The Gull's way

So here we are in September, and some of the chicks are spreading their wings again. Saurus is looking for work and getting ready to go to America to visit his girlfriend, Roo is off to college and Wig is back to school.

I can't imagine how hard and potentially soul-destroying it is to have to drag children out of bed every day who really don't want to go to school. As Wig is at school because he wants to be, there's very little fuss even with him being a teenager who likes his sleep... he's all bouncy and bushy-tailed this morning, excited at the thought of going back!

For the rest of us we have new sticker books- Medieval History, fashion in the 1970's, Villains and Outlaws from through history and Cavemen. That last is Hoof's choice and rather cute. Rather than having to put certain stickers in certain places each double page spread is an empty scene which he can populate however he likes with the stickers assigned to those pages. We had a reindeer hunt yesterday and he wasn't at all sure he wanted his cavemen to actually catch any! That lead to some interesting discussions around diet and eating to survive from what there is versus eating for pleasure from vast choice.

I am also determined to sort out some of the huge quantities of produce we have from our allotment, and some from other people too- there are apples to be turned into apple sauce, a HUGE marrow from my sister that we're going to attempt Milly Molly Mandy style marrow and ginger jam with, courgettes to slice and freeze and Dot wants to make carrot cake again. We're certainly not going to starve in a hurry!