Wednesday 25th March: A bright sunny day again, about 20 degrees at lunchtime then clouds rolled in and the wind picked up so it cooled down.
We schooled in the morning and then went to Victoria Park after lunch to play some sports. We rode there on our bikes and enjoyed whizzing round the 400m velodrome.
At 4 o'clock it was Keas and it was my week to be parent helper so we all went along. The pack is very small, only 6 children there today. Then we cycled home and made our own pizzas for tea.
The photo is taken from under one of the oak trees in Victoria Park. During the 1920s depression unmarried unemployed men in Waimate were used to build new roads, and married unemployed men were used to "beautify" the town. This included planting many english native trees in what is now Victoria Park. When we first arrived in Waimate at the end of March last year we noticed that the ground in the park was thickly covered in acorns. After a bit of investigation we found out that there are no squirrels in NZ so there is nothing to bury the acorns and so they stay and gather on the ground.
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