My garden has some beautiful flowers in it at the moment. I just love looking at them.

Knowing that they will disappear soon I asked my 12 year old daughter to take a photo of each flower. I decided to try my hand at putting some of them into a small montage in Photoshop. I have never used this program before...and, it's not easy! I have utter admiration for those of you who know how to use it. So please excuse how crappy this looks. But (as I said with my first ever vid!) you have to start somewhere.....

Anyway - here is a snap shot of my back yard. This represents only about a third of everything that is blooming at the moment. And of course I had to include a shot of Charlie. And the chooks...

( *meep* I wasn't going to post this... )

So it's semester 2 at school, which means sex-ed. time. Teaching and talking about sex to 11 and 12 year olds is always interesting.

I usually start the sessions with an informal chat and encourage questions. The kids really seem to like it and it's amazing how comfortable they become during the session. I can usually address most questions. But this kinda left me lost for words (which is fairly rare).

"Miss, can you put sperm in a cake?"

Ummm... hang on, one minute we're talking about egg fertilisation and now you want to discuss cake recipes?

Of course my brain is going ... well you can actually swallow....., no that might be a bit much, well it tastes kinda .... no not sure I want to go there just at the moment....

And this is just the first session!

*checks internet for a sperm cake recipe*