Easter Egg Hunting

I took the girls to Hughenden Manor in High Wycombe today, http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hughendenmanor/ the home of Benjamnin Disraeli. I've never actually been in the house, I'm always worried that one of the girls will knock a very expensive vase off a shelf or something, but the gardens are really beautiful, the panies and tuilips were really wonderful to see. Today they had an Easter Egg hunt - we went around the gardens and had to answer various questions about birds and eggs and once we had answered them all correctly we were rewarded with a bag of mini Easter eggs each. Isabella and Claudia seemed more interested in rolling down the various slopes in the gardens and seeing how many grass stains they could get on their clothes than answering questions so I kept reminding them that at the end they would get some Easter eggs and that seemed to spur them on. They also made a small birds nest out of twigs and bits of material and had their faces painted. On the way home we stopped off at the park so all in all a fun day.

Jason surprised me by getting home just after seven o'clock tonight (he is never usually home that early) it was great because the girls hadn't quite gone to bed and they were really excited to see Daddy. As it was still light, (how I love these light evenings) I took the opportunity to take Oscar for a quick walk around the village and how lovely it was to see sheep in the meadow, although I had to make sure that I didn't take Oscar of the lead as I think he quite fancied a sheep for dinner!