Nick left at 7.30 this morning to be at Head o’Wain to start the painting of the chapel’s roof. It was a hive of activity to get him going, as I had to pack juice, coffee, sandwiches, snacks, apples etc for him, and he had to get the ladder and paintbrushes and all sorts of things into the car. He left on time though, and so the boys and I carried on with our morning as usual. It was strange not to have Nick around though and I missed him! I’m so used to him making me a cup of tea while I’m busy with the first session of school, and just generally being around. I couldn’t miss him for long though as he was home before 10 am. The paint they had was not right; they needed a primer or something, and it was raining out that way too, so in any case they couldn’t have gotten started. Shame, after all that preparation. Anyway, we shared his flasked coffee in the diningroom while Aaron did a worksheet and Caleb drew a picture, and then Nick went to get started on some reading and things. He also used his time today to paint a section of the house where he’s cemented, and it’s coming along well. He says the old paint work has deteriorated so much that it’s difficult to paint over, so took a long time. After tenzees and hanging up washing, we continued with school, and we’ve started a new book for Geography called “Wild Places”, with the section on Jungles. It’s a great book and the boys are going to enjoy it. Since we are now doing jungles, Caleb wanted to make a jungle, so after all the reading, we created a paper jungle, and Caleb even added string vines, which we learned are creepers which hang off trees and have thick rope-like roots, and are called lianas. Thus it was that there were lianas strung about the trees, such that Tarzan would have been right at home!
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