It is twenty years since the museum moved into the old school. Today as a small celebration we had old Austin Cars outside, Face painting (for kids!), a World War 2 group with lots of stuff, spider making for kids and other activities likely to bring in the punters. Over two hundred wandered through.
My day was spent rushing around obeying orders or talking to a variety of people about history, or children! Do you understand how difficult it is to blow up balloons and attach them to a stick? I do now!!! All the high heid yins turned up for the presentation at the end, when we had chucked the public out, and cake and imitation champagne was the order of the day. However I ended up washing the glasses once again. Just where do the women disappear to when washing up time comes around?
An Air Raid Warden on Duty.
Watching the man turn balloons into a variety of shapes for the kids was a great experience. Stupidly I forgot to take pictures of them as their faces were brilliant! He and I wandered the streets giving out leaflets and offering such balloon creations to whoever wanted them. No better way to disrupt the street market on a busy Saturday! Now my feet and all else are killing me and I have tons of research bits to do. A good day all round.
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