Goodnight Linus

Linus has always liked to take something to bed with him. When he was little it was just Rabbit and Ninger, as he grew he would take the odd car perhaps, or a train.

Lately though, this habit has become a bit extreme. No longer happy with a book to look at, a soft toy to keep him company or a new train that he just can't bear to be parted with- we now have a bed FULL of things to do and play with.

Trains that get taken to bed need to also have a crane and some track on which to sleep (for sleep read: play with). It has now reached astronomical proportions and we have had to ban various toys, and place limits on the number of items to be allowed in bed at any one time!!!!

So, to honour the end of the "bed full of junk" phase I present to you:

Sleeping Linus and his bed of junk

First day

Today is Linus's first day at school (well, nursery). He had a couple of shorter sessions last week, but for a few days every week he has some full morning sessions.

Today he took is rabbit with him (the only picture I could find of rabbit has him (rabbit) squashed a bit under a present from Christmas 2006 /uploads/linus-2006-christmas-2.jpg (in which he looks soooo little.

Rabbit is in his bag, just to make sure Linus is okay. Apparently rabbit is feeling a little bit funny in his tummy. But he will be okay.

Thomas

Last week we went to Drusillas Park for the day with Aunty Melly. Above is the main reason we went, a lovely ride on Thomas himself! He even pulls Annie and Clarabel (we sat in Annie) and we chuffered around and saw lots of animals, plus Cranky the Crane, James, Bulgy and Diesel.

We had a really great day and Linus shocked us all by going in the paddling pool there as well. The last time we went to a public paddling pool he refused point blank to go anywhere near the water, but this time he was straight in and swimming around. In fact, it was over an hour later when we finally managed to drag him out, with the promise of another ride on Thomas.

Other things we did at Drusillas included:

• milking a pretend cow
• going through the meerkat tunnel
• dying of bat stink in the bat section
• trying to get an egg out of a vending machine by the chickens
• seeing penguins, otters, capybaras and lots of monkeys
• eating ice cream

Holiday

A few weeks ago we all went on holiday to Cornwall where we stayed in a yurt and generally messed-around.

Most of the pictures and yurt related stuff is here: Cornwall Yurt Holiday, although there may be other little bits here.

Sorry

This is a post about where Bob used to live in Littleham which is also near Landcross.

Sorry. This isn't meant to make much sense.

Carry on.