It has only been a month since I posted last, but it seems like forever. We have been so busy here, with monster birthday party for the smallest, where I packed my house out with small children and there parents, and the course I am running at the local Home-Educators group.
My knitting has not progressed as far I as I would have desired in this past month, with the boring part of my Gothic Leaves shawl being completed, but the lace edge being too intimidating to carry on. There is a couple of designs on there way into the public domain though, so keep watching! A chunky weight semi-fitted cardi for the Ladeez and a Dragon Hoodie for the smalls, both in the test knitting stage, but feeling very proud of both!!
The course I am doing for the older Home-edders is fantastic, at least for me! I am putting together 6+ sessions covering different aspects of outdoors adventuring skills, and then plan to go on various rambles with them, great fun! Lots of games in the mix, lots of energetic minds to brainstorm with. only problem is it takes a lot of research, as it has been like, 5 years since I seriously did anything like this myself, but it is great to go over the basics, and question how I used to do stuff in the past.
This past weeks session I decided to look at food and nutrition. When I had previously been on walking camps, our diet consisted mainly of Porridge, Hot chocolate, bourbon buiscuts, pasta with scrambled sosmix & peanut butter and chocolate spread sandwiches. I generally got home with a cold or 'flu after that for a week!
So after reading a sports nutrition book that came highly recommended(just kidding-it was the only one I could get my hands on the night before the session!) I put together a session for the young people to help them look at how they eat, how they could eat better, and how they could put together appropriate menus for camps, taking the nutrition and space/cooking/preservation issues into account. 3 hours work. the next day, went to the group and was faced with apathy towards joining in on nearly all sided, so I didn't bother. We played games in the rain, the few of us who where up for it, and my paper-work has gone in the folder for another day. Damn autonomy!
