Pyjama days and different interests

We've been rather poorly this week, nothing really nasty just very horrible colds. One of the lovely things about HE is that I find we actually end up learning just as much on those days as we do on days we do more obviously 'learn-y' stuff.

On Tuesday K and I came down with the stinky cold that A had very kindly given us. M was a bit under the weather but more poorly in sympathy than actuality. So the three of us snuggled on the sofa and watched films. We watched Prince Caspian (and compared it to the BBC tv series that we've already seen and to the book), Singin' in the Rain (and talked about the development of the film industry, due to technological advances) and Swallows and Amazons (for the umpteenth time - we're looking forward to going to see it at the theatre in a musical adaptation next month).

We went to Wildlife Watch group yesterday at Rushcliffe Country Park, where there seems to be more and more to do each time we go. I have promised we'll go and spend the day there when the weather is better. We decorated some really lovely quality books, which we obtained from a scrap store (covers misprinted for schools), with the idea of using them as nature journals. And we also brought home an owl pellet.

This afternoon M happily spent an hour or so dissecting the pellet and finding lots of bones and attempting to identify them, while K stayed well away. There are a *lot* of bones in an owl pellet, we found dozens and those are mostly the bigger ones, mostly rodent or shrew skulls, jawbones, leg bones and the occasional scapula we think. There's still plenty left to go through, just think how tiny a mouse's vertebrae are! Oh and I think I will buy myself some new tweezers...