Autumn in black and white

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The car boot sale

One of Sunnyboy's favourite places to go for a day out at the moment is the car boot sale,



and he especially likes to play in his Nana's car.







See more reflections at Weekend Reflections

Autumn colours (Nozy's Nature Pictures)

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The fireworks display

I first took Sunnyboy to our city fireworks display when he was two and a half months old and we've been every year since. Last year we arrived and found a place to stand among the crowd of 25,000 people, then I looked to the right and discovered we were standing next to our friends Daze and T. This year we decided to go together. T couldn't make it but Daze called round for us and we walked into town to watch the fireworks with him.

Contrasts

Corner View is hosted by Spain Daily and we are invited to post pictures telling the stories of our different lives and cultures. This week's theme is Contrasts.


Light and Dark (July 2009)


Big and Small (April 2009)


Near and Far (September 2009)

Jane from Spain Daily is away travelling for a few weeks so Corner View will be hosted by Dana at Lumignano: Home Base.
Corner Views from around the world:

jane, ladybug-zen, ian, bonnie, esti, sophie, cele, modsquad,

caitlin, joyce, ani, kim, natsumi, epe, kaylovesvintage, trinsch, c.t., jeannette, outi, ritva, francesca, state of bliss, jennifer, dana, denise, cabrizette, bohemia girl, isabelle, amber, a girl in the yellow shoes, mister e, janis, kari, jgy, skymring, elizabeth, allison, lise, cate, crescent moon, erin, otli, ida, caroline, lisa, dorte, kimmie, la lune dans le ciel, nicola, malo, vanessa, britta, april, b, kyndale samantha, karen, kristina, goldensunfamily, sophie, janet, mcgillicutty, aimee, sunnymama, jenell, britta, juanita, pamela, inna, daan, myrtille, cris, ibb, jodi, gillian, travelingmama, athena, pienduzz, latisha, clairette, kelleyn, iris, demara, mus, ninja, guusje, di, sammi, theresa, cherry b, victoria, kathryn , lisa, liza, juliette, braja, mulot, anne, lucy, leonor, elizabeth, helene, dominique, shokoofeh, cole, jenna, podane, grey-lemon, line, nihal, urbaNiche, inner toddler, puna, lucylaine, adrienne, emily, lynn, skywriting, eliane, the wanderer´s daughter, carole, anna, dorit, kenza

Home Education at the Country Park

On Monday our local home education group met up at a nearby Country Park. We were just leaving to go and catch the bus to get there when Little Friend and Little Friend's Mum came round for a surprise visit. So they decided to come to the home education group too.



Little Friend did some climbing,



and Sunnyboy found some mud.





















Today we're going on a river cruise with the home education group.

See more outdoor pictures at Outdoor Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

See more Wordless Wednesdays at 5 Minutes for Mom, Extraordinary Mothers, Stay At Home Mom, The OmniCouple, Momspective, Healthy Moms, Latina on a Mission, Run DMT and Momdot

Balloon

I ♥ Faces is a photography site focused on the art of capturing faces and their various emotions. This week’s photo challenge theme is 'Balloons'.


January 2007

Leaves in the bath

Last autumn we collected a large bin bag of dry leaves from the garden and filled up the bath with leaves for Sunnyboy to play in. Of course, he also played in the leaves in the garden but I thought indoor leaf play would be fun too. He really enjoyed it and was busy in the bath arranging leaves for a long time, eventually pouring water on them and playing with soggy leaves. Our bathroom smelt of autumn for days.


October 2008

See more Monday Memories at Planet M Files
See more Works For Me Wednesdays at We Are That Family
See more Kid Friendly Fridays at I Blame My Mother
See more Friday's Nature Tables at The Magic Onions

A Halloween party

Last week the Co-op children had a Halloween party planning meeting. Sunnyboy's contributions to the meeting included suggesting we have cake and peas as party food. He was delighted when a couple of days later this invitation came through our letterbox. He pegged it up with his art display, so he could 'read' it and look forward to the party.



For the party Sunnyboy dressed up as Buzz Lightyear. He was very impressed with the other costumes and the Halloween decorations.





He had a wonderful time dancing at the Spooky Disco.









After dinner and dancing we went out to do "tickle treat".





Then the party continued with more dancing, party games and apple bobbing.









"Happy Alloween!"

Puddles (Nozy's Nature Pictures)

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Stop and Hear the Music

Pearls Before Breakfast

Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.
By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10

HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play.

It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by. Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. L'Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and these were mostly mid-level bureaucrats with those indeterminate, oddly fungible titles: policy analyst, project manager, budget officer, specialist, facilitator, consultant.



...There was no ethnic or demographic pattern to distinguish the people who stayed to watch Bell, or the ones who gave money, from that vast majority who hurried on past, unheeding. Whites, blacks and Asians, young and old, men and women, were represented in all three groups. But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. And every single time, a parent scooted the kid away.

...for the rest of the article go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...


*The inspiration for Conscious Friday comes from Se'Lah at Necessary Room.