Thursday 11th June: A warmer day today, 12 degrees at best, with sunshine at times. We started the day with a trip to the Playcentre. The boys enjoy using the playdough and one of the tools to make a train track, as shown in the photo. Their imagination and the quality of the work is usually lost on the younger children there, but the boys show great concentration and teamwork when they make it, and great tolerance and restraint when it is remodelled for them!
We left early to go to Oamaru for their swimming lessons. Edward and Peter and one other child are in one group, and Jonathan and 2 others in the other group, so they get plenty of attention and opportunity during the session. They carried on plaing in the water for another hour, the mums chatting and knitting away.
On the way home we bought some strawberry plants which I am assured are not going to be killed by the frost, and we didn't get in until 3.30pm. The boys then took the attitude that if they hid and were very quiet I might foret they were there and not get them to do an schoolwork. I didn't want to spoil their fun so I made a cup of tea and sat down and enjoyed the peace and quiet.... and made them do some work while I was cooking the tea!
Home-made sausages for tea - very tasty - then another long story book before bed.
I did some paperwork for the gym club and then settled down to watch a film recorded from the tv in England before we left. It was odd to watch English adverts again after so long because they are very different from how things are advertised in NZ.
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