early random planting
needed to go to the garden centre today (out of guinea pig food and Asda no longer sell the one and only brand that my picky missies will deign to eat but the little pet shop at the garden centre still sells it) and couldn’t quite manage to walk past the seeds without picking up a few packets. So I came home with french lavender, window sill random herb collection and a random "colourful and crunchy" mixed salad leaves affair. This sparked a sudden interest in growing things so she grabbed some stray seed packets (wouldn’t let her loose with what I’d just bought…I know, cruel mama) and we now have broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, daffodils, nastursiums and some other unidentified bulbs all arrayed on my living room windowsill. Some of them even have some form of label on them so we can see what they are. Most of them are in proper pots but there’s a scattering on some tissue in an egg shell to cover one of the clauses in a Brownie badge although why they have to specify growing seeds in an egg shell I’ve no idea, surely growing something properly or growing a bean or pea seed in a jamjar so you can see root formation etc. would be more in the spirit of a "science investigator" badge? Ho hum, some of the badge clauses are so damned random! Anyway, we are going to observe how they go, the seeds are all out of date ones (oops, really much use up what I buy, when I buy it!) and we have no idea what some of the bulbs are so I’m calling it a PROPER science investigation 
Tomorrow we start back into a sort of routine and Aprilia also wants to do a poster or scrap book for one of the many other Brownie badges she is on a mission to complete at the moment. So I need to get some pics and phrases printed off for her then I’m planning on attacking the kitchen cupboard whislt she is up to her eyebrows in glue and thus happily entertained and occupied! I may get brave and do "before and after" pics of that particular corner of chaos within one of the many "rooms of doom" in my home! I’ve also promised her a bit of baking and a bit of practical science just so long as she does her "normals" without too much protest. And I may even let her scatter some herb and salad seeds into something if I manage to find enough windowsill to propogate them on! (sigh, I soooo need The Bean’s conservatory!)
