Flying through school

Before school, Caleb informed me that he wanted to learn all about aeroplanes and how the inside of the engine looks. Not exactly on today’s lesson plan, but we had a look at the downstairs books and lo and behold there was an aviation design book. Very complicated and highly technical with formulas and graphs and things, but we saw what a turboprop engine looks like, and also saw some helicopter designs. That satisfied his curiosity for now, so we could move on to the more mundane things like warm and cool currents, the Atlantic Ocean, Hansel and Gretel, and lots more. At 11, I took the boys to town to start my grocery shopping. I was happy, nay, thrilled, to find frozen mince at Spar and bought 5 punnets of 500g. Also bought some more skinless chicken breasts, three punnets of that, since the other Spar’s ones were nice, and some steak. Thorpes is now selling a range of Freshpak Rooibos in different flavours – peach, berry, green tea rooibos etc. I bought a box of berry. Quite cheap, I thought, £1.07 for 20 bags.

Caleb was working with Paul (recently-released prisoner) in the schoolroom (helping him with sanding a pew), and eventually the two of them ended up sitting outside for half an hour while Caleb told Paul bible stories, and explained why Moses wasn’t allowed into the Promised Land, because he hit the rock instead of speaking to it as commanded, and I don’t know what else. Paul didn’t know any of this stuff because of course he hasn’t grown up in Sunday School, so Caleb was actually teaching him. From the mouths of babes!

Nick and Paul have started carting rocks away from our back garden into the school yard, to be taken eventually to Steve’s house in the country to fill in bits of his new stone wall. Since the church work is mostly finished, they can start on other things. They had to knock down a bit more of the stone wall in our back bit today to level it off a bit, and then it will be capped with concrete, which Paul knows how to do. So eventually the back will be sorted out and tidied up! You get quite used to your back yard looking like a building site though and eventually you don’t even see the mess…