..........FRANNY.........

[TooTicky]

Hi, I've just been reading about heuristics and treasure baskets - thank you so much for the information - and I am thinking "wow!" and "how wonderful!" and "I could do that!" and "bugger, why didn't I know about this earlier?!"
I LOVE the idea of treasure baskets but my youngest is 12 mo so I suppose she should maybe be on the next stage? What do you think?
I am super-keen, slightly skint but expert at trawling charity shops.
Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated!

noted. citrus fruit yes, nasal discharge no.
gotcha.

also, we were at the beach the other day and we found a rather attractive circular piece of driftwood... now, can that go in? how the hell do i clean the undoubted litres of pollution off it? i'm not too paranoid abuut cleanliness but i do draw the line at sewage.

bogeys are technically food stuffs??
remind me never to come to your house for tea aitch

PMSL at your drawing the line at sewage - have just put it on quote of the week thread, Aitch

Oh, just microwave it, or dip it in Milton's or something. I've got driftwood in my baskets.

i am a domestic goddess, harpsichordcarrier, but i have been known to have a nasal rummage every now and again.

So that is just me, then?

good idea about the milton, F&Z, i am so monumentally slack about sterilising that i quite forgot about its existence.

I gave dd some cuttlefish bones a few weeks back on a beach in Dorset. They were still wet and slightly icky. DW wasn't too impressed, but I should have argued they were essential for her future heuristic play development.

I did buy cuttlefish once, thinking they would be good, but they disintegrate in the mouth instead of being hard as I had assumed. I found this from testing them myself I am vegetarian as well

Oh and hub I have been crap at keeping up with my email but I will get there.

LOL. Yes, they are for budgies. Sorry to hear your outstanding veggie record was smashed by a dead squid. No worries on the e-mail. I am the most slack person you might never meet.

Is that what they are, squid?

It wasn't so much the tarnishing of my record, as the fact I physically don't like eating fish or meat, funnily enough

Smells like squid, looks like squid , but I think it might be a mollusk actually. (Hey - read the wiki site - they can sink in the water by altering their gas content or sommit... wow).

I am also a veggie; no meat no fish. You weren't eating meat of fish; if anything just chewing a little bone.

Hey Franny, in your house, do you actually sing 'There were 10 in the bed and the little one said' with real actions, and get someone to fall out ?

Calcium Carbonate ? That's chalk, franny. You are safe. You just sucked a little chalk. No harm done.

It was fishy chalk - revoltingly fishy, believe me, you wouldn't want to suck it. And from where I'm sitting, vegetarians don't eat bones, especially not ones that crumble in your mouth and leave them covered with fishy chalk

I am rising above the 10 in the bed thing (he made us buy him his own bed a couple of months ago )

Only asked because there's a lovely version of the nursery rhyme on a CD we just got (Sally Gardner's Playtime Rhymes) and I thought of you, LOL.