'Feathered Pencil Friends' are what the girls got out of their Advent Calender on Friday, these are so simple to make once you have the materials, for quick drying use hot glue..
The bible stories now tell the journey of Jesus' adult life, which are generating a lot of questions.
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Empty Lollipop Wrappers.Oops! I forgot to take a picture of the kids sweet treat out of the Advent Calender on Saturday.
Scotch Bonnet Chili Peppers
Saturday evening into night I finally got around to tidying up the conservatory which meant cleaning up the recently aphid infested over wintering plants. In doing so I also harvested all the usable scotch bonnet peppers to make a some chili jelly (hopefully). The chili plants on the left as you can see were badly infested, along with the Greek basil. I trimmed every thing back to about 6" including the not so badly affected Vietnamese coriander, washed them all in a weak solution of soapy water and gave everybody got a light watering to keep them ticking over. Hopefully the basil and the chili plants will make it through the winter, the lemon grass (which was not trimmed back and had no aphids) and the V.coriander I think will be just fine.
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I find icicles fascinating, ever since I was a little girl in the hot West Indies I have longed to see the icicles I would read about or hear about over the news that sometimes maimed/ killed people in the States during their freezing winters.
I am yet to see monster killer icicles but with the recent cold weather I am finally seeing fairly decent size icicles forming. and I can't help photographing them. The one in the center above is the same one on the left but a few hours later when it has grown some more.
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The Trini song today I think goes perfectly with the themes of the bible stories of late. It is parang influenced and I hope you all enjoy it.
Scotch bonnets and icicles in the same blog post, just don't seem right :D
ReplyDeleteI love icicles too...i remember when we were children my sister and I used to open our bedroom windows to break them off the eaves and eat them like ice lollies...I think we thought it was great but now I'm not so sure..lol
ReplyDeleteMangocheeks, now that you mention it, you're right it doesn't seem right? :)
ReplyDeleteTanya, my little one wanted one and I naively thought it was to take a closer look at it but nope she ate it too. She would have had more but the idea that she would be eating small amounts of bird poo was a serious deterrent to letting her have more, blech!!