They had decorated branches of twisted beech outside the main entrance, with painted eggs made by the children from Matthew's school. This is one side...
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... and here's Matthew on the other side. There were several other places in the grounds where more eggs were hung up, but we didn't manage to find the one Matthew had decorated!
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Matthew looks at another tree full of decorated eggs
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Reading the egg hunt clue under the tree (there were 10 clues altogether, they were quite tricky but Matthew worked them all out in the end, and won a chocolate egg for his troubles.
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A few of the decorated eggs.
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After the end of the egg hunt we made a raft for the raft race. This is Matthew's first entry. Note the googly eyes on the sail and the name (LAEMER, chosen by Matthew for reasons I do not understand!)
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Here you can see our egg riding in the raft, wearing a green milk bottle top hat. We had stuck corks around the edges of the raft for floatation and put sand inside to weight it evenly.
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The nice man on the platform in the lode lowers our raft (on the left) and another competitior into the water. He made a lot of egg-related puns. Egg-cellent.
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Off goes our raft, nice and fast!
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Our raft is beating the other one!
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It wasn't really a race as such - you got a prize if your raft reached the finish line intact. Ours was doing very well...
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... until it suddenly capsized. Luckily another nice man with a fishing net was on hand to haul it out so we could re-engineer it and have another go.
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