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Me and my friend Dobby

This week I went to Play Rangers. We played football, went on a scavenger hunt and had a campfire and a tent. I know Poppy, who is the leader of the group and she gave me lots of cuddles by the fire.

I want to go again, but it’s on at the same night as Brownies. Mummy said for the next few weeks she will let me go to play rangers for an hour and a half, pick me up and take me to Brownies and then I can choose which one I want to keep going to.

I think I prefer play rangers. The thing is, I don’t know if there is Play Rangers in the Winter because it is outside and it is a charity with something called Lottery Money so Mummy said that maybe one day, it might stop happening, but I think Brownies will keep going for ever.

I get a bit bored at Brownies because there is lots of talking and we don’t go outside much. I like being outside most of all. But I do like Brownies camps and seeing my friends.

This is a picture of me with my horse, Dobby.

Queen Victoria

I asked Mummy to teach me about the Victorians. I like to hear about the olden days. The Victorians were from 1837 until 1901 and they are called the Victorians because Queen Victoria ruled the country.

Until she was Queen, most children had to work as servant girls, in coal mines or up chimneys instead of going to school. I thought I would like that, but then Mummy said they usually worked long hours and didn’t get much time to talk and play.

We talked about the food they might eat. I thought they would eat toast done under the grill, but Mummy said they didn’t have cookers like ours, they had ranges like our woodburner. They used candles and gas lamps and played the piano and made their own toys.

They didn’t have toilets like we do and some grown ups wee’d in big pottys that the servants had to empty. I wouldn’t like to be the servant girl who had that job!

We talked about the clothes too. I would like to wear a long dress and an apron with boots with a hat. I think that would look nice. I want to learn lots more about them - they invented lots of things like flushing toilets, the car, light bulbs and the telephone.

Making friends around the camp fire

ast weekend was Mummy’s Birthday. We went to the Dean Field Studies centre, where some of Mummy’s friends were staying.

There were 48 of us! The youngest baby was 6 weeks old and the oldest boy was 14. We played football, had a barbecue, played hide and seek and had a campfire. The grown ups sat around and talked and we got to play as much as we wanted.

There was lots of food and a great big fire to keep us warm. I made some special new friends and am going to write to some of them because they live a long way away.

At the end of the evening I swung on a gate; it was lots of fun and when we came home I fell asleep right away.

Mummy took presents for all the children and I gave them out like Father Christmas. I liked doing that and watching everyone open their present. Mummy said the best way she could celebrate her Birthday was to give presents to everyone else. She wrapped 28 of them in newspaper and we burned the paper on our big fire!