* Track of the little sparkles *

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

2022-05-04

This is the "sausage roll" which was sold by the small shop in front of the playground. Someone said that every young in the UK likes it. And, this is offered also at school. The sausage roll which is sold in Japan is very different from i…

2022-05-03

After Natural History Museum, my 5y/o daughter and my husband went to see the musical FROZEN. She can't watch the movie because there are many dark and scary scenes so she feels scared. But she could watch the musical except for the last s…

2022-05-02

We visited the Natural History Museum in London. First, we went to the Dinosaur zone and saw many bones and imitations. This one was moving!! My second daughter who is usually a fearless girl, scared and ran away It was a good opportunity …

2022-05-01

We went to the Brighton Pier and enjoyed the softplay yesterday. It's a view from the pier. How nice weather!! We arrived and started to play at 10:30, and left there at 15:30. Without lunch time, we played 4 hours in the softplay!!! Well …

2022-04-30

I found these black tulips on the way to the school. It was the first time to see the black one for me. I see many people have their own garden in front of their house or their courtyard. I feel there are more flowers than the town where w…

2022-04-29

The new style of denying brushing her teeth... She used to close her mouth or cover her mouth with her hands and run away. But yesterday, she push her face against the sofa. It's a very energy conservation and powerful way. How clever she …

2022-04-28

Yesterday, my husband made this Yorkshire Pudding for dinner. The Pudding is sold in ready-made style, so we have to only warm it in the oven (and make beef stew). The pudding which we ate in the restaurant was an enormous one, but the one…

2022-04-27

This rainbow-colored piano is arranged at the station (rainbow is the symbol of Brighton!). I suggested to my daughter to play, but it was locked. I went by the station every day but didn't even notice this piano until last week. Since whe…

2022-04-26

We came back to our town. So, last weekend, we went to the sea of Brighton and played. Here are the seagulls resting My 2nd daughter likes to run after seagulls saying "Baaaaaaaaa!!" like a dinosaur. Daily life has come back. https://t.co/…

2022-04-25

Yesterday was the last day of the looooong Easter holiday! We went to the park which has a beautiful fine sandpit and played for a long time. My daughters love the equipment of this playground and tried many activities like monkey-bar, spi…

2022-04-24

Yippee!!! We went to the Japanese restaurant Goemon yesterday. I love the Kara-age rice bowl!!! Mine was Japanese style Kara-age, and the kids' was Goemon one. They ate much quicker than usual, so did I What a fantastic taste it was!!!✨ (T…

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…