now ronnie adores his scooter, a little red mini micro scooter, and he has had it now for quite some time, it has been well and truly loved. when we first bought it for him, for his second birthday, it seemed so huge and he seemed so small. a couple of weeks ago i was watching him scoot along and somehow he was the one that looked so huge and the scooter seemed so small.
time for a new scoot rooster? yeah i guess so mummy…
we were recently asked whether we would like to give the cricut mini a bit of a work out and post our views of the little machine. well with our love of making stuff especially out of paper and card of course we said yes please thank you very much. a few days later the little beauty arrived.
it looks like a cross between a printer and a guillotine, i guess that because actually that’s kind of what it is. it is said to be able to cut a wide range of material including card, vinyl, vellum, fabric, chipboard, and even thin foils. we however have only tried card at the moment.
for quite some time we have been meaning to “head” (sorry) over to the tower of london, her majesty’s royal palace and fortress. actually if the truth be known only a very few, (the a-list celebrities of their time i guess) have been executed actually on the green inside the tower of london. only seven in total were recorded, three of them queens, anne boleyn, catherine howard and jane grey.
outside on tower hill, is where the main executions happened. 125 “unfortunates” were beheaded here, until the last in 1747. dukes, knights, earls and nobles all came to their end outside the tower walls. an execution could draw a crowed of 100,000 spectators. this was considered entertainment, the whole family would go, with a picnic to boot! possibly the x factor of the day. the first being simon sudbury in 1381 and the last simon fraser in 1747. so if your names simon, i’d give tower hill a wide berth!