Sues collective nouns

Apparently the word for a group of swans in the air is a bevy. It's Scottish in origin while Londoners think of a group of swans on the river as a pod. A more exotic one is an exultation of skylarks.

To quote The Daily Mirror's Live Letters page from many years ago:

"Geese flying are a skein and and on the ground they are a gaggle. It's a siege of bitterns, herons or cranes, a chattering of choughs, a herd of curlews, a cast of hawks, a covert of coots - or couts - a team of ducks, a watch of nightingales, a muster of peacocks, a nide of pheasants, a wing of plovers, a clamour of rooks, a spring of teals (small ducks), a flock of swifts and a fall of woodcocks."

And I'm pretty sure it's a murder of crows.

That's all I can manage for now - must fly

Sue

The city that grew into a tree

Following on from our previous session, the tower we had constructed started to take on tree-like qualities. We used branches and willow sticks to transform the skyscraper into something altogether more earthy. 

It being the season to be jolly and all that, we decorated our tree with lights, sparkly hand prints, baubles and the trunk part had chocolate coins hidden in it too! We sang to our tree and each other, a celebration of what we have achieved together and a nice way to round things off till next time we meet in January.