We’re not, but it feels quite holiday-esque this week with all the socialising with people (some of whom are indeed on a summer holiday).
Probably won’t be blogging again later today as we’re off to Chez Westwater on the road in a bit where I anticipate further Pimms drinking 🙂
We’ve been to some butterfly gardens this morning on an Activeo trip – organised by Julie. Chris took time off work to come too which was really nice, in particular because him and Julie kept an eye on Tarly with Jack and Maisie while I spent some time walking with Davies and chatting to him a bit, so he got quite a lot of educational value out of the trip really (just as well, as at seven quid entrance for me I think it was quite overpriced). We talked about the butterflies and the caterpillars, we looked at the various flowers in the gardens and talked about their names and scents. Then we had a picnic lunch before walking round the rescue centre there.
They seem to take in pretty much any small animal and have a very eclectic mix of creatures nestled next to each other (sort of a car boot sale feel if you will!) so we talked about tortoises rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, geese, goats and then went into the reptile bit and looked at iguanas (like Isa Mummy, I was told by Tarly who had caught us up by then), bearded dragons, snakes and various other unwanted exotic pets. We covered quite a bit and reinforced a few other concepts such as nocturnal animals, reptiles and mammals and some of the differences between them, animals who hibernate, how long certain animals live, what their eating habits are, what sort of predators and threats they may have and so on. Really enjoyed it 🙂
Both kids fell asleep briefly in the car on the way home, which is not a surprise really. Having been up til 11pm on Saturday night and awake again by about 8.30am yesterday I had thought they would go straight to sleep last night after running around in C & Js garden all day, but no! They have clearly decided that actually lates nights are the way forward so they were both still awake (although in their beds) at gone 9pm last night. The plus side is S is sleeping through the night I suppose! 🙁 Both of them have been behaving really well considering they have the default excuse for bad behaviour well and truly under their belt though, so it was probably no bad thing to have a quick nap to refresh themselves so they don’t show us up at Joyce’s later.
Think that’s about it really. I do have some educational speculation to do at some point but that can wait for now 😉
Ooh Earnley, I’ve been meaning to go there for ages but yuck to 7 quid entrance fee.
Comment by Jenny — 19 July 2005 @ 10:20 am