SPACE

I have always had a fascination with words. One of my favourite words is 'Palaverous', which basically means: to be wordy, verbose, given to palaver. I have been thinking about my word-love and how there are probably other crazy people out there that love words as much as I do. I shared a fun word definition on our social media pages today; I would like to make this a regular thing with an associated hashtag so you could follow and get involved. 

I mentioned in the last blog post that we had started a new tradition in our family of buying rocks as presents for my young nephew, Jack. This idea worked brilliantly; he is now super enthusiastic about rocks and it makes present-buying at Christmas pretty easy really (and fun). His first rock was paired with a big book all about geology so we're sharing that today and we have the junior geologist himself in the studio telling us about his favourite rocks from his growing collection.

Ever since the announcement that I was going to have a nephew, I have been that crazy aunty who goes nuts at Christmas and birthdays. Before he was even born, Jack was the owner of a 3D solar system that lit up and had all the planets properly orbiting around a glowing sun.  Every year I challenge myself to find something unexpected; a gift that will inspire him to grow into a cool and interesting person.