26/08/2017

THE WORLD'S MOST AMAZING ANIMAL

I tried to steer the conversation away from dead bodies, but TT was in full flow about the history of film.

'Of course,' he continued, 'the 1953 House of Wax was only a remake of the original Warner Brothers' 1933 flick, Mystery of the Wax Museum which starred Miss Fay Wray as the...'


He was interrupted by the arrival of a Text from The Bees. Wilson opened the message and frowned, then held out his phone to me. 


It appears that Honey Bees have been declared The World's Most Amazing Animal, and an lecture is being given about them at the ExCel Centre in London.


Polly and Billi want to attend, taking their two adopted children with them so they can 'learn about their rich and wonderful heritage'. Their children, Johnson Major and Johnson Minor, are actually ladybirds, but everyone is too nervous to ever mention this because, well... bees.


Anyway, the purpose of their message was to ask Wilson to buy lecture tickets on-line for the four of them on his (ie my) VISA Card.


Adult tickets are £26 and Child tickets £15, so it's going to cost £82 for the four of them – always assuming they don't insist on the VIP EXPERIENCE tickets at £50 each!


I think Wilson was a bit miffed to find that Anteaters were not voted the World's Most Amazing Animal...

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Click this link to learn about the lectures: https://tinyurl.com/y9wl4lae



25/08/2017

HOUSE OF WAX

Heading into the sand pit at the end of the exhibition, everyone decided to recreate the brilliant Drum Kit sculpture we'd just admired... but found it much more difficult than they expected.

Wilson quickly decided that the sand in the sand pit was 'obviously faulty' to make sand sculpting look harder than it really is, but Antony disagreed.


Explaining his ingenious theory, Antony said that the only way to make a sand sculpture of something as complex as a drum kit would be to take a real drum kit, and glue sand all over it.


Tiny Toy (who had buried himself in the sand for reasons unknown) stuck his head out and added, 'That's exactly what happened in the 1953 3D Horror Film House of Wax! The mad sculptor, Professor Jarrod, murdered people, covered them with wax, and put them in his Wax Museum – so you're probably right.'


After a moment's thought, Wilson concluded, 'So all the sand sculptures of people have probably got a dead body insi...'


At this point I quickly gathered everyone up and took them outside for an ice cream.




 Here's a little something for you to send to all your friends!

23/08/2017

DRUM KIT

On entering the Sand Sculpture Festival enclosure, the first thing everyone commented on was how HUGE the sculptures were... and how none of them were sand CASTLES!

Instead, there were sand people, sand animals, sand nursery-rhyme scenes, sand almost-anything-you-could-think-of.


Opinion as to which sculpture was 'Best' were divided, but everyone agreed that the little piglets feeding on their mummy was very funny (although arguably a bit rude for TT's young eyes) and that the Drum Kit was fabulous.


There was a suggestions box where visitors could suggest subjects for next year's Festival (guess what Wilson suggested!) and a sand pit where younger visitors could hone their sand-sculpting skills. 


I think that's where we'll be heading next.



21/08/2017

SAND SCULPTURE FESTIVAL

Following the excitement of last night's Indoor Sand Castle Building, over breakfast everyone voted to visit the Weston-super-Mare Sand Castle Festival.

They all formed an orderly queue at the entrance, and the atmosphere of excitement and anticipation was almost palpable. 


Almost as palpable as the sand blowing in the wind — is it never calm here?



20/08/2017

INDOOR SANDCASTLES

Although our visit to the beach had been brief, it was very windy, and a lot of sand had become trapped in Wilson's fur.

When we returned to our hotel room, he shook out a considerable amount of very fine sand onto the carpet.


'There's enough of this stuff to build a sand castle, New Dad!' he remarked, adding, 'I'm beginning to wish I hadn't left Antony and TT at home now...'


I slowly withdrew the aforementioned soft toys from my pocket. W's face lit up with pleasure, and soon they were all happily occupied building sand castles on the floor. 


I'm just a bit worried about what the Chamber Maid will make of all this mess in the morning. I expect they're used to it, but we'd better leave a good Tip all the same.


Before we settled down for the night, Wilson received a WhatsApp message from The Bees, reminding him that it was now exactly six months since Uncle Zoltan disappeared, and asking us both to keep a look out for him...