Class 1 Caterpillars Easter Holiday

One thursday morning, the warm sun came up and pop! along came the postman with a pot of five very tiny but very hungry caterpillars. They started to look for some food, for them no leaves, apples, pears, strawberries, oranges or plums.  They had some special brown goo at the bottom of the pot to eat.
After one week with class 1 they had to go on their Easter Holidays.

Here is their blog post showing how they changed during the holidays.

4th April 2014

5th April 2014
They grew bigger....

7th April 2014

and bigger.....

8th April 2014

They span silk nets all over the pot.

9th April 2014

They got fatter... and bigger...

10th April 2014

Then they started to crawl to the top of the pot ready.....

11th April 2014

They span small silk pads on the paper under the lid.

12th April 2014

Finally the first caterpillar hangs upside down in the characteristic J shape.

14th April 2014

The caterpillar skin splits open and the final stage of the caterpillar is to pupate (become chrysalides) which get harder after several days.

22nd April 2014

The caterpillars returned to class 1 after their Easter Holiday, ready to be transferred into the Butterfly habitat for when they emerge........

A New Years Resolution

Well at least it is still January, and what an eventful start to the year it has been......

Rather a lot of snow has fallen, enough to have us snowed in for 10 days. We have had beautiful views and walks, fun playtimes and wonderful help and company from fantastic neighbours. It has been exciting, challenging and cold very very cold. We have been OK on food supplies, but have had periods of no water supply due to ice in pumps and pipes, and have run very low on the wood supplies. We have now escaped on day 10, which involved men at working digging out two tracks up the driveway.

Anyway as the title hints writing a blog is new to me and I resolved a while ago that I would start writing one this new year.

Choosing a Name

A lot of idle thinking has been done over a name for my blog, it had to be some thing which was very me, but not any version of my name, I also wanted it to reflect my new found interests and new style of living after our move to the country and my new life at home. And so the crocheted chicken appeared in my head, and I liked it, it was silly, it recognised two very important new additions in my life (not important like children, but things I am very pleased to have discovered :-)).