April 11th 2015 - Making Rockets

April 11th 2015 - Making Rockets

You need:
Rocket template  http://www.clipartbest.com/rocket-ship-cartoon
1 thin drinking straw
1 thick drinking straw
double sided tape
crayons/pens optional
printer
scissors

Me and lil man have today made rockets from paper and drinking straws like these on pinterest.  We followed the link which took you to a page of free rocket templates (see above), we had to draw 2 of them (the same rocket) off the laptop screen as have no ink to print them.  Lil man then coloured them in.

Once they were coloured in I cut them out and placed double sided tape on the back of the rockets (both) and place the smaller straw on top of the tape but left 3/4 of the straw sticking out the bottom.  This thin straw then goes into the thicker straw and using the small bendy bit you blow into it and the rocket flies.  I have a happy son that is making his rocket fly, complete with countdown.

April 10th 2015 - Fairy Garden

April 10th 2015 - Fairy Garden

Since we moved to our house nearly 2years ago and started working on the garden (which was a jungle) lil man has asked for a fairy garden in part of it.  We fenced off a section after we had cleared it and we're looking at ideas to go in it etc.  I found many on pinterest and made a whole board linked to it.

As we have seen things fairies, toadstools and such cheap we have bought them.  I have also made some small rock houses to go in it.  When lil man went on a school trip last year the shop had an ornament seagull  that says welcome under it - it was reduced to 50p so lil man bought it with his money - his teacher even asked if he was sure that he wanted that and not a toy like his friends and he was adamant he wanted the seagull for his garden and bought a pencil as well.  His teacher explained to us when we picked him up about it and we confirmed he was making a fairy garden.

We also have a statue of a big grey cat in it.  This was named phoenix after our big grey cat that sadly got killed a few years ago, he was a lovely cat and very dosile.  He was missed by us all so we got the statue.

We still need few more bits to go in it but we have plenty of time for that.  I promised lil man that we would have it done by Easter this year, sadly Easter was last weekend BUT I have sorted it today for him.

April 9th 2015 - Planting garlic

April 9th 2015 - Planting garlic

The garlic bulbs have been sat in water for a few days now and we have long roots at the bottom and long green shoots at the top that are about 3" high.  According to the websites this is when they are best to plant, so we will be going outside later to plant the garlic.

However, most of the websites say that you should plant in august and protect with straw over the winter months so that it is ready to harvest from april/may time.  I didn't know this so hopefully it will still grow, but we can plant more later in the year.

April 8th 2015 - Cinnamon and sand

April 8th 2015 - Cinnamon and sand

Lil man has been outside the past few days as the weather has been nice, and hes been playing in his sand pit, but has moaned that there is bugs in it!

Well I looked on pinterest and found this link about adding cinnamon to the sandpit as it repels the bugs.  So I added 1/2 bottle of cinnamon into the sandpit and mixed it in really well.   The sand now had a slight cinnamon smell and STILL has bugs in it a few hours later.  So i've wasted my cinnamon and not solved the problem as yet.  I will keep checking the sandpit over next few days and see if there's any change.

April 7th 2015 - Bearded Dragon Harness

April 7th 2015 - Bearded Dragon Harness

The other week I ordered a Harness for my bearded dragon so that we can take him outside in the sun without him running off.  Well it arrived today and I tried to put it on him, 1st he puffed up at me and then he tried to eat it, so I don't think this option is going to work! LOL!

April 6th 2015 - Birthday Wishes (and garlic)

April 6th 2015 - Birthday Wishes (and garlic)

Birthday Wishes

Random title for today I know, but I  have my reasons.  Today would have been my Mum's 66th birthday had she still been with us.  Happy Birthday Mum, RIP, love you always. x   I thought these 2 pins suited this bit quite well - for my Mum in Heaven and words and tears.


Growing Garlic

Lil man is loving the idea of growing his own veggies, we have carrots, sweet corn, snap peas and potatoes in the garden already, the blueberry and raspberry bush we bought from £1 shop have both died so need get more expensive ones.  And we have rocket, lettuce, corriander and basil growing in a tray indoors.  He asked if we could grown garlic as we use it in dinners.

So I looked it up, the first thing I found was placing it in fridge and leaving it for a week as it will start to grow - well it was in the fridge for 2weeks and doing nothing!  So I looked to see if I could find another way to get it to grow, and I found a way of growing it in water.  So Yesterday we opened the garlic clove and placed the individual bits in a shallow bowl of water on the window sill.  This morning we have woken up to them looking like this:


So I think a few more days for them to grow bit taller and we will be able to plant them outside in the vegetable planter.  And I think we will wait a few more weeks and then root another lot so we have more growing for later in the year.  I'm not sure how long they take before new cloves have fully grown.

April 5th 2015 - Easter Sunday

April 5th 2015 - Easter Sunday

Happy Easter to all, whether you believe the church teachings that Easter is linked to the resurecction of Jesus or if you follow the Pagan/Wiccan ways and believe that Easter is linked to Ostara and the fertitilty Goddess Eostre or if you just enjoy the weekend off work, I hope that you have a nice day and don't eat too much chocolate and up ill.

I have spent the day getting back into my Family Tree thanks to a conversation with a friend yesterday who said about trying to find her family but having no luck.  I said I would help her if she could send me all info she knew, which isn't much, but there is enough to make a start.  As I was looking for 1 of her rellies I realised that I could actually view records on the site (something i've not been able to do in ages) so I started trying to sort the 1000+ hints that I have on my tree.  And the pin link is right for what happens.

Sadly I have hit a wall on my friends tree but hopefully we can sort this if we can get a copy of the marriage cert as this *should* tell us which of the 2 charles is the father!