Chapter One of Ely Plot!

Ely Cathedral Learning Fun for Families has started reading aloud a chapter a week of Ely Plot, with different activities afterwards!  To have access to the activities, you can join their group on Facebook, and to have a listen to each chapter as it happens, you can pop over via my Facebook page here.  Really pleased about this! 

The Moral of Smelly Vellum

I'm over an An Awfully Big Blog Adventure today, saying words I have never said in real life.

Introducing the Baroque Bassoon

Peter Whelan and a gorgeous bit of tubing

(because very few of us have enough bassoon in our lives)

Skivvy and Cuttle

Skivvy and Cuttle appears on Day 9 of Robert Topps' Story-a-Day for Stir-Crazy Kids!  You can listen to it here, and read it here.

(Some of the other places this story has found a home.)

From Bare Sticks to ...

Hard to believe it was only 3 weeks ago we were planting trees at Kinclaven Wood - it seems much MUCH longer!  Anyway, here are 2 little trees we planted in pots last year - just bare sticks they were - and look at them now!