Wednesday 19th August: Sunny and warm! Hooray! What a difference the sun made to how the children and the chickens were feeling! We schooled in the morning and got through lots of work. I also got the ski clothes washed and on the line to dry.
For lunch we had fresh rolls and homemade pumpkin soup - yummy.
After lunch the boys and I went over to the house. The two men working in the house are getting on steadily with putting up the internal walls and are doing a careful job, which is great.
I met another double glazing man and someone to make a kitchen for us, then the boys and I walked round the garden. It's the first time I have walked right round the boundary. We discovered the goat had escaped into the bottom paddock and was munching the grass as fast as she could. We brought down a new bale of hay for her and she went back to her own field to munch on that instead. We found the old remains of two lambs that we need to take some spades over this weekend and bury. There's also a lot of broken glass and drink cans in the bottom paddock that we need to sweep up before we can let the animals in there safely.
Soon it was time to take Peter and Jonathan to Keas, where they were learning about Healthy Eating today. I needed to pop into town to post a parcel and pick up some heavy shopping while I had the car, and I left Edward to play in the playground by the Scout Den while I did that.
After Keas we went home for bolognese pizzas (!) and chocolate cake, then the boys went off to bed and Steve went off to talk about aeroplanes with his friend Greg.
The photo is of Edward in the playground.
10.55pm and Steve is still talking to his friend Greg about aeroplanes!
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