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Archive for March, 2009

bird watching, playing with dolls, scooby do, drawing rockets with daddy.. all in a day!

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Its the end of march all ready!

And what have we been doing? So far this month, we have been to Portmerion 2 times, whilst it is still free, the first time it was just the three of us, the second we went on a CLAS trip, which co-incided with a friends birthday.

We have been on numerous play dates, and returned to gymnastics after a long period of just not being well enough on a Monday. We have returned to the library, and been doing awareness work on disability.  We have been feeding the birds, and trying to learn our bird songs.

We have collected leaves, and flowers to try and press. We have watched the robins, meadow pipits, gold finches and other birds in the garden.

We have enjoyed a couple of trips to caernarfon, and a few more to Portmadog. We have learned that the Police arent always the good folk (our caravan was seized with no notice for causing an obstruction… ummmm)

We have enjoyed videos, been to see lambs, played with friends, been paddling in llanberis, nearly mastered skate boarding, and done painting, drawing, glueing, reading, writing, and laughing in abundance.

Been going to Gwerin every two weeks, and CLAS every week still. I have been to a party with friends at the Play Barn in Caernarfon, and walks with daddy.

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Having a bad fortnight. I have lost three friends in such time.

M posted this on facebook .  Thankyou.

Madam Butterfly

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I am on catch up, and I know this post is long overdue.. so here is asha with her snowperson.

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Most people would put a picture up of there crocus comeing through, we went for the pollen….

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Well spring has arrived and so we have had our first trip to the Welsh Mountain zoo for 2009.

It was lovely to be back outside with all the kids and parents, wandering around watching the little monkeys, the goats and the baby rabbits.

Asha at the moment has a real thing about rabbits, and was fascinated when we were talking about how they talk to each other.. stamping there feet.. she is spending a lot of time doing this action right now… Stomp stomp stomp!

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Penblwydd hapus i chi
Penblwydd hapus i chi
Penblwydd hapus i Steve
Penblwydd hapus i chi.

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Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can’t get friendly with a crocodile
Don’t be taken in by his welcome grin
He’s imagining how well you’d fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never dip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile
You may very well be well bred
Lots ot etiquette in your head
But there’s always some special case, time or place
To forget etiquette
For instance:
Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can’t get friendly with a crocodile
Don’t be taken in by his welcome grin
He’s imagining how well you’d fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never dip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile

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A couple of weeks ago, Steve won a bid on a microscope on ebay.

So here is steves blood…

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Has anyone got the following items they dont need?

We have just aquired a caravan, with awning, and need a few bits and pieces to make life easier.

Tent pegs

Water carrier (rolling one) fitting for water carrier – caravan.

Ground Sheet – for awning.

Gas bottle fitting, and pipe – butane bottle.

Solid step, so we can get in and out of caravan!

Caravan heater??

If anyone can help in anyway with any of this, we really would appreciate the help!

Vicki …..

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During Elizabethan times, Shakespeare refers to the custom of wearing a leek as an “ancient tradition”, and his character Henry V tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “for I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.”

Even earlier than this, entries in the household accounts of the ‘Welsh’ Tudor Kings of England, record payments for leeks worn by the household guards on St. David’s Day.

Earlier still in the fourteenth century, it is known that the feared Welsh archers adopted the green and white colours of the leek for their uniforms, perhaps at the Battle of Crecy.

Earlier than this however, myth and legend begin to intertwine. According to one legend recorded by the English poet Michael Drayton in the early 1600’s, the leek was associated with St. David the Patron Saint of Wales who died in 589 AD. It is possible that the poet made up the story; however it tells how St. David ordered his soldiers to wear the leek on their helmets in a battle against the hated pagan Saxon invaders of Britain. The battle itself is also said to have taken place in a field full of leeks.

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Wales-History/TheLeek.htm

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