Grrrh - this is the second time I have created this particular entry! I was just putting the finishing touches to the entry, including text and pictures with titles and as I was fiddling with a video, I discarded the wrong thing and lost the whole bally lot. It had taken me a reasonably uncomfortable hour to produce it so I thought, "burger it", I had spent too long in the chair and nearly crippled myself getting out of it. So, as I lie here on the bed resting comfortably, Penny is crouched over the laptop typing away- yes I am.

After a relatively quiet few days, we decided to actually do something and went to the Black Country Museum at Dudley near Birmingham. The museum is based around the old lime kiln workings and canal basin, in a recreated village turn of the century village. Most of the buildings, including school, shops, houses, were demolished at their previous locations and reassembled at the site. it is a complete working village, including a tramway and local omnibus. There are many volunteers in costume who populate the houses and shops and demonstrate life. There are many groups of school children who come to experience life as their great grandparents would have known.

Peter had visited previously 8 years ago and got into conversation with a Victoria Wood clone who was the horse handler. She kept us amused with stories of William, the shire horse that Peter remembered, with a 15 minute stand-up comedy routine involving his repatriation to her field. She was a crack-up.

In the village, you can walk around old shops and houses and buy a pennyworth of chips for £1.60 - cooked in beef fat! We also visited the fun fair of which pictures are below. All in all a really good day out, with sun and 24 degrees.