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100 Birds to See In Your Lifetime Review

100 Birds to See In Your Lifetime is a part aspirational encyclopedia and part identification guide, that provides detailed summary information and range maps, along with beautifully written profiles featuring unusual facts, anecdotes and its significance. This book title by David Chandler and Dominic Couzens published in 2008 has been revamped with a brand new cover and will be available to buy from 4th April 2019 onwards.

100 Birds to See In Your Lifetime Review

A visit to Sutton Park

After much stormy weather, last Saturday, we finally had a beautiful morning that we decided to go for a walk in the park. We live within easy reach of Sutton Coldfield but have never been to Sutton Park before. Sutton Park is a large urban park. Most of the park is a National Nature Reserve and large parts are also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

visit to sutton park field

JORD Wood Watches

Natural wood versus smartwatch. Natural wood wins! Not long ago, we came across JORD who are a wooden watches company and we fell in love with the notion of a timepiece that uses natural materials. Their watches look very unique and has proved to be quite the talking point.

JORD wood watch Fieldcrest Series black

Tuesday Tutorials Week 29 Leaf Art

Welcome to Week 29 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! We are in August now and we are preparing back to school materials and catching up with their school assignments. What about you?

tuesday tutorials leaf art

A day out at Barton Marina

Recently, I wrote a local guide for Lichfield for tots100 – if you have not seen it, click here.  Barton Marina is one of the places I mentioned.  It is a unique Trent & Mersey canal-side attraction with fantastic cafés and restaurants, shopping and fabulous walks around the beautiful lakes and woodlands.  We love to take our children there for a bike ride around the lakes and to eat ice cream.

Yesterday, we had our photo shoot to update our blog photo with our regular photographer – Susannah Conway Photography.  I am so excited that I can’t wait to update it soon!  After that, we drove down to Barton Marina for Thai food!  It had been a long time since we last ate Thai food!  They had a buffet menu and there was a good selection of foods.  It was very delicious and I would recommend going again.

Barton Marina Thai Food

National Geographic Kids Magazine Review

Mr K is at the age of being inquisitive about the workings of the world and wants to learn more about nature and wildlife. Yesterday, we went to Paradise Wild Park and he got so excited to meet the meerkats and have breakfast with the tigers!

The National Geographic Kids Magazine is everything an inquisitive young mind needs. Their mission is to get kids excited about their world. Inside this magazine, there are over 60 pages of interesting facts, pictures and information about the latest news about wildlife, games and puzzles. They also come with a poster, toy and fact cards in this November issue. Every issue will have different items in it.

National Geographic Kids

Exploring the Nature in Autumn

The intrepid Ms C loves to go exploring. However, short on time today and without the benefit of daddy C chauffeuring her around, she had to make do with exploring the garden. She was on the hunt for garden wildlife and before long, she spotted some sparrows hiding in the trees through her binoculars. Then a few brazen pigeons swooped in and sat on the fence, probably looking for a free lunch.

Exploring the Nature in Autumn

Nature Craft Family Day at Lichfield Pool Side

Hot, hot, hot! Unbelievable that the weather has just switched to Summer from all that rain!  The weather was so nice today that we even walked into the town. Mr K had his bicycle while Ms C was in her pram.  We went to the Nature Craft Family Day organised by the Lichfield District Council.It was for the children and parents to learn how to make a fish and bird feeder by using twigs, strings and all sorts of beads.  It was a brilliant idea!

Ms C was not too interested in crafts and didn’t manage to sit through.  She was more interested to feed the ducks at the pool than anything else. Mr K managed a bit longer but needed a lot of help from me.

These were the things what we made:

Nature Craft Family Day at Lichfield Pool Side

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Welcome to ET Speaks From Home. My name is Eileen, mother of two children aged 14 and 12 with visual impairment. We've been online since 2012 and continue to grow. I love to cook, craft, DIY, write about Chinese Culture and YouTube reviews.
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