Checkey Bon Cor Hi

Gecko's make an absolutely ridiculous noise. Tor-kay, but in a way reminiscent of one of those squeaky hammers that a toddler might play with.

It all got quite exciting here yesterday. It was Yamaha Day (and I forgot to send cards - how careless - Happy Yamaha Day anyway) and there was a big festival in town and the guy that sings "Checkey Bon Cor Hi" was there (you know the song, right? I appreciate that I've written it phonetically in a "Ken-Li"-by-Mariah-Carey" way but it's everywhere, so you'd recognise it. The girl gets run over by a bus at the end of the video - you know? no? well maybe the phenomenon is yet to hit blighty). Jonny was way more excited about it than he should have been so arranged a trip there with fifteen of the older kids. We only lost one. Well done us, I say.

A couple of days back our English class got a bit disrupted by a snake-scorpion double bill. We realised we were a bit out of our depth so let the kids deal with it. One of them tried to smoke the snake out of the tree; another destroyed the scorpion with a stick - the girls incorporated the bits of scorpion carcass into their game.