Eco Blog 10: The Do Lectures

This is the easiest eco blog ever - simply passing on a cool howies link for "the do lectures". As the site advertises:

Let the Doers of the world inspire the rest of us.
The Do lectures are all about getting a handful of speakers together in one place, in the hope that they may inspire you to go Do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.

http://www.dolectures.co.uk/

I must also add: a huge welcome to the new Nielsen addition - griffin. He looks amazing in the pics and now we only need to meet him in the flesh.

The Mine Woods Challenge

Savvy emerges triumphant after walking from the top of Mine Woods to the bottom (solo), including some dodgy bike jumps and giant stairs.

After a nice walk, we ditched the kid for the night and had a lovely time at the wedding reception for Tracy and Iain - an awesome night to celebrate a very cool couple.

Throwing Stones

The little one has inherited MegaDob's love for throwing stones. Sadly, the water is rising and the "stone zone" will soon be swallowed by the river Allan. She likes to carry around her little red boots, but she's not so keen on wearing them so we can't even wade in a little.

A mini update on her progress:

Savvy is now choosing all of her outfits. She does pjs a lot as a base layer. But sometimes pjs over jeans. Prada Christmas dress over pjs. Pjs over pjs. The backpack is a key accessory. Coats (and I mean multiple) over her backpack which is over her dress which is over her pjs. Socks that don't match. Shoes that don't match. Nappies over trousers. A whole lot of naked. And any a zillion combinations of the above. I use to explain when we got to nursery but now I just pass her over.

She's all about the potty. Talking about the potty and pointing to it, I mean.

She spends a lot of time in the naughty corner. She even puts herself there now after a tantrum or one of her famous food throwing incidents. It's the quietest 60 seconds of the day.

She's about 50+ words behind her "colleagues" of a similar age. (She has three words, and that's including animal sounds. Without "oof off" (dog barking), we're screwed). But we're not worried since she can out climb the lot.

We're pretty excited about Halloween, except she's a bit afraid of my costume. And since my costume is the same as her costume, it could be pretty slow going!

All for now.

Lossiemouth

A four hour drive, heaps of snacks, and presto - we were in Lossiemouth! A lovely B&B and an easy peasy meeting with the Scottish Swimming North District, and the weekend was ours. No dolphins were spotted, but we had cracking sunsets and found a handful of excellent play parks along the sea.