Make over for Christmas

Its Christmas and as is tradition with long holidays from school the girls get a make over and some colour in their hair, Sophie got purple but I think it looks very much like the pink we did in Summer.  Although Ella has little hair she didn't want to be left out so got a little red mohico and some gold glittery eyes. 

Close encounter of the feather kind

 Sophie has always been really into nature, if there is a frog or toad it will be in her hand, she is often found running around the garden catching butterflies and picking up bugs.

being summer holidays what better way for nature girl to get up close to some wildlife than a bird encounter, and as you can see she lapped up getting the chance to hold some more exotic birds, parrots to a Kookaburra and even got close up to a large owl.

Sophie's high tree adventures

 Sophie turned 6 recently, and has been growing like a weed, she is now finally tall enough to have some fun doing high wire adventures in the trees.  So as part of her Birthday treat she got to go for a climb, and we thought she might be afraid, but it turned out she had to give daddy the pet talk and she ended up going first to show him the way.

 She was so excited to do this experience and was totally trilled the entire way round and enjoyed climbing the wall and zipping the wires.

 She had such a great time she ended up going round 3 times and ditched daddy as he was cramping her new adventure style.

The little mermaid makeup

what do you do on a raining day? turn in Ariel and pretend to be a mermaid

Siblings in April

Siblings in April just chilling out at the end of the Easter Hols, how sad Monday will be.

Pots for winter and spring

 We are full on bulb planting round the garden at the moment and have bought around 1000 bulbs and it is now way near enough for the garden but a good start to build on over the years, Next year i will bulk buy sacks of bulbs as it is much cheaper per bulb.  We have bought loads of varieties of bulbs but the basic types are tulips, daffodils, bluebells, snowdrops,crocus and muscari armeniacum, hoping for a good splash of colour come spring time.

We have a large front walk way and have made a start at trying to pretty it up with some pots.  We are trying to have pots that give blooms for a good 6 months through winter and spring and we have planned the layered pot approach.

Starting with the lower layer we placed tulips bulbs then soil then daffodil bulbs more soil followed by the muscari armeniacum, we topped the pot off with a selection of winter pansies and cyclamen.  Here is madam hitching a ride in the trolley as we took the pots from the potting area to the front door for display.

 My other little helper was on bed duty using the best tool i bought for planting the many bulb, my bulldog garden spear, making planting quicker.  Looking forward to Spring now and seeing all new flowers after our hard work.

Pond skimming

My Nature nymph is loving her new surroundings and the chance to go pond skipping at Dunwich was irresistible tucked in among the beautiful purple heather and the bright yellow gorse flower bushes we across a pond with a pond skipping experts from the national trust.

Grabbing her trusty net to hand Sophie got on with scooping through the mud, water and reeds to see what she could catch.   

With her own finders tray she was whooping with delight when her net brought up beastie after beastie, all the time asking OOH whats this and look at this one.

She was so thrilled to catch all sorts of things from newts to dragonfly lava, below are some of her bugs she caught, she is so hooked on pond skimming that she has asked daddy to build her a pond in the back garden.

Dunwich also has a really large nature reserve just check out this wonderful heather growing there 

How to keep cool on a hot rainy day

My Sunday Photo Colourscape

Find out more about this picture here 

Colourscape

Warning the following pictures are as taken, no colour correction or colour pumping has been adapted on the images.  You will not need to adjust your device.

Well what is this all about then??  The bright colours the strange inflatable the weird alien noises.

Welcome to Colourscape

This is a large inflatable sculpture of psychedelic labyrinths with injections of light fantastic, amazing atmospheres to escape into a parallel space with a unique sound of weird and beautiful music.  

It really is like stepping into another world of psychedelia and you might be excused into thinking you stepped into a scene of the 1970's Barbarella with large neon tunnels to wandering around. The girls were really taken with it, Ella adored the bright colours and soft squishy bouncy floor, As did Sophie who loved being able to run about, up and down the twisting tunnels, being chased and chasing daddy.  Even though this bright inflatable world seemed alien is was strangely comforting and safe feeling.

Sophie at the end of a tunnel

Around the labyrinth strangle and wonderful music floated around in the air.  Down one of the tunnels we found this lady wandering around playing on a strange instrument

Later the music changed to something totally different but outer worldly and at the end of a white tunnel was a large white bubble room where we found a man twiddling dials and playing music through his computer, doesn't he look great.  Just the perfect man to find down a strange tunnel!!

There was more music from another man who played a base flute the instrument below

The girls now have colourscape top of their list for Christmas !!!