* Track of the little sparkles *

Daily log of childcare, cooking, gardening, sewing, and so on.

2022-04-23

Sunset in the last town we visited at 20:00. Recently, the sunset time is much later than winter and I seldom see it, because it's time for sleep for our children. But it was a "special" day that the end of the trip, so we saw the sunset a…

2022-04-22

We have came back to our home in Brighton finally. That was a long, long journey from Ravenglass. Normally, it takes 7.5 hours by train, but we inserted 1h walking around time for kids. And more, the train was canceled (I'm not sure why) t…

2022-04-21

Yesterday, we rodw the other steam train at Ravenglass. That was much smaller than previois one and runs slow. But, our reserved cariage was half open, and kids were enjoyed beautiful scenw and open air. We saw the train on the swivel and …

2022-04-20

We visited Keswick which is north direction from Windermere. We cruises and hiked around Lake Darwent, enjoying the nice view and fresh air. Our daughters walked very long! Here is the same scene of one of Peter Rabbit stories. We will rev…

2022-04-19

We cruised The Lake Windermere and took steam train yesterday. It was cloudy and little bit chilly in the morning, but it became sunny and warm in the afternoon. How lucky we are! We enjoyed the fantastic view from ship and sound & smell o…

2022-04-18

We visited Hill Top where Victoria Potter lived and many scenerys are appear on the story of Peter Rabbit. We visited almost no previous knowledge, but there several vooks for lent. So we enjoyed searching the scenenary with reading books …

2022-04-17

We climbed to the top of a hill named Orest Head and viewed the whole lake Windermere. After that, we went to The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction and enjoyed the exhivision. Our daughters haven't read the original books but only baby bo…

2022-04-16

We are traveling around the Lake District, where is the hmetown of Peter Rabbit. Yesterday was the moving day, and the train was soooo crowded. Our 2nd train was delayed because of the crowd, so we missed the next train. We arrived to the …

2022-04-15

This vegan cafe is near our house. I found this cafe was displaying the tulip early in the spring. It looked very nice, so I bought tulips for our house. It was the first time for me to buy tulips. I became to want a nice vase and table as…

2022-04-14

I love my 5y/o daughter's arts. Her favorite animal is a rabbit. And now, we are in the Easter holiday that we can see many products motived rabbits The right art is for her 2y/o sister who likes orange. I want to make something a copy of …

2022-04-13

My 5y/o daughter visited the rock climbing station again with her friend yesterday. They love to climb, and after the 1h session ended, they began to climb the free wall by themselves. I guess I should search for a climbing center in Yokoh…

2022-04-12

Here are daisies in the garden near our house. When we were in Japan and watched the #DWE DVD, I thought it is a bigger and more precious flower. But, I saw people were mowing the lawn involving daisies! Now, I consider the daisy as a wild…

2022-04-11

Yesterday, 2 donkeys came to the school. We went to see it and my daughters touched them. Look! The donkey's hoof is painted I don't know why donkey for the Easter, and asked my 5y daughter. She taught me that Jesus was riding on the donke…

2022-04-10

My second daughter has broken a balloon which contained many sparkly papers inside in the bedroom At first, I tried to vacuum these papers, but my daughters wanted to collect them. Good job They had used them for making their earrings, so …

2022-04-09

There are a lot of cherry blossoms in our town. The kind of cherry trees is also variable. I found this tree in our school garden. It has many petals and looks gorgeous✨ It seems like "Yae" sakura which means many petals are overlapping. W…