Vikings beware

We decided to spend part of our weekend out in the campervan ("Whitey the SnugBus") in Dorest.
There is so much to do round Wareham and we had a brilliant day at Bovington Tank Museum, where we spent ages searching for pictures of animals on tanks, playing hide and seek and going for a very bumpy ride in a vehicle. On the Monday we went to Corfe Castle - well the remains of it, as it was destroyed during the civil war, as it was a royalist stronghold and a highly defencible locations.
So here is Callum fighting a viking who took great pity on us, as the timetable said the kids could do some fighting at 1pm, but apparently it was wrong and we were late. So the only thing Callum wanted to do was fight a viking and when I explained that we were too late, his face just fell and the tears started!! He is prone to being a bit dramatic, but I do believe that these were genuine tears of sadness. A very noble viking, kindly went and found a stick and shield and a willing warrior for Callum to fight. As you can see it really made his day, so much so that when we said we would stay to watch a later battle in an hour, he just smiled, and said "can we go home now mama?" and promptly put his thumb in his mouth. Totally satisfied with his achievement.

So a huge thank you to the wonderful re-enactment team at Corfe over the weekend a really great group of people who were really willing to help bring history to life, let Callum hold numerous knives, swords and axes (all blunt I hasten to add) as well as spare two parents from totally letting down their child.