Spent the morning feeling all disorganised and out of sorts – think it was a combination of PMT and a pre-Christmas panic. Suddenly realised it’s less than 2 weeks ’til Christmas day and were having all the family round here. Went and did some panic buying – pudding is very well organised now anyway – and felt better. Had friends round in the afternoon to play – was calm by then. Daniel has been studying islands again and really enjoying the sites about flags and Christmas mentioned below. Charlotte is reading ‘The Silver Chair‘ in the Narnia series now. She’s very impressed that the children escape awful bullying at school by getting into Narnia in this one.
Charlotte gets all arty with our spray-painted stick – filling the jar with stones and covering it in snowy textured paper was the most time consuming part:
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as 
a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
