The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

"The Lion"

May 12th 2010

Now those of you hoping for a re-imagining of CS Lewis's classic tale will be sorely disappointed, but there again I can't imagine you come and read this blog for its literary content can I? lol. But our journey will give you a lion, a witch and a wardrobe. So today it was the turn of Dunstall to look after us for the day. It is a standing joke in the village that when you are invited to the "White Lion" you think you are going to a pub, but it turns out to be (rather disappointingly if you wanted a beer) a water fountain for the Queens jubilee. Now we know that

"The witch" Boy I'm going to get into trouble for this one!

Queen Elizabeth 2 is old, but we didn't know she had been around since 1887? Bit of an odd menmorial, as its just broken bits of rock and bricks put together...couldn't the queen afford a little bit better? Perhaps its this recession everyone is talking about these days? The colour of the water is green...and believe it or not this was the only water source for the village until 1954...which explains a few things about the locals!!! Our journey today started by Dunstall Hall, in the grounds of the estate. We arrived and there were 2 people standing by a post, they got into their car as we got out....but then as we walked to the post they got out again and

A wardrobe...happy now?

identified themselves as geocachers! Hooray...after a near miss on Monday we finally meet some geocachers on our travels. The couple were "Norfolk Dumplings 70". So after a very pleasant chat with them we parted company as they were heading in the opposite direction. But this was a good start to the day....actually we started off doing a couple of cache and dashes on the way...but hey why let the facts get in the way of a good story. As we walked down the road and up the path...we saw lots of lots of lambs...made team Shiltonpig hungry, all they could think of was mint sauce....evil laugh! However in a field full of hundreds, thousands, millions of sheep (or felt like it with the amount of poo on the ground) we saw one black sheep out of all the white. We immediately identified with it...after all nobody

wants team Shiltonpig (sniff sniff...blows his nose in a hanky). Anyway today was full of showers...and just at the wrong time Josh decided he wanted to fall asleep, so we had to wrap him up in all our coats and put him under a tree....he looks so cute...however Mr and Mrs Shiltonpig shivered and shivered so much that they went blue. Is this May or is this December...at night....snowing? The weather is miserable at the moment. (You can tell I'm British can't you?, moaning about the weather). Then to top it all off, we got big time lost in the fields, now this may seem impossible with a gpsr. However team

Ribbet...croak...ribbet

Shiltonpig always seem to rewrite the rule book, we ended up wandering around 1000 fields before we finally found the right place to go....a bigger miracle is that we found all the caches today....rather than our usual, failing to find one. Countryside like it should be...(tears start welling up inside at the pride of calling this country home...). Oh and for you non-believers out there, we have proof that our tadpoles are alive and well...plus 3 or 4 of them are starting to form legs...