We did it, we did it (et cetera)
Aprilia has been hankering after the Dora Scrabble for ages and I finally ammased enough Argos voucvhers from doing on-line surveys to buy it. It’s not what you would call earth shatteringly exciting but she loves it and sat building words with it happily for hours this morning (that would be literacy and MFL then… it has Spanish too!) so I’m calling it a good buy.
this afternoon she made the plaster castings she got for her birthday - they will be painted tomorrow. She got a sudden fit of nerves pouring the stuff and insisted I did the rest but then happily squished the magnets into the nearly set plaster. We have enough casting powder to do several more sets so I’m sure she will get into the swing of pouring soon enough 
Then she got hte paint your own mug and bowl kit out and did a lovely job on that, painted a flower on the mug then did the rest in blocks of colour and did a yellow handle, then did hte bowl in blocks of colour with a nice neat rim.
Then she did some painting.
Then daddy came home and she insisted he had another go at sorting something on her PC. Okay so the "we did it" doesn’t apply here, we still can’t do it…. it appears that the CD she wants to play absolutely HAS to go in the D drive. She doesn’t have a CD drive called D…. she has a DVD drive with an identity crisis 
So, can anyone point me to downloadable Dora games taht will run on Linux? No? Will settle for downloadable running in Windows and hope that the emulator can sort it out? Ho hum.
Tomorrow I have my first tutorial. I’ve never had a tute before - i don’t really count the on-line ones last year as I was in the comfort of my own room! I’m ridiculously nervous but looking forwrad to it.
