Ponies and Geese

All is well in the Collins household. Busy week, another night out for me, this time with SWEA. I'm not officially a member anymore, but a few Swedish women and I meet for dinner on a semi-regular basis and it's always great to get a chance to speak Swedish. Also, since quite a few of them have children now, we're facing the same challenges with bi-linguaism, so great to swap experiences and learn from each other.

Vera and I have continued our walks and last night she shouted at some horses at the end of our street as well as a cat. She gets very excited by animals!

She continues to have a great time at nursery and eats well. She loves reading and in the Piglets room they have a little den with sheep skin and lots of books and she crawls in there and sits enjoying all the books.
They have asked us to bring in Swedish books (with hints on pronounciation) and they will read them to her.
She has a favourite book at nursery: "Who are you baby kangaroo", and on Friday she had walked up to each of the staff members, one by one, and got them to read the book to her. When she had worked through them all, she had wandered over to the babies and "read" the book to them!

Today the weather is gorgeous so we walked through the allotments to the playground, went on the swings and watched some of the junior football matches that took place on the green.

After lunch we went for a drive and then to the Gog Magog farm shop where Vera had a great time saying hello to the mini ponies, the geese and the turkeys. This was followed by coffee outside. Gorgeous!
Bought some cream, olives and free range eggs in the shop and now I'm enjoying cooking beef with a celeriac duphnois (rotsellerigratin). Sounds very pretentious, but have always wanted to try celeriac after seeing it on countless cookery shows.

Have a lovely weekend!