“We’re getting on like a house on fire”

AT LAST, Lockdown 2 home A schooling finally took a turn to favour Grandpa for once, and my ears certainly pricked up when I heard castles mentioned.

While Grandma began teaching our granddaughter Beatrix the different terminology associated with castles – motte and bailey, crenellations, arrow slits, drawbridges, portcullises, moats – my feverish imagination turned to how we could help make a model, as directed by the curriculum information worksheet that we had been supplied with.

We usually have a ready supply of different-shaped small and medium sized boxes and containers to satisfy our granddaughter’s fertile imagination in the art and craft department,