For the weekend, we went to a hotel with Andy, Mummy, Tilly and me which was in Suffolk, where our daddy lives. And because he lives there, we aranged to meet him the next day. But first:
We then went to Felixstowe Beach. We drew a town called T&L Town in the sand. Then I went to talk to Mummy and Andy came and helped Tilly. He made paths and drew stone-brick patterens on it so that if people didn't want to go round it, they could walk through the path without getting their muddy, horrible shoe-prints on T&L Town. Then I came back and drew some hills and me and Tilly drew a sun in a corner. We both looked like this in the end.
Then we went to the arcades. Mummy gave us 50p for us and Andy to share, and we split it into 10p, 20p and last but hopefully not least, 20p. We split them into 2ps. We won some more coins and we got then some chips and ketchup. We stuffed it all in and went to find some twisty-turny shells and stones in between the rocks on the beach.
We parked in Lavenham, which appeared to be 800 years old! It was very pretty. There were black and white striped shops and houses, pink and green ones, red ones, blue ones, all different colours. The door of one house had a lion with a flappy bottom jaw for a door-knocker. In the antique shops and gift shops there were cards, china dolls and tea-sets, little cakes and muffins, all sorts. Me and Tilly kept pointing at almost everything and sayinng it was victorian – cars, shops, windows, houses, everything we saw (pretty much)…
Then we found the carpark and drove off to…Where Mummy used to live. We saw her house (not inside it, for somebody was mowing the lawn so someone had to live there) and her bedroom and she told us that Auntie Beci and Uncle Paul slept at the back, and Mummy had a tiny room at the front and so did Nanny and Grandad.
Then she showed us the school she went to. She said, "That old school didn't teach you any work whatsoever – not even reading or typing or writing, hardly even fun! All they did was boring phonics – a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i…No it is not phonics you should be learning, no no no!" So Mummy and her friend used to sneak out to the park instead and go to the chip shop and eat chips and cherry coke and climb over the railings and go exploring and climb up onto the hay bales on the farmer's field and climb in and out of the school windows! Then she showed her friend Leeanne's house who she used to do all this with. She was just talking about her when a 'beep, beeep, bee beep!' noise came. Mummy turned round and there was a small car beeping at her! "Is that…" she spluttered, "Why, it's Leeanne! Hey, Leeanne, I was just showing my kids your house!" "Oh, how lovely! This is my little boy, Cameron." Cameron smiled in the back of the car. "I see, hello Cameron! You must be the same age as my daughter, Lavinia! How are you?"
Then she showed us all the antique shops and chip shops that she used to go to. Then we went to see if ASDA was open and while we were looking Tilly said, "Look, look Lavinia!" And there stood a mummy duck followed by eight little ducklings having a nice little stroll around ASDA car park!
Then Mummy showed us the park she went to. She said there was a little hollow tree (and it was round the corner from where mummy lived) and it was still there! So we climbed it. There was a little hole in it, quite a big one, and she used to climb up it and come out the other end! She'd be at the highest part of the tree, and the she would jump! 3, 2, 1, GOOOO!!!
Then we went to the hotel in a Premier Inn. The lady at the desk said that Matilda looked exactly like her granddaughter, then she told us what room we needed to go to (307) and gave us the scan-card. We got up into our room and straight away got under my bed! We had secret chats and meetings.
Then we went to CHIMICHANGA for a Mexican dinner. We had sour cream, mashed avacado and Oh-my-word-I-simply-can't-remember-it-was-so-nice! For pudding we had chocolate ice-cream. By the way, CHIMICHANGA in red and green really is their logo, OKAY?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
We read our nooks till bed time, but Andy and Mummy had Whipsnade Zoo on the telly, and mummy tried to turn it down, but she thought it wouldn't go any further, and Andy tricked her into that.
After our fry-up for breakfast, we headed to Framlingham Castle. We first sat down and saw King John (most definitely and obviously not the real one and real soldiers, because he died of I-hate-him-ness 26498008876756545years ago, so ha) fight the Framlinghams to get the castle. Then we climbed up some winding stairs and walked across some long bridges at the top.
In the middle their was a museum. They had dial phones, victorian found purses and even type-writers. It was amazing.
Then me and Tilly queued up for the children's battle. We were given foam swords and I stabbed almost everybody in fight. I got Matilda twice, 5 boys and 8 girls. Then I shouted, "VICTORY! All hail the last person standing: ME!" Then I ran over to Andy and stabbed him in the bum. That's a man added to the list. Ha!
FINALLY GOODBYE!