Beatrice has started school. We've had a week of homeworks so far! There has been drawing between lines, lacing a plastic giraffe, playing pairs and singing "Twinkle Twinkle". At the weekend a topic sheet came home with a list of art activities, books, vocabulary and places to visit.
One of the places to visit was the zoo. I'll try and make the links for you...lots of animals at the zoo...some in pairs...Noah took pairs of animals into the ark...the Bible story ends with God promising never again to destroy the earth in a flood and placing a rainbow in the sky as a reminder...rainbow has lots of colours. Any other suggestions welcome. We didn't go to the zoo.
The second place to visit was a Greengrocers (I suspect that colours and fruit / vegetables overlap somewhat...especially with the orange...and as the "Activities" include making a fruit salad and trying a fruit or vegetable you've never tasted before). So we set off to Helens.
We came home with damsons (yeuk according to Bea) and Victoria plums (delicious). We also had to buy oranges, apples, strawberries and pea pods...but the plums were the special fruits we had never tasted.
The last place to visit was B&Q's paint section.
I suspect that this is to find out about colour mixing and simply to see how many colours there are. What a convenient excursion as on my birthday there had been a nail polish disaster * in the bathroom where our once cream walls became stripy pink.
* No names, Melissa, no names!
The nail polish disaster was really a blessing as the bathroom was in dire need of repainting.
We duly set off to B&Q.
Who knew what colours lived there!
Now husband always jokes that men see in 16 colours like the old Windows default settings...peach and pumpkin are fruits and men have no idea what mauve is.
Thus I can conclude that a man did not name the colours on display. Huge aisles of various paint colours rose up on either side of us as Bea and I played spot the colour...pink would be "hot date", orange would be "steamy tropics"....you get the idea.
So we purchased...
...and took it home to test it.
As it dried, Bea and Daddy harvested our green / red / brown speckled apples.
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In other colour news...it was my birthday...
To her great delight, Bea carried in my birthday cake. This photo does rather look like I am incredibly old and there is a small fire ontop of the cake. I could only find five candles, so I'm going with "instagram glow"
However, I did collect some very colourful gifts and cards...
The flowers were from my good friends* at Donnelly's who also gave* me Bella
Who is black and crossover grey.
* gave is perhaps the wrong word, but they did let me swap Florence for her and a monthly payment and friends is possibly reading way too much into their giving me flowers.
For a brief moment on my birthday, Bella and I had the same miles on the clock.
(I did rather fall for Bella in the showroom...it was only when I came home and read the online blurb that I discovered I had bought a boys car. To quote...
Oh well...I guess my sophisticated style and dynamism has just overridden my vintage flower tendencies)
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If you are wondering what colour "lunch date" is...
...it's light green. The darker green (behind the picture) is "bamboo leaf" - but you knew that anyway!
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