We spent a thoroughly enjoyable - if rather damp and windy - bank holiday weekend camping with 2 other families from Titchfield. We stayed on a farm in a field underneath the Uffington White Horse hill, in Oxfordshire.
Looking down on our campsite, with Sparkly Princess Cinderella visible bottom centre in the picture .....
The children all enjoyed playing many games together over the weekend, including swingball ....
.... football .....
.... and kite flying, as well as boules, racing, badminton, cops & robbers, hide & seek etc. Brodie became particularly proficient at kite flying and spent quite a bit of the weekend nonchalantly wandering around the campsite with his kite in tow, like some well-trained puppy! (the kite is just visible top left in the first pic) .....
Tess & Grace converted Cinderella's roof space into an artists' gallery .....
We went to the local pub for a drink, and were treated to an aerobatics display by 2 biplanes, with wingwalkers on top (just about visible in the 2nd pic) .....
We went for some fairly long walks (for Tess & Brodie ...... ok, and for Carole & Rob, based on recent activity levels!!!). On Sunday, we did a loop through the countryside near the village of Lambourn, known for the number of racehorse stables nearby. Luckily by this time, Tess & Brodie had become firm friends with Ali and Murray and adopted one boy each to accompany them on the walk ......
Brodie also helped to up the pace, by challenging everyone in turn to a race .....
We timed the walk to end up back in the village in time for their annual carnival, which had plenty of horsey themes ......
On the Monday, we headed up the hill to find the White Horse ......
Next to the White Horse (our camping field is just visible - the green patch just over the brow of the hill centre right of the picture, beneath the large brown field) ......
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