A postcard from Granny Angela - the Aussie Dunny :)

Africa Geographic goes to Malawi

Malawi, the land of the lake

 




Meeting the Malawians

Baobab!

This is a Baobab tree. The genus is found throughout Africa, Madagascar, some parts of Asia and in Australia. They are often called "the tree of life". Their trunks often reach 7 to 11 m in diameter and the Glencoe baobab (usually considered the largest in existence) had a diameter of 15.9 m until it split into two parts a few years ago.

A single tree can hold up to 4,500 litres (1,189 gallons) of water.
From I f Love Science 

 

Movimento Arco-Íris de Sabores (MAIS) - NutriVentures

Quando acordas de manhã, come logo uma maçã,
Uma banana por dia dá-te força e energia.
Queres manga pró almoço? Pode ser mas sem caroço.
Framboesa de certeza que vai ser a sobremesa.
Sumarenta melancia para o lanche eu já comia,
E se vens jantar comigo...não te esqueças traz um figo!
Antes de sair de casa uma laranja descascada
E um ananás para ganhar energia pra brincar.
Come ao chegar à escola um morango pra memória,
Quando é hora de lanchar o Kiwi vem a calhar.
Ao cantares a canção não te esqueças do melão,
Da papaia e da amora antes de te ires embora.
Quando acordas de manhã, come logo uma maçã,
Uma banana por dia dá-te força e energia.
Queres manga pró almoço? Pode ser mas sem caroço.
Framboesa de certeza que vai ser a sobremesa.
Sumarenta melancia para o lanche eu já comia,
E se vens jantar comigo...não te esqueças traz um figo!
Muitos cheiros, tantas cores, arco-íris de sabores,
Come fruta todo dia pra crescer com alegria!

Our Xmas Tree / A nossa Árvore de Natal

Feathers! Plumas! Penas!

Odysseus / Ulisses - read to my son :)

Interactive map - click to go places!

I am in preschool

What's the time... In Australia?

And two delicious comments on the Cheezburger post:

"To make it even more complicated, Broken Hill, out in far western NSW (the reddish one) runs half an hour after the rest of the state because the town runs off South Australia (purple) time. And then there's a town basically built right on the NSW/Queensland (blue) border which has two time zones during DST."

"Time Zones are the least of our problems down under..."

Save the Turkeys!

A Mighty Girl - Girl Empowerment Holiday Gift Guide

Click and go!

Baby Chasmosaurus fossil found in Canada

The tiny, intact skeleton of a baby rhinoceroslike dinosaur has been unearthed in Canada.
The toddler was just 3 years old and 5 feet (1.5 meters) long when it wandered into a river near Alberta, Canada, and drowned about 70 million years ago. The beast was so well-preserved that some of its skin left impressions in the nearby rock.
The fossil is the smallest intact skeleton ever found from a group of horned, plant-eating dinosaurs known as ceratopsids.

LiveScience

Princesses, by David Trumble

My favourites:

And the controversial Holocaust Princess changed to Diary Princess (because princesses are, after all, shallow and unworthy of the Holocaust *roll eyes*)

Just a Second!

If you want to browse illustrated books AND read an insightful review, look no further than Brain Pickings

The second doesn’t relate to any cycle in nature — it’s a human invention, and the shortest interval of time most of us use in our daily lives. The Babylonians came up with the idea of the second about 4,000 years ago, but they had no way to measure such a short interval of time.”

Steve Jenkins

In Australia everything is trying to kill you (and we'll never hear the end of it ;)

Found in They Draw & Travel

Done by Logan Wagoner

Thesaurus!

We are so much MORE than pink princess maids!

GoldieBlox Toys for Future Inventors

A postcard from Granny Angela - Koala bear :)

A Year of Parenting... (the fine art of Grant Snider :)

Pumpkins DON'T kiss the cook :[