Krishna and the Butter Pot

Rich and LA went to see Krishna and the Butter Pot at the Curve on Saturday morning. (I took some me time and went shopping!)

There was a lot of Indian dancing and a chance to take part, which for LA and her "I want to go on the stage" was ideal. She was first up!

Next weekend its Mother Goose, and its my turn to accompany her. Somehow, I don't think she's going to be quite as impressed.

Our plants project

As part of our new ordered (vaguely timetabled) lives, we have been looking at plants.

We have grown fast seeds (cress) and slower seeds (basil). We have planted up small flower plants, tomatoes and peppers and watched them grow. We have watched daffodils bloom, flower and die and we currently have one sitting in a vase with green coloured water, the flower was supposed to change colour, but doesn't seem keen.

We have chitted our free potatoes and will be planting them up at the weekend. And Rich has dug and built a raised vegetable bed for us to grow a few of our own vegetables this year (still we wait for the allotment...)

We have propagated African violets from a leaf cutting and transplanted the strawberry runners.

LA has really enjoyed this project so far, and is keen to look at the seeds and plants each day to spot any tiny changes! She has taken on board much of the vocabulary and can now talk like a gardener to anyone who stands still long enough to listen!

Hopefully I can find a way to inspire her to put pen to paper and write or draw something about it soon, but so far no luck.

Still breathing...

Oh dear, my good blog intentions didn't last very long did they? OK lets scrap that first try and start again...
What's been happening here? Well, we've been busy, very busy.

LA continues to learn in leaps and bounds. I did get very anxious about the time we had to spend with LA being gobbled up by other things so we have given ourselves a very slack timetable for the moment. We're not really the timetabling sort, so it has to be slack! However, it does seem to be helping and I'm panicking less about spending so much time on my own education at the perceived detriment of LA's.

Apart from that, I passed the first module of my masters (hence the blog absence)... just! But just is good enough for me. I'm not proud!