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Date: 15 August 2005 14:58:01
M and I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Saturday night...... without the children :D
Oooh, now that was a treat! We indulged in a bar of chocolate each, of course.. though not the Nestle Wonka Bars because we do have some morals.
We told the children and the babysitter that we were going out to a nightclub to pick up a couple of blokes and get drunk and dance the night away... I think they were less shocked than they would have been by the truth! And all yesterday she and I had great fun making obscure references to the film that the children wouldn't pick up on. Mwahahahahaha!
We did manage a trip out to Culver Cliff in the afternoon. Great fun sitting in the car watching the Smudgelets frantically try to get the kite flying. We decided, as an exercise in independence, not to give them any assistance as it was perfect kite-flying weather and up on the downs gives you an unsheltered environment just right for kites. If they couldn't get it going there, they never would.
They didn't.
Mind you, it probably didn 't help that at one point we observed Smudgelet running with the string flowing out behind him... and the wind at his back! Tiddles was running with the kite,.... in the same direction and just a little bit faster than Smudgelet!!! I suppose, given the wind direction, it might ultimately have worked once Tiddles overtook his brother :D
Then back to a choice between the pub and the cafe for tea. It was just 5.15 on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in a popular spot in the height of the tourist season... so of course, the pub was shut from 3 until 6.30. Not good. Next we tried the cafe. That closed at 5, of course... and they'd turned off all their cooking equipment too. They were very kind, though - they provided us with massive mugs of tea or coffee and toasted us some teacakes to keep us going until we could find somewhere open. We did find somewhere open - Smudgie Towers, where the kettle is always boiling and you can curl up in front of the muppet movie and eat mountains of toast and chocolate spread. MMMMMmmmmmm.