- This morning Jacob dared me to cut his hair, he now has a layered bowl cut in the style of Luke Skywalker, not quite the cool surf-boy I was going for. I would have made a fine hair stylist in the 1970s, yet another irrelevant skill for the 2010s.
- Rose and I got into the make your own pink butterfly hair accessories kit she got for her birthday and made a big mess with a glue gun. Photos another day.
- We took a picnic to Rock Glen and I discovered that walnuts grow on very, very tall trees disguised as limes (the walnuts, not the trees). The kids spent ages collecting hundreds of them and putting them in a pile at the top of the slide. Action shot coming up, note the flying walnut to the right of Rose's head.
- Then they spent 10 seconds shooting all the walnuts down the slide at once.
- We went for a walk and found a fabulous maple tree.
- Then we went fossil hunting. Apparently Rock Glen 'features some of the very best Devonian-Era fossils in North America' (I'm quoting their brochure here) so we thought we'd have a look. Frankly I held out little hope of finding anything the kids would recognise as a fossil so imagine my surprise when we found a crinoid, hundreds of brachiopods (of which we kept 4) and a couple of corals. The kids spent ages mucking about round the river looking for them and even Jacob was impressed that they are about 350 million years old.
- We needed a rest after that.
- On the way home we called in at Twin Pines to buy pumpkins for a festive stoop.
- And finally we popped into Best's for homemade ice creams.
I'm well and truly tired out, hope the kids are too.
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