Showing posts with label t-shirt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label t-shirt. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 July 2011

This is perfectly normal for OUR family.

We had a sad discovery this afternoon. Three fledging blue tits drowned in our unused pond which had tipped up and collected rainwater. I assume that they fledged out of a nest in the apple tree then went plop into the water.





Of course in a usual (normal?) household this would simply be a sad event. In our family...



ds1 began to dig a hole in our lawn.



He said 'If you put this on your blog I want people to know I'm not burying the birds because I care. It's because I want them to decompose and then in a few months time I can dig them back up and examine their bones. I haven't got a bird skeleton yet.'


I can hardly accuse my children of being odd seeing as it was me taking photos of dead birds on our back lawn...

Another thing that is perfectly normal in our house. Taking an old outgrown t-shirt like this (with too-short, chewed sleeves) :



and converting it (with ample cursing over a sewing machine) into a new, extended sleeve, t-shirt using scraps of blue t-shirt.




Ditto this one which was an adult t-shirt got for free from the local Swap Shop,



now converted to a long-sleeve child's t-shirt:







And as if that isn't enough to classify us as slightly odd compared with the rest of the population, some of us have daughters who spend the whole day like this: