We probably spent too long sitting on the couch watching the kittens wrestling and knocking each other about, as we'd decided that we didn't want to arrive early (!), so we were already running slightly behind when our Satnav guided us to and then abandoned us outside a school, of all places.
We'd more or less decided that since the event was now starting and we hadn't even located it yet, that we'd go home if we hadn't found it within a few minutes..We got out of the car and were looking about the place for inspiration when our day suddenly turned into what is known at VegaNation as a Vegan Day Out when we saw a black and white Border Collie come flying across the road and galloped away from us through a hedge. We immediately jumped out of the car and gave chase as there was no-one with the dog. Our camera isn't working (how can that be- we have kittens!) so I've had to find some clip art to represent us haring after the dog! We eventually caught the dog and found a man looking for her, initially so out of breath that he was completely unable to speak, who scuttled home with her ('scuttled' because he had forgotten to bring her lead, so had to walk along bent over holding her collar..) after he'd given us directions to the community centre we were looking for. When we got there the storyteller had failed to materialise, much to the chagrin of the organiser, but luckily one of the other mothers stepped into the breach and told stories to some of the children instead. One of the stories was Jack and the Bean Stalk and, since a certain level of audience participation was invited, in spite of the vote going against her, our seven year old managed to get the story teller to do an alternative ending to the story, in which the giant is not killed but simply climbs back up the beanstalk again!
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