Big is watching animal documentaries – Life in the Freezer atm. She’s been a bit upset about the baby penguins dying, but overall the programme is going down well.
Small has discovered that train track fits together, and has been trying to build it. With little success it has to be said, but at least he’s trying.
And this activity has allowed me to spend some time reading shopping cart documentation, so I’m learning too. 😉 (Although I suspect I’d learn faster if some idiot hadn’t contrived to store this pdf with the pages in reversed order….amazing how difficult that is making it).
We’ve also been out in the garden and finally planted up our blackcurrant bushes (I’m sure it’s the wrong time of year for it, but it’s also the wrong time of year to leave them in their pots any longer!) And dp read them some nursery rhymes earlier – I’m impressed that Small appears to have grown out of his habit of destroying books, and now brings them to ppl to read for him. Wonder how many small children just have all books removed as soon as they destroy one or two and so don’t get to learn that they can be rather more fun if you read them?
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We love some of those nature DVD’s. We’ve got Blue Planet, and Life of Mammals, and they go down a treat. Alison lent my Blue Planet initially, with (my) intention being it would save us buying it, but it was so good, we just had to have it in the Amazon new year sale.
I’m assuming it was Big and Small Tim read nursery rhymes to, not the blackberry plants – or was Prince Charles right about talking to them to help them grow? 🙂
What, you mean you don’t talk to your plants?
You’re quite right in planting those bushes at this time of year – and even better if Tim keeps talking to them!
ROFL – I now have visions of Tim getting his “fresh air” saying he’s reading nursery rhymes to the plants. Oh, you have brightened my day – thank you!
Maybe I do talk to plants, maybe I don’t. But it could be worse, apparently Nic talks to Prince Charles.
Anyone remember the SPitting Image Cabinet meetings?
Waiter: How would you like your steak, madam?
Maggie: RARE!
Waiter: What about the vegetables?
Maggie: THEY’LL HAVE THE SAME!
on the subject of eating books – I have a box of semi destroyed ones that I keep out all the time for babies (who chew everything) and other peoples children who show little respect for our precious books. The good, undamaged ones remain safely on the bookshelves in the boys room and are ‘out of bounds’ until such times as the children learn to respect them. In five children I think we have only ever had 1 or 2 books destroyed – one of those being dribble on a brand new library book with shiny pages – the pages stuck together and made a nasty mess of a couple of when I tried to seperate them – We paid for it and it’s on our bookshelf now, as fortunatly it was still readable. Anyway – the ‘damaged books box’ gives the little ones enough idea about books to arouse their interest and let them ‘handle’ them and I have found it flows naturally into reading and them learning the ‘real’ value of books!