Oh my, I have an energetic and crazy toddler. 'Is she always like this' the health visitor said at her 2.5 year review. Yes. No stopping her. Busy busy busy. At the moment she is excited by trying to make a 'capapino' with hot milk and chocolate bits and is most distressed when you don't join in! Then there is the mini-bites tray I recently purchased, to make mini banoffi pies and other such lovely things....Isobel uses it to make cakes and then decorate with pink peppa pig icing (all pretend of course...I haven't got the energy to have baked 24 by 7.10am!).
Heard some shocking things yesterday - firstly that apparently there are people who blend/puree up cheeseburgers and chips and give it to their babies as part of the weaning process (hoping I'm not alone in being shocked by this!) and then that someone in France apparently has been jailed for putting their 3 year old in the washing machine on a cold rinse cycle because they had been naughty at nursery. What happy news. That and the state of the economy had me feeling really chirpy yesterday (.!?).
Had a poorly Arthur today. A lot of crying and vomit which is most unlike him. He's in bed now. And it's given me time to ponder the wonder of nature which is going on outside in the garden. I planted some bulbs in October in the hope that we would have some lovely new colour in the spring (can't afford to get the drive redone so bulb planting is the way to go to make it look nicer!). Anyway, there they are - little daffodils trying to grow. I couldn't believe it - definately green shoots from daffodils.
We need a good hard frost to stop them (and to kill the weeds which appear to be growing from the manure in the new vegetable patch). The weather has been too warm I think and so the poor bulbs are confused. It's perhaps a more local illustration of le changement climatique which they (they being officials and NGO reps and consultants and researchers etc) are all talking about in Durban at the moment as part of the latest Climate Change negotiations. You can read all about it here:
http://www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/
as well as getting updates from various NGO organisations including WWF and Oxfam:
http://www.wwf.org.uk/news_feed.cfm?5467/Durban-climate-talks-a-chance-to-end-political-posturing
http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/climate
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