A colourful, snowy morning.

Yesterday Pa bought Dan a bag of mosaic tiles from the tile warehouse. What a great idea! They looked so pretty in their bag, like a great kaleidoscope of colourful shiny sweetie marbles. But flat, and therefore less inclined to end up in odd places.

They are very nice to play with. You can make patterns, or very slippery roads for making toy cars go fast, and pyramids are fun too. Quite good for maths thinking and spatial awareness too! But mostly they are pretty...

I think I might have to get some for myself. Playing with them makes me want to try mosaicing something...surely it can't be that tricky? Maybe I could get a little box or table from a charity shop and try it. I could make some nice road patterns, then there would be a permanent installation for car related activity. Dan has hardly stopped playing with them since yesterday morning, they have provided a more varied range of activities than any Christmas present I can think of, and he plays with them for hours on end! I had to stop him bringing them into my bed this morning while we watched power rangers though, that seemed a bit much.

Here is some snow against the romantic backdrop of our wheelie bin. It is the tidiest and therefore most photogenic thing in our garden. I did not, by the way, go out in it. I do not plan to either! I took the photo through the window!