Wednesday 31 March 2010
Wheezles, sneezles and princesses
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Easter Baskets (Part II)
Monday 29 March 2010
Easter Baskets (Part I)
Friday 26 March 2010
Result!
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Guitar Girl
Tuesday 23 March 2010
An Early Start
Sunday 21 March 2010
Post-film posters
Friday 19 March 2010
Rocket Science
Thursday 18 March 2010
Where's Wall.E?
Ploutering Away
Tuesday 16 March 2010
All creatures great and small
Monday 15 March 2010
Spring Clean
Saturday 13 March 2010
Rabbit Pie
During breakfast this morning, Daisy decided she would like a story by candlelight (there was one left on the table from a rare grown-up dinner time the night before). We shared a lovely breakfast reading Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit; its illustrations being gently illuminated by daytime candlelight (one of my favourite things). When we got to the page where Mrs Rabbit warns Peter about the dangers of Mr McGregor’s garden, ‘Your father had an accident there. He was put into a pie by Mrs McGregor,’ Daisy asked what was meant by having an accident and being put in a pie.
I explained that some people eat rabbit, and that is what had happened to Peter’s father. Buddy, her brother, said he would never eat rabbit. ‘I would hate to.’ And Daisy, not to be out done gave her view on the matter. ‘If I ate rabbit, it would make me do a big burp.’
When I asked why, she replied, ‘It would make me a do a big burp because of its big ears.’ And this from a three year old who announced she was a ‘vegetawian’ not two days ago. Love it.
This has given me the idea of using The Tale of Peter Rabbit as the story in my next Nursery Rhyme Time at the
One of my sessions is called Lavender’s Blue and now I have my story idea, I think. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published in 1902. So it’s right time-wise, with a lovely garden setting too. Maybe we won’t use candlelight in the museum though, there are Health and Safety issues of course. But they do have a lovely LED candle that fits into an authentic Victorian candlestick. Hmmm. That should set the atmosphere nicely.