Oh No!! It's a man with a cold....stay away unclean! unclean!

Typical caught a blimmin cold, and I can't sleep.  The kids have got it too.  What annoys me the most about colds is that are so.....inconvenient!   You know you're not going to die, yet it's capable of stopping you doing anything constructive.  Then you also have to watch out for the cold outside making you worse.  I'm fed up of colds, they are irritating.  The kids agree too, my poor daughter was half crying/half moaning that she wanted it to 'go now',  it was making her feel rotten.  This is why I am blogging now at a time when a normal person would have been asleep for a few hours already.

I have tried hard to use the time 'ill' to do some things with the kids.  Any free time I've had since before the holidays I've tried to have little craft projects on the go with them.  Over the Christmas time my son and I worked on his Doctor Who Tardis, Airfix model kit.  We spent a lot of hours putting it together and painting the Tardis, but we spent even longer painting the Doctor and his assistant Martha Jones.  (if anyone is interested I will add some photos of our workmanship of which we are very proud)  If none of this makes much sense please look up Doctor Who and use the links I've provided.

Anyway as I said there is another craft project I have been working on.  It's very girly too. My daughter and I have been creating a little fashion brochure, and she has been designing her own fabrics.(or at least decorating ones we already have to her own taste)  I am genuinely impressed by her definite taste in clothes and how much she notices the little details like the collar and the pockets, even the buttons.  My role has been mainly advisory, but I'm good at cutting and I also designed and drew the mannequins we are dressing.  I'm loving it!  It's really interesting, not the clothes, I mean the craft and design involved.  I'm loving us working as a team too, good old quality time with the kids.

While we have been doing this, my son has been building a spot of LEGO.   He loves it!  He obsesses with a model until it is complete.  He's built 2 ships, a helicopter, a Batmobile, Darth Vaders Tie Fighter, the mojority of Spongbob Squarepants themed LEGO, such as the Rocket, the character houses, the boating school blah blah blah...there's loads more!  The latest one is a bit smaller it's a car, and a snazzy  one at that.  It looks like a Shelby GT500 (aka Ford Mustang) to me, which makes it muscle car cool.  Here's an image of it taken on my mobile phone.