Mr J. I’ve done you proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me outside the battle grounds at Battle.
Me on the London Eye
Me outside Carlisle Castle.

Hey guys,

We are now in the U.K and on Thursday we went to a place called Battle that is the actual town where the battle of Hastings was fought. The way the battle came about was that Edward the Confessor and King Harold said that William the conqueror would become the King of England. King Harold broke that promise when he seized the throne. The battle was only one day and there is controversy over the way King Harold died. Some say he was hacked down by swords, and others say that arrows shot him in the eye! King Harold’s plan was to hold out until nightfall so that when the Normans retired to sleep, they would go into the camp and slaughter the Normans, but William also had a plan which meant bad news for Harold as William was a determined young man and he was feared throughout France. Now Harold’s army were tired, as they had just come back from another battle, so they weren’t at the top of their game and then the Normans let some arrows fly and that was when King Harold died and the Normans won the Battle of Hastings.

We have also been to London tower. We took the tour with the beefeater and he scared me stiff as he went into some gory details about when people had their heads chopped off, while we were there we got to see the crown jewels. But we weren’t allowed to take a photo - that was sad. A few days later we went on the London Eye that was fun even though mum sat there with her hands over her eyes I think I could have seen the whole of London from there!!!!!!!!!!! If you put the London Eye in Victoria Falls it would still be poking out the top! It is that high!!!

You know the nursery rhyme London Bridge is falling down its true London has had six London bridges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The second bridge was pulled down by the Vikings as the Anglo- Saxons threw stones at them as they passed under the bridge so that is where you get the song London Bridge is falling down.

Today we are in Scotland in a town called Lockerbie. Guess what, we didn’t even have to go through customs. I guess if we had been cleared by the England we were ok!!!!! When we came into Scotland, there was just a big sign saying welcome to Scotland. Today we went for a drive and saw some of the Scottish countryside. It was very beautiful – a lot like home except the buildings are made of stone and so are the fences which are called drystane. The grass is very green and there are lots of Suffolk Sheep! They are the ones with the black faces and legs. Over here they don’t dock the sheep’s tails so they look a bit different to ours.

Tomorrow we are going to a place called Motherwell and we will be staying at the GLO centre. Dad will be taking the devotions for the students on Friday morning. On Saturday we go back to England and Dad has a few more meetings there over the next few days.

After that we are going to spend one more night with Mr and Mrs Fair and then we go to a hotel close to Heathrow Airport for Wednesday night. On Thursday morning we are flying to LA.

Bye

Katie.