I just wanted to write in quickly (only for third or so time today) and write about our day today. I read Leonie's blog this morning and we decided to take the plunge and go and find some mushrooms before they all disappeared, so we can see their spores on paper.

We couldnt find many in my yard so we headed over to Grannys, and while we were looking we found a very young blue tongue lizard! You can see his picture and read a bit about him here.

We bought our mushrooms home and placed them on white paper, the spore patterns have turned out just fabulous. My older boys looked up fungi and lizards in their nature encyclopedia (which just happened to appear on the table, fancy that) and read to their little brother how fungi grow, what they eat and how they reproduce. They then all did an entry in their nature journals, drawing wonderful pictures of different mushrooms and toadstools they had found on the internet. We popped into the shops and they asked if we could buy some blue-veined cheese so they could try it. My oldest son wanted to know how to grow mushrooms, so he thinks he has worked it out and wants to start that this weekend. 

What a great day!  

Thanks Leonie!