On Friday morning -before the miserable rain – Valerie was sitting with a wee group of children at a table outside as they worked on a very tricky puzzle of a big scary shark with its mouth open.  The children were amazed by its rows of teeth.  Valerie wondered if it cleaned its teeth.

 “It would need a toothbrush this big!” said one of our wee puzzlers.

The children reckoned that really, in real life sharks don’t clean their teeth.  This took the conversation down the route of thinking about how the shark’s breath would smell.  Their was a lot of laughing and Yuck! noises.  “It’d be really disgusting and smelly!” said Eden.  “It would be fishy and smell of poo!” said Amelia.  Hilarity ensued- the word “poo” has this effect every time its uttered in nursery.  It is amazing the thoughts and conversation that come out of doing a jigsaw puzzle.