Tuesday 16th June: Happy birthday Jacob. A bitterly cold day after hailstones overnight. I felt awful when I discovered I had locked the chickens outdoors overnight with no shelter. They were very cross with me this morning but still laid their eggs, but might refuse for the next couple of days apparently.
Dunedin (2 hours south) had so much snow overnight that the police recommended people not to drive and only to walk if they had "4wd boots"!
We schooled in the morning and after lunch helped Edward's Cubs leader set up a display in the library.
Back home we had meatballs for tea and a yummy chocolate pudding.
In the evening I was at a Gym Club meeting.
The photo is of the statue in town of Dr Margaret Cruickshank. She was the second female doctor to qualify in NZ and the first female doctor to practice in NZ. She was a GP in Waimate until she died of the Spanish flu in November 1918. Having read a bot about her she had a twin sister and other younger siblings and her mother died when they were young. Help was needed around the house so one week Margaret would go to school and her twin Christina stayed home, and the next week they swapped. In between they taught each other what they had learnt. In spite of that she went on to be such an influential person, and Christina went on to be Principal at a College on the Norht Island, another unusual situaton for a female at the time. I don't feel so bad about home-schooling outcomes now....
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