Minni has been stealing Tiger Lilly my little kitten toy - you know one of the pound puppy variety, she licks it and curls around it all the time.
These pictures are obviously posed but she did then clean the toy kitten, we find this toy in the most bizar of places including under the fire place in the ash - wondering if Minni was trying to litter train it!
This is just a cute picture of Minni in one of her favourite sleeping spots - Jeans blue bouncy chair.
Thursday morning i.e. a week ago Al notices when he bends down to do some of the parking area that the front wheel of the van is bald on the inside. In fact it is more than buld it is down to the fibres - in the words of our one and a half year old uh-oh and oh dear!
The next day it is supposed to drive nearly to Wales!
So Friday morning sees us at the tyre place after dropping Jean off at Nursery on route. No problem they say - but then the wheel won't come off!
We had assumed that we had been bad and not noticed the wheel and it had been like it since the tracking was changed but we thought Uncle David would have told us or just changed the tyres! We really could not work out how we had missed it for so long.
The answer?
We probably hadn't missed it because the wheel was on really tightly at one bolt - who ever had last done the wheels had used the little gun thing they have with the torque setting too high and had cross threaded all the bolts - one of them had snapped off in the nut when they tried to take the wheel!
It was all a bit mangled - so we ended up spending over seventy quid when we'd been expected 10/20 🙁 Not happy. This of course also eat into the time we needed to get ready for going camping!
So now we are trying to track down the last time the wheels were changed/taken off - sigh.
Well it's finially happened - Jean has taken it upon herself to start the interior decoration of the Bakery!
We have been doing drawing and colouring after breakfast each morning with much emthasis on 'only on the paper Jean,' however she got hold of a biro up in our bedroom and though Alaric saw her with it he noted that it was one with a retractable nib and the point was inside so he didnt worry. My policy is that reguardless she is given paper and told only to draw on that.
Poor Alaric didnt realise that the nib doesn't retract properlly and only discovered this fact when Jean drew on my lovely iridescent note book!
We then discovered that she had 'decorated' the sheet adn duvet cover 🙁 Oh well at least it wasnt the walls (yet!).
We showed her sheet and said, 'no bad bobble you only draw on paper,' then just to make me feel really guilty, her little smiling face disolved into tears :'(
Still she was really good with her drawing this morning and only got upset when a crayon broke - she gave it to me saying 'oh dea, oh dea,' and didnt belive me when I said I couldnt fix it!
Yesturday we started digging over the plot and putting a turf path through the middle of it to make two smaller managable plots - I could not really get to everything last year so we are going to see if this improoves things!
We still have a bit more work to do on the plot as we have the ground dwelling catipillars to get rid of for a start!
Still today I started potting up seeds but becuase I am a skin flint I decided that the peat pots from last years house guest forgetting to water cuasultys could be used this year - so there I was and later Al, emptying them and trying not to crack them in the process!
I used the soil from the wormery - and oh what bliss! Compared to last years mole earth and riddling compost through sieves milarky!
However I did randomly find a pice of blue j-cloth in the wormery along with some of those stickers they put on fruit! The bizarest thing was that the j-cloth had some how become rubbery and elastic when the ones we use are not elastic at all!
The only down side to the wormery soil is that I had to extract some worms before using it but I dont think this is too high a price to pay!
I potted up cucumber seeds, cauliflower, carrots in a seed tray (this is a bit of an experiment and is completely against the instructions!), lovage and tarragon.
I was sad to find the globe artichoke packet upside down with no sign of the seeds especially as I was going to give some to Barabara who had realised she had forgotten to get any this year and wanted some.
After the disastor with the highchair and the fact that Jean is now hapy to sit in chairs we decided to see wheather she could cope with eating at a table. So we dug out the little blue kiddies table and the two little chairs from various garages.
We sat her at the table gave her, her food and waited for the carnage - waited for her to wail or escape and walk about - but no - she just sat there happily munching!
The table is also useful for her drawings - this is good as when she was sitting next to me at the big table a)I was worried she'd fall off and b) there was a high chance that my paper would end up crayoned in a helpful Jean attempt!
These pics were taken three weekends or so ago - I lost the camera which is why its taken me so long to post about it - it might onlt be two weekend - hmmm not sure now!
Animals | sarah | 
Fri 16th Mar 2007 11:54 pm | 
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