When I sat down to write this review, I couldn’t find the book The Amazing Human Body. Finally I tracked it down. My daughter’s been hiding it on her bed so that she could do all the activities and doodles inside it before her twin brother takes it over again. My son is addicted to books […]
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On nature walks we constantly spot animal footprints and can see where they roam when we’re not about. We’ve also been on a nature detective hunt following badger trails. Finally we decided it was time to learn how to make casts of animal tracks so we could find out who had been sharing those same
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I’ve been making lots of chocolate treats recently, not only for the family but as gifts. During the winter holidays I gave friends homemade blackberry vodka and chocolate truffles. Personally I adore it when someone gives me a box of luxury chocolates although the hard part is having to share them. With Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day both approaching,
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When my children were 5 we first started bird watching. There was an empty bird feeder in the tree outside our back deck and out of a whim I bought some bird feed one day to fill it up. Soon I had two very excited twins pointing at the red, blue and multi-coloured birds landing
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I find in winter that I think of my garden in a series of glimpses. Most of the time we’re indoors at home, just glancing at the landscape outside the windows, but preferring to warm ourselves in front of the fire. Sunrises come and go with the frost. Most seeds are sleeping under the soil waiting
I don’t know why but I was both excited and wary by the children’s book The Zodiac Legacy so I had to read it first. Maybe because I’ve lived, studied and worked in Mainland China and Hong Kong so I was curious how the characters’ superpowers originated from the 12 animals represented in the Chinese Zodiac. Well, I
