printing on wood and piles of wood

I've been printing a lot of circles onto very thin sheets of veneer this week which is very satisfying.  The  grain of the wood looks lovely through the printing in a way that my inadequate camera will never convey!

There is also a lot of chopping and sawing going on here - after all the recent wind a lot of branches were down locally and so our wood pile has been growing nicely.  These logs look beautiful too, with the white wood, dark bark and patches of lichen covering them.  

So it turned out to be a wood based week for us all.

How is it?

How is it that very small people who are off school ill can quickly chip out a lino design, edition it and wander casually back to the sofa despite being too weak to possibly walk down the road and learn something?

...meanwhile in the same period of time I haven't cut out and editioned a monster (and her friend), but she's getting there and seems quite content to wait until next week to fully emerge.