Back in February, we had the first meeting for the Redwall Book Club. We are going through the books in order, with the Luptons planning activities for us. We all enjoy the feast time as well, with the mothers making fantastic contributions.
It all starts with the introductions. Everyone has to choose a character from the book and come dressed as them and introduce themselves to the group.
Adam as Skipper (an Otter) and Zac as Martin the Warrior (a mouse).
Dylan as "The Mask", an otter and Stephen as Gonff, the mousethief.
Don’t know all of the girls’ characters!
Kim as Ferdy ( a hedgehog) and Devon as another Gonff.
A junior "Coggs" (hedgehog).
Mark as a little Dibbun (small mouse)
Then it was straight outside for some games before the day got too hot…
Standing around waiting for "poison ball" to get under way. I guess a sword comes in handy…
Listening to the instructions from the Abbess
What’s a Redwall event with out a feast? Well, it isn’t a true Redwall one! I bought the Redwall Cookbook and enjoyed reading the forward by Brian Jacques. He always felt cheated in books that mentioned they had had a feast and yet didn’t describe the food. Some of the passages in his own books are mouth-watering and the food cooked up this time was too.
Of course, I include the dessert table first…
The main courses – there were two tasty soups too – they hadn’t been put on the counter yet… I have the food list from Donna, so here it is:
Plum pudding with spices and fresh cream. crispy cheese and onion hogbake, grilled trout with butter, oats & honey scones piping hot and oozing with butter, Brockhall cobb, chili cheese knob, Little hog pies, paddock pumpkin scones, brown oven loaves, Watergate salad, hot root soup, meadow cream, October ale, apple pie, forest walnut clusters, squirrel mums apple & blackberry cake, guosim shrew shortbread, high meadow corn, & Goody Stickles famous spring vegetable soup.
So, after the feast, we all went and talked about our favourite characters and thought about some Christian characteristics shown in the book, like showing kindess to an "enemy".
I think these happy woodlanders will be back next time…
Devon’s drawing
If Gonff doesn’t "make off" with all the goodies!
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