Back to the drawing board.

After the excitement of earlier on in the week I have been  trying to carry on with recovering and TAKING THINGS STEADY.  Because thats what everyone is telling me to do - whilst asking me to do things......

School holidays commenced so Kids Activities at the Lighthouse Museum next Thursday and the following Thursday.  This time last year we had over 80 kids at each session.  Pirates being a popular theme..

 This April/Easter we are doing Castles.  Our Lighthouse is built on top of a castle.

So all things Castles.  I have amassed a great pile of cereal boxes.  These will be piled up together with lots of bits and pieces and double sided sticky tape, and the challenge is to make a castle from all said bits and pieces. ..... 

We also have shields, tiaras, dragons, helmets, crowns, etc. to be made.  The only thing missing will be ME.  Banned by my g.p. (doctor) from hordes of snotty nosed kids.  Huh.

Done all the planning, obtained the bits and pieces required, can't even tell the story at the end.  Not fair.  One real plus is we have the wonderful Adele who is to be me.  She is at University and learning how to be a teacher.  She is also one of the Lighthouse's seasonal guides and has leapt at the chance.  Hmmmmm.

Anyroads I finally got my mojo back.  After not lifting a paint brush for four weeks I was really worried I might never want to paint again but then out of nowhere I wanted to paint my granddaughter.  Now I am crap at people, prefer a four legged beastie any day, but I just wanted to okay?

The DP had caught her in this reflective mode which I loved.  So I had a go.  Its not finished by a long way.  But when shown the picture, she said, "Thats me."   I nearly wept, well I am quite fragile at the moment......

Then I did a bit more to the lurcher sitting in the middle of fallen cherry blossom (just so you know what all the pink and white bits are).

AND THEN I saw these...

Photos taken by Kenny Buchan, a local photographer, not the DP for a change.  Wow .

So back to the drawing board.  Oh, and I am raising a glass of red wine, for the recovery and taking it easy of course.....

Walking the plank.

The second and last Kids Activity Mornings at the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, for the  Easter School Holidays.  Downhill for me to July sheesh.

Our second week we had, yet again, over 70 children.  But this week not only did they come with Mum or Dad, or both, but also Grannies, Grandpas, Aunties and Uncles came too!  Probably people they dragged in off the streets, well thats what it felt like.  And so many dressed as Pirates, even the adults.

The wee ones too.

Gathered together at story time.

Anastacia, Peter Pan's crocodile, and the alarm clock, (which is bigger than the croc. whoops.)

We had an ace story teller, The Blacksmiths Daughter, who did songs too.

Prizes for the best costume (homing in on a home made costume rather than shop bought.)  and every child got a gold coin, made of chocolate.  Plus all the wonderful stuff they had created, telescopes, masks, hats, hooks to replace their hand, lanterns, flags, their own pirate pictures laminated, jigsaws, parrot puppets, pirates from loo rolls, almost everything made from recycled stuff.

And finally, the volunteers who made it all possible.

So relieved, no one fell off the plank.