Friday 4th December: Cool but sunny again. We started the day with piano lessons, and Edward got his report from his recent exam. The boys were practising their pieces for the concert this weekend.
We got home and made packed lunches and headed south to Oamaru. The homeschoolers there were having an end-of-year sports day and had invited us. There were about 40 children aged 18 months to 15 years, from 8 families. As it turned out the children got on having a great time in the garden and garages of Maddie's house - a tree house, sand pit, bikes, scooters, football, snooker table and ping pong kept them all busy. So as they were organising themselves so well we decided to sit and have afternoon tea and leave them to themselves. In over 2 hours there wasn't an injury, a raised voice, or any obvious disagreement that parental judging was required for and the children were all thoroughly worn out. We mums congratulated ourselves on raising children that can get on and work it out despite everyone else's concerns about how our homeschoolers will get to socialise.
We got shopping on the way back through Oamaru for the Camp this weekend and arrived home late. Visitors dropped in with a chopped up dead sheep for us, in exchange for a calf feeder we swapped earlier in the year.
After work Steve borrowed our neighbours' sit-on mower and had great fun scooting round the garden (see photo).
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