Monthly Archives: October 2012
The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it was None of His Business – otherwise known as the Poo Book
Bought for Weasel for her birthday, The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business, better known in our house as “the poo book”, is now a firm favourite. As a word of warning though, this is not one you’ll want to be having a cup of tea and a […]
Painting Pumpkins!
Ok, we’re not going to win any awards for ‘most beautiful pumpkin’ at Halloween, but if mess made bears any relation to fun had, I think the 90p spent on pumpkin was worth it. Eyes – stolen from a BBC magazine with Halloween mobile (these kid’s art magazines are great if you struggle with creative […]
Hollycombe Steam Collection – Smelly, but great for toddlers
Getting Husband’s hopes up for a Victorian steam fair that I swore I’d seen a sign for weeks before and then being totally unable to find any record of it anywhere on the internet, meant a trip to a more permanent one – the Hollycombe Steam Collection in Hampshire. Personally hating the smell of coal […]
Disneyland Paris
I’ve realised that although I’ve slagged off the food and talked about the pregnancy angle of Disneyland Paris, I haven’t really mentioned much about the park itself and what Weasel thought of it. Having been to Walt Disney World in Florida with someone else’s infant (and them obviously, I don’t just take random infants to […]
Pumpkin Picking Rocks
Ok, so we missed the actual bit where you go into the field due to procrastination, oops. But we still trekked down to the farm shop at Sutton Green and got an adventure picking out ones that had been brought in from the fields on site. It was probably a good thing we didn’t have […]
Holmbush Farm World
Looking for somewhere about a nap away to take Weasel to on the afternoon of her birthday, Husband managed, all on his very own, to find Holmbush Farm World, near Crawley, to visit on a sunny autumn afternoon. Apparently he’s managed to find another place that’s been on the telly (ooo-oooh) as the BBC filmed […]
Tip Tops Tabs Pirate Party – Looks Indestructible, is Mostly Made of Tape
Bought before Weasel was born, Pirate Party was mostly purchased for being about pirates and looking like it would take heavy machinery to destroy it. As we soon discovered, a toddler is more than capable of this on their own. But if the amount of cellotape on a book is testament to how much use […]
Weasel’s Current Food Love – Risotto!
I’m so relieved we are getting a temporary reprieve from the milk/sausage/yogurt diet that Weasel was enjoying for so long, and with something as quick and tasty as risotto. Woohoo! I’m a big fan of the northern Italian rice dish, although I’m sure purists out there might mock some of the combos I put in […]
Food at Disneyland Paris
Firstly, I should admit that I am unabashedly a food snob, so eating at Disneyland Paris was never going to be high on my list of ‘things I’m looking forward to’ on our trip across the Channel. Weasel, on the other hand, I assumed was likely to thoroughly enjoy a diet of processed, reheated, overpriced […]
Weasel – Master of Chopsticks – sort of
Admittedly it probably is a bit over the top to get your 22 month old a set of chopsticks; but how could I resist when they’re so friggin cute? It all started out with her back in February being envious in a Chinese restaurant of our chopsticks and refusing to use a fork even though […]
adventures with gravel 