Happy Easter

[Diane CBPFC]

Two out of three of my adult children will be coming home this weekend, of course I still buy them chocolate bunnies (the other kid got hers last weekend when she visited). Nobody has ever said "I'm too old for a chocolate bunny". 

Things are just not warming up here this year, but the skies are blue and the sun is strong, the real rabbits are still in their white coats.

Wishing you all a great weekend and hope you get to see fluffy lambs and primroses.

[Roger Kettle]

And a Happy Easter to you, too, Diane!
My kids are also coming over for lunch on Sunday---plus my granddaughter. The latter is here today as my daughter has gone back to work and we look after the little one a couple of days a week. It begins...

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Happy Easter, all!

I've spent the past 24 hours with Daughter No3 coming to visit along with Grandkids 3&4. Joined yesterday by Daughter No1 and Grandkids 1&2. Absolutely the best fun, but tonight I get to put my feet up and chill, before heading off for a trip to Scotland's 'Secret Bunker' tomorrow to soak up the ambience of nuclear warfare and how to survive it, with Daughter No1 and Grandkids 1&2. My 9-year-old Grandson is really looking forward to it (perhaps too much) as am I, having visited the Hack Green Secret Bunker in Shropshire a few years back. Fascinating place! I never fail to smile when I pass by a road sign pointing to a "SECRET BUNKER". The perfect Easter outing!

[Diane CBPFC]

That is so cool that you get your granddaughter a couple of days a week, she will really get to know you both.

Glad you are having lots of fun with your grandkids Tarqs - the secret bunker sounds fun, I wonder if hidden eggs will be part of their program this weekend?  I recently read Ken Follet's "Never" it is about bunkers and such, it is a bit of a worry as he researches things in such detail.   

[Roger Kettle]

I read Tiger Woods' biography recently and there were quite a few bunkers in that.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

The Secret Bunker was excellent, and well worth the trip (have you been, Roger? Not too far from you). Much bigger and better maintained than the Hack Green one I visited down south (although that one had 'cuddly' mice... may have been rats... in the displays for the kids to tick off on a list - no Easter eggs yesterday, sadly, which would have been a brilliant idea). Absolutely fascinating place, and very sobering to find out it had only ceased functioning as a potential attack shelter 30 years ago (no doubt there are bigger and better replacements dotted around the UK).

A great place for reflection and prioritising, for people of my vintage especially I think, but the kids really enjoyed it too (far more than I expected or hoped). I particularly enjoyed meeting the bunker cat, who was very sociable and cute. It wasn't until we were leaving that we actually noticed the cat flaps on several underground doors. My daughter made me laugh by suggesting they should have had one fitted in the massive red-painted 3-ton blast doors at the foot of the entrance to the bunker.

[Diane CBPFC]

That does sound like a great day out for kids, will give them something to think about for sure and maybe even write about in a school project. Glad you enjoyed it too Tarqs.

My boys and I played a card game of Bohnanza, formerly called Bean Bohnanza I believe. Anyway its good for a laugh and is only ages 8+

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

So, is it over? Can I come out of the bunker now?

[Diane CBPFC]

So, is it over? Can I come out of the bunker now?

hard to say, who's looking for you? 

We are now in spring mode, only about 10% snow left in shady places, bunnies are turning brown and I'm starting seeds indoors :-) 

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

hard to say, who's looking for you? 

No-one... sadly.

[Diane CBPFC]

hard to say, who's looking for you? 

No-one... sadly.

You should buy one of those Babe Magnets next time Honest Abdul is having a sale.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I did. The batteries lasted three days.