Winter Schooling

Off to school in the snow.

For once the girls are keen to leave for school, to walk through the snow, to play outside in the snow before school opens and to play in the snow at recess.

The playing fields may be covered in snow but the kids still play soccer - although the ball doesn't roll, it stops dead!

They roll big snow balls to build forts. The boring teachers don't allow them to through snow balls but the boys do it secretly.

The school provides "magic carpets", sheets of plastic, to use as sleds to slide down the small hill. However, you have to wear snow trousers to use them so, as you can see, our girls are not participating. Guess what we bought the next weekend?

Katie and I took the scenic walk home along the track in the forest adjacent to our house. The local bear is fast asleep now, so adventures in the forest are far more relaxing. It's strange to think he is lying quietly in his own little den somewhere not too far away.