cannibals came. All was quiet and the vulture went further afield. Gingerly we came down from the look out tower and resumed the building of the den. In no time the daylight began to fade and it was time to return to the real world of the Nintendo DS and DVD's. We trekked back down the hill and across the field where we dumped the wellies and had pancakes for tea. 
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