Then we decide to hatch out some Guinea Fowl eggs too! The local Farm Shop gave us 9 eggs, one of which was unfertile, so we hatched out 8 babies!!!
We've done a lot of the 3 R's this year too...... Re-duce, Re-use and Re-cycle. We started having an organic vege-box delivered,tried to use our Farm shop as much as possible, registered with Free-cycle ( through which we have acquired a worm composter), bought another compost bin for the garden waste, tried to cut down on packaging and carrier bags and bought a log maker to re -use all the newspapers. We tried to do this initially by our own method but they were very big and difficult to dry out...see photos. Everyone had a go!!! Something very appealing about sludgy wet newspaper....yuk!
We have been Home Educating for over 5 years, with a brief spell in school just recently for the younger two. The eldest is now an apprentice mechanic, attending college every few weeks. Home Education can be hard work and very challenging but is also fun and exciting.It has been a learning experience for us all. We remain autonomously educating and so each of the boys are developing their own interests and skills; with us providing as much assistance as we can or that they need. They are all learning life skills by experiencing life in all its guises. Through good times and bad. They learn team spirit and independence. They learn what they like and dislike, what they are good at and what makes them tick. This, we hope, will prepare them for life in our ever changing and demanding world. This is not a representation of ALL Home Educating families, but a brief glimpse at ours.
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