The first week of our summer holiday this year was spent camping at Warwick School with about 900 other people for Leading Edge. Leading Edge is a week long event organised by the Baptist Union and Viz-a-Viz - who run an excellent children's programme for the whole week. The children had activities every morning, whilst there were Bible Studies and seminars for the adults; a variety of activities were arranged in the afternoons; and in the evenings there were celebration events. Here are a few photos from the week.
On one of the afternoons we went along to an African Drumming session - which the girls really enjoyed.
Thursday was left free all day so we took the chance to visit Warwick Castle (courtesy of Mr Tesco). Here R, A and I are about to begin the ascent of the tower - the carrier only got stuck once on the narrow spiral staircase. I think it was 530 steps.
This huge device is the Trebuchet. Here it has just been fired - you can see the fire ball on the left which will shortly be flung into the air as the arm comes over. To give you some idea of the size - the wheel at the base of the device is like a large hamster wheel - two men get it to the one this side, and two the other (the wheels are not quite twice the height of a man) and they run, making the wheels turn, which tightens the rope pulling the arm back.
Here S is trying to get her hands on someone's cream tea.
There's no way that sword is coming out
We don't normally trust S with a pair of scissors.
Warwick Castle - a great day out - worth a visit if you're in the area - and you can use Tesco vouchers to get in for 1/4 of the normal price.
Here the girls are pretending to drive a steam train at the South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh.
Aboard the train for the trip to Totnes and back.
And if you wondered how we managed to get all the camping stuff and everything else and everyone else in the car...
Whoever said camping was about travelling light!
...making masks from paper plates...
and singing.
On one of the afternoons we went along to an African Drumming session - which the girls really enjoyed.
Thursday was left free all day so we took the chance to visit Warwick Castle (courtesy of Mr Tesco). Here R, A and I are about to begin the ascent of the tower - the carrier only got stuck once on the narrow spiral staircase. I think it was 530 steps.
This huge device is the Trebuchet. Here it has just been fired - you can see the fire ball on the left which will shortly be flung into the air as the arm comes over. To give you some idea of the size - the wheel at the base of the device is like a large hamster wheel - two men get it to the one this side, and two the other (the wheels are not quite twice the height of a man) and they run, making the wheels turn, which tightens the rope pulling the arm back.
Here S is trying to get her hands on someone's cream tea.
There's no way that sword is coming out
We don't normally trust S with a pair of scissors.