Feeding the birds and lots of snow

Earlier this week, Isla tried using a special telescope to look at stars and find Button Moon. She also wanted to do some painting and helped me to bake a lemon drizzle cake.

It was very frosty one day, and we enjoyed a walk, although Isla got her first grazed knee:

Isla has spent a lot of time playing with her train set this week. I think she even dreams about her trains because she woke up this morning saying 'green train, blue train'. She can put different drivers in the trains, with Raa Raa the tiger as the favourite driver. She has just learnt how to attach the different carriages onto the back of the engines.

Since it's been so cold this week, we felt sorry for the birds in the garden and so secretly put some bread out while the cats were asleep upstairs. We managed to attract a lot of blackbirds and robins to the garden, which were lovely to watch from inside. We even had a blue tit eat some peanuts from our new bird feeder, although that has so far been a one-off.

This morning, we woke up to this:

So, we decided to do this:

Here is a snow angel Isla made by lying down and waving her arms about:

And here is my snow angel (they look a bit like snow lobsters though):

We came inside just before the snow started falling again quite thickly. We had started to build a snow girl  and a snow cat and put some more bread out for the birds. This morning, while it was still dark outside, Monty rushed out and raced about the garden. He loves the snow! He even jumped in and out of the shutters of Jura Lodge a few times!