So we took advantage of an inset day at Maddie's school today (note for those of you without kids that's a teacher training day). Both of us took the day off, and armed with our new Merlin passes, visited Chessington. It was Maddie's first visit, and our first for a few years. Maybe it was the weather or maybe it was the feeling that we were skiving off work but we had a thoroughly wonderful, if exhausting day.