* Track of the little sparkles *

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

2022-05-08

Now, Brighton is holding the Fringe! There are many performances every day, all day!!! We went to the family picnic event and saw several shows. The one in the picture is the storytelling. He read "Three little pigs (black humor version)" …

2022-05-07

My 2y/o daughter's treasure She loves to pluck the wildflowers, pick up some stones, sticks, feathers, leaves, and so on. She picks up something every morning and gives them to her nursery teacher who greets us in front of the nursery. Tea…

2022-05-06

I bought Whittard's tea as souvenirs. They gave me some flavor of sample teabags. I like the "Afternoon tea" of this shop the most, which contains black tea, jasmine tea, and flowers, but these flavors were also nice. I'll buy more for mys…

2022-05-05

We saw a little cute mouse on the way to the school yesterday morning. We chased the mouse and my 5y/o daughter was late for the school We had seen this kind of mouse in the Lake District during Easter Holidays, and in Peter Rabbit's stori…

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…