Little Loves - February

One of my goals this year is to reduce my family's use of plastic. And one of the books that has helped to inspire me on this journey is Turning the Tide on Plastic by Lucy Siegle which begins with a fascinating history of plastic and it's various uses as well as how it does and doesn't get disposed off. And then she launches into her 8R steps: record, reduce, replace, refuse, reuse, refill, rethink and recycle. I am a great recycler but that doesn't feel enough anymore to help our planet so I've been making conscious efforts to think about how we can avoid plastic altogether or how we can replace single use with reusable and importantly only consuming plastic that is actually useful. I'm going to do a whole blog post about the swaps that we have made so far and I recommend any tips on this subject too. But if you are on an anti-plastic journey then this book is a must! I listened to the audiobook as well as reading a library copy (which funnily is the only library book I've ever borrowed that wasn't in a plastic casing! I think the author would approve!).

One of the words that The Wee Page Turner has mastered is "car" so he has been playing with the little Disney Cars cars that BookBairn gave him for Christmas starring Lightning McQueen as his favourite so I thought he would enjoy the movie. But he wasn't too fussed. What he does love is the Cars mini movie called Hiccups! Lightning McQueen gets the hiccups and he just can't get rid of them. The Wee Page Turner laughs and laughs at it! The only thing is that it's only two minutes long!

The same day we went to the bookshop we also went to the shoe shop, the real reason for our trip to town and The Wee Page Turner needed a new pair so we picked up these gorgeous Clarks Doodles. They were a bargain at £5 in the sale and will be perfect for the better weather. And doesn't The Wee Page Turner look thrilled with his book post?!

[I don't have any picture unfortunately as I took videos of the kids playing instead and I'm keeping them to myself! - Sorry!]
This month saw a week of rather, unusually nice weather for the season so we got out to play in the garden for more than just fleeting moments and it turns out The Wee Page Turner just loves the slide! His face lights up when he slides down it. And BookBairn is getting much better at hide-and-seek. It was such fun - I hope that we have a lovely long Spring and Summer full of sunshine.

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