Saturday 27 October 2012

Spooky spiders

On our way to the swimming pool yesterday, we saw a fox. It was very bold and ran across the road carrying a rat or similar in its mouth. We stopped briefly in the car to watch it: the fox stared back at us from a field track. It was great to see a rural fox as I think I have only seen urban ones before and heard their weird shrieks at night in the city. We felt very privileged to have seen this handsome fox.

We finished off making our spooky spider yesterday, and also finished our bat that Isla had painted earlier in the week. She enjoyed putting glue everywhere, sticking some eyes and sequins on and also choosing coloured pipe cleaners for the spider legs. The bat and spider are now decorating our window to scare off nosey passers by.







Charlie thought it was a real spider, and so tried to eat it.

Isla hiding in a den reading a book. Charlie watching on
after trying to walk across the 'roof' of the den


The braised oxtail for dinner turned out well. I used a recipe from BBC Good Food which was very easy and tasty.


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