We have been busy!

Scrummy Babylonglegs wool for the Knitty KAL

Beautiful Days tickets have landed!
Carl finally has an archy doodah! Covered here while he attacks the knotweed for the millionth time this year but he has been playing with bows and arrows lots.

We have a bee colony in our hedge, fascinating white tailed bumble bees I could watch them buzz about all day!

Our new tent :) (The other one a Vango Diablo is up for sale if anyone is interested)

Radio Flyer wagon for fun and festivals! The boys LOVE this.

Poppy

Thousands of beautiful purple jelly fish washed up on the beach.

Toad hiding in the play straw bales.

We went to see a lovely beekeeper with one of the home ed groups, we had to tie the clothes on in some very strange ways so the little ones could get up close to the bees!

Loving the sea.

We got married at Solstice. Hopefully next year we will have a handfasting and big party.

Balancing in the woods :)

Chicks at 4 weeks old, mama got taken by the fox along with Autumn and a chick but we still have 6 chicks left and they are getting big, must take pictures of them soon.

Amazing

K's current thing is mazes, needs lots of dead ends, roundabouts and a clear entry and exit point. Bridgesa and tunnels are a bonus!

Day 5, look at those cute white fluffy bums!

This one has developed his/her own pair of trousers :)

Teeny tiny feathers appearing

I cleaned out the coop today and there is an escape artist in their midst, although he/she had a little panic when they realised they weren't that close to mama anymore.

2 days old

The 7 eggs that were left all hatched successfully, they are so very cute.

Postcard Swap

Being involved in the swap seemed like the perfect time to get a big map of the world to put up on the wall and put up the postcards where they came from.

The map is enormous and the only place I can fit it is in the hallway.

So far we've had a card from Australia, 2 from the Marshall Islands and one from our friends who live 2 miles up the road in our nearest town, it took 2 weeks and 5 days to arrive lol

Should anyone we know be going abroad I think I'll ask them for a postcard to add to the map.

So far it has facilitated discussions on time zones, distance, where penguins live and flags.

Catching up again

We had the most amazing clouds this morning Some kind of daisy flower picked (read stolen!) for me by Edan

Our first strawberry of the year, it was so juicy and delicious even shared between 3 of us!

The eggs are starting to hatch! No1 died but there is definately 1 live one seen today and I rummaged out 4 sets of shells from under her belly. As the magpies are stealing eggs at the moment I was worried they'd get the chicks so the neighbours have kindly lent us a broody coop (we burnt ours because of a red mite infestation a few years back)

Looking through the camera there are some other pics I've forgotten to download so things may go out of sequence!

May

Maypole dancing! We had a fabulous time for May Day this year. On the Saturday we did lots of maypole dancing and eating of cake! On the Sunday it was the Beltane ritual for the moot which was held at a beautiful location but I was so busy (roped in to lead the spiral dance!) my camera languished in the bag unfortunately. There was drumming and dancing and Penglaz made a flying visit. The blubells are carpeting Tehidy woods at the moment, it's beautiful and they provide ample opportunity for some hide and seek games.

The latest obsession for the boys are a box of metal matchbox/similar cars that my mum retrieved from her attic that used to belong to my brother. Quite a few are broken, wheels missing/doors off etc but they LOVE them! They love getting a plank of wood and making ramps to run them down, the latest creation is in the field made from old bales of hay from the archery target and some rough old peices of wood that were packing from the new printer at C's work I'm sure there's a length of drainage pipe running off it somewhere as well. This provided hours of play but the little boy (4) who is the nephew of the horsey people in the next door field came over said 'where are the toys? What can we play with?! 'There's nothing to do here, haven't you got any proper toys we can play with' He didn't stay long!

I'm decorating up a couple of big wooden boxes that we had from C's new printer at work, one will have carrots and short crop lettuce in the other I'm not sure yet.

May

From this..... to this

May Day dancing

Beautiful bluebells in the woods this afternoon

Playing peek a boo behind a leaf