D: It’s epic! I LOVE dinosaurs!
Me: Why’s that?
D: Because you get meat-eating ones; plant-eating ones: big ones; small ones; sea ones; land ones; air ones; slow ones; quick ones…
Me: That’s called ‘diversity’.
D: Yes. I wish that they were still alive… But only the kind and gentle plant-eating ones. Like the diplodocus.
Me: Why, what would you do if they were still alive?
D: I’d look at them and I’d stop them from fighting other dinosaurs, even if they weren’t meat eaters, because they’re meant to be kind and gentle.
Me: How would you do that?
D: Um – actually I wouldn’t need to, because they don’t really fight.
Walking with dinosaurs
February 2, 2014
The big screen
May 29, 2013
THE BIG SCREEN
It’s the cinema – there’s the big TV with Despicable Me 2 on it and they’re all the chairs that fold up.
Age 5
Colourful tent
February 8, 2013
Colourful tent – crayons
‘Sno fun
January 29, 2013
Me: Look it’s been snowing again overnight – look at the cars!
D: Will there be snow at school today?
Me: Well yes – they might have cleared a path, but there’ll be snow.
D: Because the other day, a man came and sprinkled snow dust all over the place and it MELTED the snow into ice and we’re not allowed to play on the ice. There was just a line of snow left and all the children were on one side of the line and all you could do was walk – up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down on the line. It was sooooo boring!
Related articles
- Space Invaders Snow Art (uniquedaily.com)
The perfect Snow Angel
January 19, 2013
D: I like doing Snow Angels… How do I get up? …Mum, will you lift me straight up please, so I don’t break it?
1. Wait until it snows
2. Lie on ground
3. Flap arms and legs up and down
4. Levitate and move away
Related articles
- Capital live – snow in London (live.standard.co.uk)
- Winter’s Magic~**Snow*** (jonibeach.com)
- Winter Wonderland (stepintothecruz.wordpress.com)
Water world
January 9, 2013
D: I feel sick because I drank too much in the swimming pool. I don’t like one thing about swimming now, when I think about the water.
Me: You’re not meant to drink the swimming pool, you’re meant to keep your mouth shut when you’re under the water!
D: I did!
Me: So how did you drink the water if you had your mouth shut – did you take a straw in?
D: No… That would be silly!
Me: Perhaps you should have a snorkel next time?
D: Yes – that’s it! That’s a GREAT idea!
Me: Well… Snorkels and masks are for learning to dive, and you can’t learn to dive until you can swim a few lengths of the pool, first.
D: But diving‘s not allowed in the swimming pool.
Me: Diving INTO the water’s not allowed, but I’m talking about diving UNDER the water – sub aqua diving. I used to do that – it was great! There’s a whole different world under the sea – like in Finding Nemo, with all kinds of fishes swimming past.
D: Did you want to see a shark?
Me: Only if it was quite far away.
D: I bet you didn’t want to see a HUMPBACK WHALE? They’re the biggest creature in this world!
Me: Only if they were quite far away too.
D: Are they bigger than the sea?
Me: No – otherwise how would they fit IN the sea?!
D: Oh yes.
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- Top 10 – World’s Best Dive Sites (essentialtravel.co.uk)
- Sea change to one blind man’s view of the world (timesofmalta.com)
- Scott Tucker’s Tips For Teaching Swimming to Kids Featured on Sports Website “Inspirational Sports Stories” (prweb.com)
2012 in review
December 31, 2012
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
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