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Corfu – It’s all Greek to me!
Ahhh, Corfu – one of my most favourite places on this earth. To be fair, I’ve not travelled very far and wide. The furthest I’ve been is to Florida – my younger brother lived in Miami for a year as...
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Chromatography – Fun with Filters
I have a vague memory of a chromatography experiment at school whereby we separated the colours in black pen ink. You can read a bit more about a simple experiment here. So, I thought we could try...
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Printing and Stencilling
Today, our activity involved paint! Now, those who know me will know that I tend to avoid paint in my own house - the children seem to get it everywhere – in their hair, ears, up noses, splats on the...
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Non-messy messy fun! Zip bag painting!
Poor Conall was really poorly last night – he was sick 4 times throughout the night and was crying and whimpering in between so neither of us got much sleep. So this morning, while he was having a nap...
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‘Greek’ with envy – a quick post
The old citadel of Corfu city located at its edge, Corfu Island, Greece (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is just a quick post tonight. I’m feeling a bit envious of my sister at the moment. She has gone...
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Frozen Paint – a Messy Play activity!
Last night I poured different colours of paint into one of those silicone bun tins and placed it in the freezer ready for today’s activity. As the sun was shining, it was the perfect day for an outdoor...
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Oh Orla I cannot believe you are 22 weeks old. 5 whole months. How can that be already? ♥ My darling ♥ My sweet ♥ My Baby ♥ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Well that would take too long so...
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Birthday Wishes to Matilda Mae
May 2nd 2012 was the birth day of Matilda Mae. February 2nd 2013 Matilda went to sleep and didn’t wake up. An angel. Today is her first birthday. This poem is dedicated to Jennie and her family –...
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Beach on a tray – messy, gloopy play!
So here is my version of a beach on a tuff-spot which a few bloggers have done recently! I made the sea (well, more a pond) by mushing jelly onto a sheet of tin foil. I only had strawberry jelly in...
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Cress heads – taking old tights to new heights!
This is an activity I have been meaning to do for a while now. We have been planting our vegetable garden out over the last few weekends and I have promised the children they can have a small plot for...
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Didn’t we have a lovely time…….. the day we went to Wollaton Hall!
I have been meaning to put this post up for over a week now but life has just taken over. Things just seem to have been really busy – I’ve been feeling really tired and run down, I haven’t really done...
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Geocaching – super, smashing…….great!
Bank Holiday Monday – the weather was glorious! So we decided to make the most of it and get out in the great fresh air! We have lots of open countryside around where we live so initially we were just...
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Raised salt painting art – a bit hit and miss!
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while as we actually did it a few weeks ago now. To honest I was quite disappointed with the end result but the process was interesting and fun and that is just as...
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Time Machine Music #1 –‘Friendship’
Cover of Beaches (Special Edition) A few bloggers have written posts about music recently. Music that they have ‘inherited’ from their parents or tracks they would like their children to ‘inherit’....
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Scented playdough – a sensory experience!
Every so often I make a batch of playdough for the children – they love it and will happily play for quite a while with it, squidging and squashing it, moulding and mashing it, rolling and stretching...
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We have chickens -Introducing Lily and Pearl!
Nearly a year after moving into our forever house (has it really been a year already? How time flies) we have finally acquired chickens! We have kept chickens, along with a cockerel, before when we...
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So much to do, so little time
I have really neglected my blog over the last few weeks. Sometimes life just takes over and I get so exhausted and with 4 young children and a husband whose work takes him away at least 2 nights a week...
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What a night’mare’–“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste” ~William...
Ahh, the above quote is so, so true in my garden. We moved in just over a year ago and really the gardening so far has been trying (and pretty much failing miserably) to keep on top of the weeds. It is...
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A letter to Matilda Mae
It has been a very, very long time since I have written on my blog. I’d started to feel like I didn’t really know which direction I wanted to go in – my blog was a real mish-mash of posts and I didn’t...
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Star Shining Bright, Twinkling in the Night…..
A year Matilda A year An eternity No time at all A little baby A huge soul Look after your family this weekend Matilda Shine down brightly on them We are thinking of you all x
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