Trying out the lego app for the iPhone. The only good thing about it that I can see at the minute are the sound effects.

Today was Charlie’s christening with family and God parents travelling from far and wide to decend on our village’s small church. Our main problem was how to fit everyone into our little house afterwards for food and drink so we had to restrict the numbers somewhat but as we all had a little corner of the church around the font, it all looked rather cute.

We thought we timed it well with his sleeps and food so that the boy wouldn’t be grumpy when his big moment arrived but sadly no, he decided to have a bit of a cry and only stopped when his head was wet. I have to say the acoustics are rather good in a Norman church when Charlie really goes for it.

Anyway, it was all back to ours for food and drink and to admire the splendid cake make by our neighbour.

About a year and a half ago I mentioned a site which allowed you to submit ideas (read it here). I stumbled on another this week called the Creativity Pool. Although the site looks incredably dated like something out of the 90s, the idea behind it is a really good one by creating a free pool of global innovation and future inventions. Pop by and take a look and maybe submit a couple of ideas of your own.

I can’t believe Charlie is six months old today, the time has flown by at an alarming rate. In a bid to record the moments we’ve been recording the everyday goings on through photographs, diary entries and drawings. This is becoming a very special journal. I hope to feel closer to him and more connected as I document his start in life. I also hope that when he reads our thoughts and ramblings in the years to come that he will be very appreciative.

We’re finding that winter is a rather tough time for our chickens and I think this has contributed to Mildred’s ill health lately. She hasn’t been well for quite a few days now and it doesn’t look good unfortunately. Theres been talk of putting her out of her misery but none of us can bring ourselves to do it, I’ve even thought about releasing her into the fields behind the house but that would be rather cruel if she were to get gobbled up by Mr Fox. So instead it was back to converting the disused out house like before to make her as comfortable as possible.

Mildred has always been the smallest of all our girls and shes been with us for over a year now. She had a bit of a rough time being at the bottom of the pecking order but soon settled in and was getting into mischief. She even figured out along with her partner in crime that she could use the cat flap in the back door to enter the house and nibble our cat’s food.

She was always reliable when it came to laying eggs too though you could always tell which eggs belonged to her due to their funny shape and size.

Its horrible when pets are ill.

I know it may sound a little odd but I have been collecting rocks for over ten years now (see a previous post about my collection here). The plan is to keep a stone/rock from the memorable places I visit and then return them all when I retire, revisiting the places I enjoyed when I was younger.

I pulled out a few of the more memorable items in my collection and photographed them. I then made a mini zine out of them and these will soon be hidden away in geology library books for the public to discover and hopefully enjoy.

If you would like a copy (or just a random zine pluked from the many I make) just drop me an email with your address and I’ll pop one in the post for you. Please pop by my new zine site, the Rusty Rocket for regular updates.

I would also be interested to hear what things you collect too.