I’m a great lover of maps. I can spend many a happy hour poring over maps, especially local maps, looking for a new, undiscovered corner to discover. So you can imagine my delight when Rose drew her first map (that I’m aware of anyway). It had some islands on it that we lived on and some houses, and lots of sea. She’ll be appreciating the tilt feature in Google Earth and flying around the landscape in no time. She also is coming on with her letters, is starting to recognise some more and starting to draw shapes resembling letters, so not long to go there.

After all this acedemic study it was time to let off steam, so Lisa, Jake, Rose and M, who’s staying with us at the moment, went down to Cai Bach beach to have a romp around – I stayed at home and went up to the round house.