Another very quiet day. It was raining, so nothing really enticed the kids outside (in other words, they watched a lot of iView and played a lot on Poisson Rouge). Despite being at home all day, it was generally peaceful (although Dylan went out for a couple of hours with her kids, which might have had something to do with it). Mr Bat took various smalls off with him on various errands. H “helped” him finish building the frame for my bathtub bed. Various empty egg cartons were mangled in different crafty endeavours. We actually picked up the detritus in the learning room. I cleaned my bedroom and Mr Bat brought Dylan’s old double bedframe inside and then adapted it to fit my wonky floor, so finally I have a flat surface to sleep on.

Later (in my nice clean room), K and I looked through a visual dictionary of herbs together, and we found one which looked very familiar, so we went outside and looked at the shrub we were both thinking of, and sure enough it turned out to be lemon verbena. Very cool. We also discovered that the wild mustard which has gone to seed all over the chook yard is actually the real deal, being both medicinal and edible, so we went out and collected some seeds. K is still fascinated by herbs and very excited that we will have an entire garden devoted to growing them. She asked me if she could have a garden of her own to grow herbs in when she’s old enough. I reckon 🙂