Now our severe windy storms of the past few days have passed, life in the outdoors can return back to a more normal routine, without fear of a tree falling on our heads. One of my priorities at the moment is refining the twins’ cycling skills. We put them on 2 wheels back in November where they just took to …
Seeds and Ants
This morning we have been completing our first week of our nature curriculum. This has involved making a collage from our seeds that we collected. The little men happily stuck with sticky tape and glued away, whilst our little lady creatively turned her seeds into animal pictures. An extension activity for the week’s topic of seeds was to write a …
Admiring Beautiful Butterflies on Mamma’s Day
Today is Thursday, so it’s Mamma’s Day, and we only have 2 more of these left (after today) before our mini men finish pre-school, so I looked for somewhere for us to head off on a little adventure. We headed over the Earnley Butterflies and Gardens, near Chichester, which promised butterflies, gardens, animals, reptiles, and ship wreck artifacts! The photo …
Hunting for Fossils, Bones, and Sharks’ Teeth.
Today’s National Trust mission was to hunt for fossils and bones (and we added in sharks’ teeth – our area is known for them at low tide but we have never found one yet!). So, with low tide at 0945 we set off and got there just after to make the most of the shingle spit that appears, which makes …
Lets Go Fly a Kite!
So we have decided to attack the National Trust’s 50 things to do list with great gusto, and we are looking forward to having a lot of fun doing it, during our last few months in the UK. It will give us enforced breaks from the lists and packing too. First up was to fly a kite. This is …
Making Plans.
I have the hugest tick list of places to visit, that grew substantially longer once our little lady came out of school. When I came back from Sweden, I set about making one for the immediate surrounding area that we would be living in (as if I needed an extra reason to make another list!!). I thought I’d tackle a …
Day 30-Clouds and Dreaming.
I have always had a fascination with clouds. Their floaty, light, no responsibility freedom, drifting across the sky. I find them hypnotising. It first started when I was revising as a teenager. I would look out of the window in front of me over the green hills in Cheltenham, and get absorbed in the calmness of the clouds drifting by. …
Day 29-Nature is my Therapy.
With the children clamouring to go “treasure hunting” again (geocaching), and having not been outside since forest school on Friday (apart from the awful trip to the vets, and a brief walk last night when I didn’t know where to put my hands with not having to hold a dog), I knew it was time to save my own sanity …
Day 28-Play, Play, Play!
It’s short and sweet today, due to me feeling a little more than just down in the dumps! The children have had one of those amazing completely unstructured days that sees them use every scrap of paper, sellotape, and string that exists in the craft supplies, tell stories to each other in the pop up campervan tent, beat off the …
Day 26-Climbing Trees & One Last Family Outing.
With our furry friend and companion now not eating and mainly sleeping, we decided to take one final family outing to one of his favourite spots, the beach. This required some creativity with his transport method, as he now hadn’t moved himself for at least 24 hours. We dug out the twins buggy that we’d hung onto for last weekends …
