Some photos from this year's Festival of History.

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Some photos from our day out to the Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

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A few photos from Warwick Castle, mainly falconry and some peacocks.

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I have posted some Festival of History photos, splitting them up by category. Some of the areas, such as the WW1 trench and the medieval village were missing but there were more events going on and the place seemed much busier than last year.

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Mainly photos of a man falling off a camel.

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Photos from the Festival of History - demonstrating use of gas masks in the first world war.

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The Asparagus Festival was held at the Fleece Inn, near Evesham. We watched a cookery demonstration where a three course meal was prepared, with each course containing asparagus. The surprise was the dessert, which was an Eton Mess, containing asparagus ice cream and garnished with an asparagus tip. We tried some of the ice cream and it was unusual but not awful.

There was a craft tent in the pub garden. In addition to displays of traditional crafts, there were various things for sale, including cakes. The cupcake below was a standard chocolate cake (very tasty) with chocolate icing and asparagus shaped (but not flavoured) decorations.

We took advantage of our English Heritage membership to pay a quick visit to Kenilworth Castle. It was too hot to spend too long wandering around so we'll have to re-visit later in the year, on a cooler day.

We also had a quick walk around Kenilworth itself, and passed the new Waitrose, which were were told opens on thursday.

The English Heritage Festival of History covers 2000 years of British history. Most of the displays are military, probably because it leads to a more dramatic show.

In addition to the big displays, there was a historic market where you could buy traditional clothing, games, tableware.

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First stop: The Domestic Fowl Trust. We went there earlier this year but Emma wanted to go back and feed the animals again. This backfired when we got to the Rhea, which decided it wanted to eat her finger and didn't want to let go.

We stopped at a nearby 13th century thatched pub for lunch.

We drove into Evesham and went around the Almonry museum and garden. It was larger than we were expecting on the inside, and it took a couple of hours to walk around.

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We went to a hamster show in Alcester today. I took a short break during the day to walk around the town. It looks like a nice historic place, with plenty of old buildings.

We went with 3 hamsters - Orna and Graaf were being entered in the show. Vande came along to keep Graaf company. We came home with 4 hamsters. Emma decided to buy a 'boyfriend' for Orna.