Bindi & Beth

Beth loves watching Bindi The Jungle Girl.

She thinks Bindi's cool. So do I, actually. She's definitely not your regular 9 y.o.

This week, Beth has been preaching at me to Save The Whales. She tells me that the wind sometimes blows whales onto the beach, where they get beached and die.

Then she read a library book about how much people were willing to pay for shark's fin and the jaws of the Great White, and she exhorted us to Save The Sharks.

This afternoon, she took up a suggestion from another library book - one on recycling plastics - and said we could keep birds away from our fruit trees by hanging a disused CD on a string and tying it to the branches. When the sunlight catches the CD, it will dazzle the birds and ensure they stay away.