Tuesday 21st April: Warm in the sunshine, cool in the shade. We schooled for the first hour and then walked to the library for their holiday storytime session, all about Pirates, then craft time to make a paper and tube octopus. After lunch we did another couple of hours or schooling. Toad in the hole is cooking for tea while I type this.
As mentioned earlier, we have been collecting pine cones. They're not all as big as the ones in the photo! Houses here all have open fires or log burners and people will burn anything and everything to keep themselves warm. In particular Kiwis seem to like to start their fires using pine cones - cheaper than kindling wood. So the boys collect pine cones when we're out and about and sell them by the bagful. Last year they earned about $60 from this. Last year we bagged them in supermarket carrier bags, but from August this year we will be charged for carrier bags so we thought of bagging them in old feed sacks. The friends we went to on Sunday get through 40 feed sacks a day and they get thrown out, so we are helping the environment by reusing them. The evenings are getting cooler and we're hoping for bumper sales. We have several packing boxes of pine cones in the garage and know where there are plenty more.....
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