Today our little world is uniformly cool and grey. Feels almost autumnal. I suspect no Sun today. Rewind the clock a few days and it was a very different story. Looking out over the farmers fence and one thing struck me – that’s a big sky.
Living on top of a hill with no surrounding mountains and no tall buildings, nothing blocks out the sky. It does create the impression of a big sky. On days like the one above, it can be so impressive.
It might be grey but it’s now time for some more big sky thinking.
“Dad, I have to start a project for school. For last weeks lesson I had to describe my own version of Middle Earth or Narnia. Well today’s lesson we now need to create a 3D version of this. The teacher says that we can use whatever we have in the house to build it. This might be a daft question but since the lesson started 10 minutes ago …. do we have any plasticine or playdoh in”
No…
“Do we have enough newspaper and glue to make a papermache model”
No…
“Do we have enough green, brown and blue lego to make a mountain landscape, with rivers, waterfalls and massive valleys.”
We do have lego but it would have to be a real multicoloured, mixed up type of landscape.
“If I had realised that I would have to actually build this world then I would have definitely lowered by creative threshold. Maybe a small desert island with one tree and a rock. A really small, boring islands set in a randomly coloured lego world”
We tried to create his complicated world with cushions and rugs.
“It’s a bit rubbish but at least we had the stuff. Problem is that we can’t leave our creation on the floor as it’s a pet magnet. We will need the world for lessons in the coming weeks and I don’t fancy building this every time we have this lesson.”
So we are moving to Plan C. After we have hopefully finished his other project which needs handing in, then we will be trying to make his world using flour dough. Could be messy.
Maybe leave the pillows on the floor and incorporate the pets into the world’s lore? Every good fantasy needs a few beasts of the realm…
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Yes that’s an idea.
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I know this isn’t specific to this post, but I just realised as I clicked on this post that reading this blog is as integral to my daily routine as to checking the news 🙂
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Me too!
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Me three!
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That’s very kind of you sir. You could have said as going to the toilet is part of the daily routine. I would have settled for that as well.
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That is so wrong…😆
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could be messy…………. or fun! Do you have any cooking colourants? Could you make pastry and dye it (then throw it away unless you fancied eating something bright and beautiful?)
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A few so could be fun.
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Can you use flour dough and things from the garden? 🤔
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That’s the plan. Suspect I’m not eating the dough after this.
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God no!!! Photos please 🙏
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You never know.
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Hmm…. flour dough might work if allowed to harden out by drying.
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Yes that’s we are hoping for.
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Order some play dough from amazon! As a backup
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I looked at that. They won’t deliver until after the next lesson.
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Well, on with flour dough!
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Much fun.
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😂
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But your son has a very creative mind!!
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He’s got a good mind which has not been straight jacketed yet.
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Blessings to him!
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Thank you
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You are very welcome, Gary!
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Do it! There are some salt dough recipes, but they usually end up with salt everywhere for me….
How about mud?
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That’s an option looking at the weather. If the dough fails then that’s the next option. x
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That is a big sky! I want some sun too. Hope the project works out!
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Fingers crossed.
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I’m sure schools do it on purpose. It sounds great when you’re writing the lesson plan but often difficult for parents to orchestrate!
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Some do it really well.
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Good luck!
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Thank you
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Sounds messy and fun!!
Staring up at a big sky like that sometimes gives me vertigo. It’s much better to lay down and look up.
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Not today you would get you bottom wet on the grass.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
COULD BE…MESSY!
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Thank you
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Yowsa!
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Yowsa is a much underused word.
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So much so that I was apparently misspelling it—as in “Yowza”—or is that a variation of the word?
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It’s still a great word.
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WORKS FOR ME! YOWSA, YOWZA!
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Going to use it more.
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GO FOR IT! 😀
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Okay……In addition to where the summer has now gone, I am just wondering re the school expecting any model to be handed in right now? Bit universe questions actually but surely something we will next be asked to get our heads round . . .
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Who are we to query those requiring models.
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I know alas……. We do not possess their extensive skill…. But I hear a song…’ Where has all the summer gone? Short time pass-assing… ‘ SOrry but no wonder.
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I can imagine you signing that. x
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probably not with my voice but I could well play it.
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You will be a better singer than me
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debatable…
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I think this kid is pretty lucky in his dad.
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Thank you
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Love that shot. Gorgeous.
Can he build a better world than the one we have? I mean, Mother Earth, herself, is fine but, society? He has a sharp mind…
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Yes, especially the waterfall which is made of Mountain Dew.
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Excellent!
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What about making it from actual earth?
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That’s the final plan. It’s a bit muddy though.
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Good luck!!
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Thank you
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Sounds so familiar! Sigh.
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Nothing is straight forward.
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I like the way you handled the project. And glad you guys had fun creating a middle earth pet magnet! Who would have guessed?
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Now we got to keep the pets of the dough.
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You are an amazingly flexible and creative father.
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Messy, maybe – but ingenious
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Thank you
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