Will Dig Life

As I write this, we're awaiting Mr's arrival late in the night - three weeks on our own are done, and the next three weeks will be a whole-family affair! Cody the dog is at his friend's, and our housesitters are arriving tomorrow to hopefully have a lovely time in Bristol. So this is what we've been up to this week. First of all, Sunday was the one of the kids' biggest highlights to date: a Bernhard Fibich concert! This is a children's song maker and performer whom we randomly discovered last year when he gave a free concert in a park. The kids enjoyed the concert and I bought two of his CD's there... and those have been playing in the car ever since. They know every word. And so seeing him in person again, getting to be on stage and even sing - absolute highlight! Since that concert was at the House of Music, we also went in there to explore and found some really fun ways to interact with music - from virtually creating our own sound 'blob' to cond

We thought last week was pretty good, dance camp and everything. But now we're doing things together, and we filled our time with highlight after highlight! We're truly spoiled for choice in terms of things to do here, you'd think six weeks is plenty of time but there's just so much on offer.  Swimming It's hot, of course. We went swimming - to a pool this time, rather than the danube - and the kids loved the slide there. Up and down, up and down, more times than I could possibly count... they also got to make art there: Natural History Museum D(7) has a special relationship with the moving robot Allosaurus at the NHM. The first year we came, terror definitely outweighed the fascination; but both were present, and over the years, fascination has taken over. Every year he insists we come visit the moving dinosaur. The museum actually ran a special kids activity where they learned about the Earth's core and various habitats... Rescue Services and Graffiti All in o