footie's blog

On Friday, we went to see Sophie & Amy sing with their choir (Taplow Children's Choir) at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert was organized by CLIC Sargent, a charity supporting children with cancer. There were hundreds of children taking part, as well as a host of guests including Joss Stone, Lemar & Ms Dynamite.



A fun day was had by all the kids, even though it included travelling up at lunchtime and hanging around all afternoon. Our kids were in one of the top rows on the right hand side. Luckily we had brought binoculars so that we could see them ...

It is looking increasingly like June is becoming Chocolate month:-

• Our latest selection of luxurious chocolates from Hotel Chocolat arrived (one of Tina's birthday presents)
• The new Roald Dahl Museum has just opened in Great Missenden - with chocolate-coated doors.
• We visited Cadbury World (see separate article) - apparently Dahl's inspiration for Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (didn't see any Oompa Loompas there though).
  
• Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the movie - is now complete, and the launch date has just been announced for ... er ... July.
  

Oh well the celebration of chocolate will have to continue past the end of June then.

Last weekend, we all went to Cadbury World. Based at Cadbury's factory in Bourneville in the suburbs of Birmingham, it was an entertaining day out, for what was essentially, a factory tour. In fact it was much more than that - there were rides and climbing equipment, a museum on the history of chocolate and the Cadbury empire, a multimedia display of Cadbury's advertising down the ages - and best of all - an interactive chocoloate playground where you actually get to make your own chocolates.