Thought for the week ...

Hever Castle in the rain!

Yesterday eight of us drove to Hever Castle in torrential rain ⛆☔⛆☔⛆☔

Niduka, Vinuli, Emeka, Sushmitha, Me, Jon, Pauline & Jeff

After a warm-up drink and despite the poor weather conditions, we were all determined to make the very best of our day 😀

Hever Castle was home to Anne Boleyn who was the second wife of King Henry VIII.  Henry had six wives and none of them fared all that well ...

Katherine of Aragon  -  Divorced

Anne Boleyn  -  Beheaded

Jane Seymour  -  Died

Anne of Cleaves  -  Divorced

Katherine Howard  -  Beheaded

Katherine Parr  -  Survived

It isn't a big castle, more like a stately home really, but it's very beautiful and the tapestries, cornicing and wooden carving are incredible.

 

The grounds of the castle are beautiful and the gardens were in full bloom

Both Jon and Emeka tried their hand at archery (in the rain) and we got to eat, and share, our lunch in the archery tent (in the dry).

The highlight of the event was the jousting display, and guess what  ...  it stopped raining!!!  My main concern was that the jousting would be cancelled.

It's not every day you get to meet a King!!

A VERY BIG THANK YOU
to everyone who came,
especially to Jon who helped with driving!

Thought for the week ...

Sticks & Stones Festival

On Saturday, myself, Sushmitha, Vinuli, Abi, Desh, Christina, Alick, plus Chanaka and his family, all enjoyed several hours hanging out at the Sticks & Stones Festival on campus. The weather was perfect and time was spent exploring the stalls, holding snakes, getting crafty, listening to music, having a go at the climbing wall (not me!!), eating ice cream (yes, me!).

 

 

I hope Sachini didn't get
left here for too long!

Some excellent art work by Sayumlee 💕

I do so love our student community!
Abi & Desh really wanted to try the climbing
wall but they were both wearing croc sandals 😞
However, Chanaka & Sachini were willing to
switch shoes for half an hour!!

Abi was surprised by the amount and variety of information and entertainment. She phoned around her friends to say, "COME!"   She also said,

"Thank you for taking us to this event, I really enjoyed everything there. It was beyond my expectations. I enjoyed playing netball, it was so much fun. Even though I missed the face-painting (the queue was too long) I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for the icecream, for making us climb!! For the shoe swop!!  And the very best part was a FREE bike 🚴"

Vinuli said, "For a moment I was living again my childhood days!  This event brought a lot of adventurous moments and a first-time experience, like touching a real snake. Very cool event!"