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Someone's been busy unpacking all the clean (but rarely put away) laundry. She's happy and I'm tired - thank goodness it's Friday 😁 . . #messybaby #tootiredtocare #whoneedsatidyhouseanyway #honestparenting #tgif

An extremely happy morning spent making and playing with (and attempting to eat, cough, cough, Chou-fleur) baked mud hedgehogs. Completely and utterly inspired by @muddly_puddly 's homemade clay/mud dough recipe. The whole house smelled of Christmas, due to the clove spines and eyes, and an afternoon shower did all my cleaning up for me outside, so a total win all round I think 😁 . . #messyplay #noschoolonwednesdays #preschoolcrafts #hedgehog #learningthroughplay

Whoops...accidentally grew a marrow. Easily done when you completely abandon your veggie patch for weeks on end, because a certain mademoiselle refuses to nap properly or acknowledge bedtime...And what a whopper it is! . The now ex marrow is currently being fought over and devoured by the chickens and duck, so my woeful lack of horticultural follow-through is at least appreciated by some. . #veggiepatch #growyourown #gardeningnovice #lazygardener #needmorehoursintheday #marrow

Hmmm....to nap or to rascal off and destroy a beloved (and too complex to be reconstructed without arousing suspicion) Duplo "chicken coop". Decisions, decisions... #rascallybaby #nappingisfortheweak #timber #duplo #proudbaby

🌈🌈🌈 Rainbow nappies!! 🌈🌈🌈 They look so happy on the line, and nake me feel *slightly* better about dealing with the weaning months 😁 (For any interested fellow cloth users, these are @bumgenius 'Elementals' and 'Freetimes') #clothnappies #clothdiapers #makelaundrynotlandfill #clothbum #clothbummum #ecofriendly

No school on Wednesdays! Today we adventured to Chanaz to see its water mill. My Chou came home for lunch on Monday singing something completely unrecognisable, in a language identified only by himself as French, which, unfortunately, he wanted me to translate. His "maitre" later revealed that it was a brave attempt at a new song that they'd been learning in class: "Meunier, tu dors": "Miller, you are sleeping. Your mill is too fast. Miller, you are sleeping. Your mill is too strong." (Translation: my own. A triumph, I think 😉) Although my French is now fairly acceptable for the majority of situations (at the school gates, on the building site, in the delivery suite...) I am completely lost when it comes to French nursery rhymes, so I spent that afternoon learning this one via the best teacher an "anglaise" could ask for: YouTube. I am now word-perfect; my Chou is still incomprehensible. And, with nothing better to do on a Wednesday afternoon, my Chou and I decided to head out to see a real, working "moulin" for ourselves...ironically, though, this particular wheel was neither fast nor strong, and is no longer used to power the mill. I believe that something hidden and modern does the job instead now. Oh well, at least we tried! #watermill #moulin #rhonealpes #noschoolonwednesdays #exploretheoutdoors #heloveshiswellies #huiledenoix #learningthroughplay

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