Sculptures from finest vegetables

Last night was cubs, and we were organising it this time around.  The theme was 'vegetable sculptures'.  It all went very well - I thought that the last thing that 25 preteen boys (and one girl) would want to do is art with vegetables, and my heart sank when 10 min after we started, one of them had already finished, having built a fantastic giraffe out of spuds, carrots and a soggy zucchini!  What to do for the next 50 min?!

  

But, they all knuckled down and worked hard on their creations.  Our biggest problem was getting some of them to stop working because it was getting late!  Well... maybe our second biggest problem.  Our biggest problem was the knife injuries - two boys had really deep cuts on their fingers, one managed to get his thumb and his middle finger at once!  They were deep enough that I was seriously considering a trip to A&E for some stitches.  But band-aids seemed to do the trick.

Another good morning with Toby this morning - but again, he slept in.  Then he had a shower - and curled up at the bottom of the shower!  We really need to put in our bath, ay.  But he got himself ready by himself - found his clothes, made his breakfast (rice bubbles), cleaned his teeth - all with little or no prompting.  So we were off to school more or less on time.  But, I missed the early bus - not really a bother but I had to spend 15min waiting at the bus stop.  The wind has swung around to the south and it was freezing for once.  I huddled in my snowboard jacket and it wasn't too bad.  Bring it on I say, we've only got 3 weeks til our ski holiday so the colder and snowier the better!!  We need it to be consistently sub-zero so they can run the snow guns, and a few massive storms would not go astray at all.  C'mon, where's our winter GONE?