Normanby Hall

When we went to Normanby Hall, we looked at the peacock laying an egg.  I saw the egg and I wanted to collect it.  I said to Liesl, "I want to collect that egg" and Liesl said, "What egg?" and I said "That peacock egg".  We went and saw some ducks, and a park, so we decided to play on it.  We played and played and played while Mum and Dad were talking to the rest of the home ed group.  Then we went along more.  We stopped and we looked in a house.  It had a stuffed reindeer in and we felt it.  We went into a BIG hall.  We looked inside it and it looked like olden days.  The walls were made of pure silk, and I felt what everything was made of, and it was all made of wood.  There were some big chandeliers, so we decided to look closely at them and we saw the bulbs in them.  We went up the stairs and they were massive like in the Sound of Music, and there were two staircases which met in the middle.  Upstairs, we saw this girl who looked like a statue but she said "Hello!" to us so we knew she was real.

We saw lots of tiny see-through cupboards that lots of tiny wooden toy animals in it, and looked at all the clothes.  They had things where you tied a ribbon around the back to make yourself thin and some big puffing-out skirts.  Emily said one of the clothes looked like Hamlet's clothes.  We went out fo the room and saw a bed and we looked at it carefully and felt it.  We didn't know what it was made of, so went out of the hall and looked.  We played back in the park then had a look in the shops at everything and then we went back and played more in the fields.  We saw a duckpond so we ran to it and looked in it and saw thousands of ducks and one was white, plain white.  We had a careful look at it and its beak wasn't white it was orange.  All the ducks kept flicking their heads into the water to do handstands.  When they had finished they flew over our heads and then I climbed yup a tree and I sat on it with no hands at all.  Dad said we're going to move on now so come on please.  We saw some horses - they were wild horses.  I wanted to feed one but Dad said no because we don't own them and because we haven't asked.