jestering and drumming

We are lucky to live not far from Sherwood Forest and regularly attended the NNSHEEP home ed meets there; and it was at the Robin Hood festival 2 years ago that Madi, having just appeared on stage as Maid Marian, announced her desire to take up archery.

This year however, we decided to take a break from crowds, or even company, and spent the day before the festival at Sherwood Forest, just the two of us together. It was not too busy, but things were already getting underway, and we spent a long while attempting to learn to juggle, diablo and spin plates...



...before looking around the visitor centre for the first time in many, many visits. We come here so often it's easy to overlook the exhibits, especially out with friends, so we pretended to be tourists and had some fun looking round and testing each other on the quiz questions...



..which made us think we'd give the trail with clues around the main routes through the forest, taking in information about the flora and fauna a go too...



...before an amazing afternoon session drumming.

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