Levi went to his first lecture at the natural science society today. It was about birds of prey and was given by the people from the Wessex bird of prey rescue centre.
I think this bird was either the American red tailed or red tipped buzzard.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Theo's Rocks
Lots of our friends have been abroad this year and they very kindly collected rock samples for Theo. He now has samples from Norway, Sweden, Syria and someone has a sample from Italy to give him.
Another friend who lives in Kinson managed to dig up some fossilised wood, a sea sponge, a piece of Celtic pottery and the jewel in Theo's collection a piece of fossilised poo!
Tennis for free
A little while ago we found out about a new scheme to enable children to learn how to play tennis for free. We finally got around to going this week and Levi really enjoyed it.
www.tennisforfree.com/
Grampy
A few weeks ago we went to Devon for a few days. One of the main reasons we go is to visit my grandfather, Grampy.
He's 80 odd and full of interesting information. He was a Royal Marine and spends hours talking to Theo about the war.
Last time we went he 'very generously' gave Levi a huge stuffed toy leopard, Levi then decided he quite liked stuffed animal toys and started collecting them. He now has a huge heap of them piled on the end of his bed. Having them on the bed is not too much of a problem but he sometimes decides to bring them all to sit on the sofa in the lounge.
Grampy informed us that he'd entered a prize draw to win a life size stuffed tiger teddy for him but had lost. I informed Grampy that if he gave him anymore toys we would not be coming to visit again!
The Wishing Stone
This is the wishing stone. It's stuck in the wall on Totnes Road in Paignton, Devon. When we were children we used to walk past it on the way home and my mum used to tell us that if we touched it and made a wish it would come true. I always thought it was the bottom of a bottle that someone had stuck in the wall but as you can see it's a big lump of amethyst. Funny how we remember things differently. Unfortunately someones given it a good knock with something and it's chipped.
This was one of the first things I showed my children when we went back to visit Devon. They've both made wishes on it and this time I didn't even mention it to Levi but as soon as we got to the wall he remembered and started looking for it.
Cockington
This is my friend Sarah who's house we stayed at. We drove to Cockington and spent the day being followed by these awful children who just decided they didn't like our children and were going to harass them.
We found this amazing organic garden. On the way out they had a little stand selling produce. I bought a fresh fig. At first I thought it was a pear, it was the biggest juiciest fig I've ever had, yummy!
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