Travelog for: Zed Dog

Mummy and us welcomed a new toyvoyager to stay.

His name is KalliHH

Mummy had put in some dried fruit for soaking in brandy the other day.

Today, we will make the Christmas cake.

The butter and sugar is being creamed.

Eggs were added.

Flour, spices, the fruit, nuts and treacle also get added.

The cake will take 4 hours in the oven, after our bedtimes. Maybe we'll have a photo with it when the cake is fed some more brandy.

Today, we've come out late to Porthmadog to find a Geocache.

We are in a bird hide. Porthmadog is a coastal town and is sited on the estuary of the River Glaslyn. On another occasion, Mummy saw a red-breasted merganser bird.

I can't see any birds out there.

This is a geocache, with the logsheets in a 35mm film canister. It is getting dark and time to go home.

Mummy is doing this jigsaw puzzle.

She isn't quite finished yet...

Luc Zeke is leaving today.

For travel, he's popped back into his egg. ...

Oh dear...

There's a piece missing....

We went to grandma's for Christmas.

My family started the tree without us.

These lights work!

We hid among the tinsels

What is behind us in the wrapping paper?

Gold!

We've come out for a New Year's Eve walk to the beach

This is (old) Hunstanton beach, faces west but is on the East coast of England.

There's a lot of people over there. What are they looking at?
Oh dear, poor whale. According to one of the locals, it had died out at sea.

The brown layer is Carrstone, a sandstone with cement. Above, there is red and white chalk.

This is an old lighthouse.

I like the way the sand is rippled.

There isn't as much white chalk on the cliff, some had fallen down.

Tomorrow is a new year

Let's celebrate with some cake

We got back home safely but haven't done much. Travelling is tiring!
A package arrived

Henrik came to see us! Someone new to talk to!

However, Mr Wilson and KalliHH are leaving tomorrow.

Today, we went to Garden Organic's Ryton Gardens near Coventry for a Potato Day.

Look at all these spuds!

There were so many different ones.

It was a pleasant day so we walked around the gardens.

Ryton Gardens has many little gardens. This is a small garden.

This is the biodynamic garden.

This is Paradise Gadren

There's fruit still on the trees.

Grandma has one of these plants in her garden

After leaving Ryton Gardens, we had time to stop off in Ironbridge at Enginuity, a hands-on science centre.

Look what is inside a teddy.

A Dyson washing machine.

And some model ships.

The ? are to be aimed at with a special remote to activate a commentary

There's a bicycle powered thing.

A crazy boiler!


Wind Power. There are different numbers of sails to experiment in the wind.

Water power and dams.

It is a big display.

Tessellations. Can we put this back together?

I think so...

Yes we can!

Another one!

Done!

Let's have a race in the Norgren Climbing Challenge!

A tie!

There's no snow other parts of the UK have had significant snowfall but we've had none.

We haven't been out recently, my mum and dad have been redecorating the house slowly. Anyway, this room was recently finished and is now a workshop and jigsaw area.

We decided to help my big brother do The Periodic Table jigsaw puzzle he received for Christmas.

Gwen Jolie and I found a jigsaw piece of Bismuth to put in.

We all dived in to have a look for more pieces to put in the puzzle.

Captain Caramel found a piece to fit in.

I put in a piece of Tantalum.

The postman came with a packet...

I wonder who is inside.

It is Squizzle

Mummy is attempting a 3000 piece jigsaw of the Mappa Mundi. How long will it take if we help?