Bindweed

I pulled up a lot of this yesterday !  

Give me your local folkloric names for this beauty .

Granny Pop Out of Bed  is one name , also a game that children used to like to play making the corolla pop out of the calyx . Supposed to look like grandma sitting up in bed saying her prayers !

Do children still play games such as these ?  🤔 

  Things to try during the Summer holidays .

 Making Daisy chains .

Buttercups - Do you like butter ? See if it glows under your chin ? 

Making the dragon snap with Snapdragon flowers .

Making loud squealing noises with a blade of grass or a reed  over their thumbs and blowing .

Making owl hoots by cupping your hands and thumbs together tightly and blowing through the tiny gap between thumbs .

Wolf Whistle . 

Whistle for the dog ...a good long loud whistle .

Whistle ..... can you whistle a proper piece of music ...in tune ! ...and with feeling .... with heart felt emotion ......really , really sad or what about really happy like the Flora Dance or a joyful marching song ? 

Find a four leafed Clover .......for very good luck ! 🍀

Press wild flowers , ferns and grasses .

Plait or weave a wedding ring out of grass .

Make a St Brigids Day Cross .

Weave a Corn Dolly  . 

Weave a simple basket .  

Make a really fantastic sandcastle on the beach ! No , I mean a really super-dooper sandcastle !

With a proper moat and draw bridge .

Make a Stone Henge and enjoy a fantastic picnic sitting in it . 

Make a sand mermaid , decorate with stones and shells .

Better still ...make a sand dinosaur ! 🦖🐬🦕🦈

Make a labyrinth ..if there's space on the beach ...everybody loves them .

Press different types of sea weeds , make a nice collection .

Find heart stones , sea glass , seashells , fossils , funny face stones 🤪🥴😶

I'll be making another little washing up bowl pond with my granddaughter to replace the one I did a few years back with my grandson . It's in my cool and shady secret fern garden . They are both big enough now for me to not worry about them falling in .  

 It'll be some brilliant muddy messy and watery fun !

Painting  and crafting .

Nature walks , climb trees , paddle in streams , find tadpoles , frogs .

Earning pocket money for doing jobs about the house and garden ....you'll find they love that one !

Paint the garden furniture ,wash windows , pick and shell peas ,  help me to find and fill my baskets with fir-cones and kindling ready for the winter.

I'm thinking of ideas .....  things that are interesting , mostly quiet , educational and teaches a skill , fun ,  more importantly .... FREE !

Of course we'll be out and about visiting some of the wonderful ancient places around Cornwall .

Lanyon Quoit , Men-an-Tol , Ding Dong Mine , the Sacred Tree with clouties and the  Holy Well at Sancreed , stone circles and fogous . We will visit the woods at Roundwood Trelissick , the Dry Stone at Goonhilly to name a few of our favourites . 

   Mine love playing water guns with my plant squishers  , involves lots of running , hiding and screaming . 

  It's an upgrade on the old fashioned rather boring game of "hide'n'seek ".....now called "Find and Squish " . It's a good one for a blistering hot day !   🤣

So I'm just thinking of all the things we can do ....and waffling ....the men arrived very early and are busy re-doing the drive ..it's loud and dusty !  It had to be done ! 

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 CHILDREN 

They break up for their school summer holibobs next week  .  .  .  

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