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Day 52


I'll admit that the blog has been a bit bland without photos, so I've made an extra effort to post some today! 

Since Wednesday's downpour, the weather has been much kinder to us - even though it isn't too hot, it has stopped raining. It's probably proven that the weather affects our mood, so you can imagine what the tone is like when we're doing school work! Fortunately, P-J is super creative about it and isn't one to shy away from incentive learning.

In this equation, the banana was up for grabs

The look of this fridge is just exciting - farm fresh vegetables, hand picked eggs and aromatic herbs. How can you not eat well?



Jorja's favourite time of learning to date is when she can help her Dad in the kitchen. Here she is rolling out pasta dough for dinner. He feeds and she rolls...

Get ready to roll!

Pretty chuffed with herself
 The finished product was handmade pasta with homemade tomato, garlic and basil sauce topped with fresh cherry tomatoes and purple green beans.


But before supper, we took a drive to The Market at The Green in Lebanon to see what was on offer. Trying not to look too touristy, we just enjoyed looking around without being happy snappers. We passed curries, smoothies, goat's milk cheese, woven baskets and wooden cutting boards. There was also live music and Mr Samosa - I kid you not!

Outside of the gates though, it was free game and I managed to snap these three shots of my family at dusk -

Hoping to be cast for the show tonight? 

Oupa stokies and horse in hand all the way! 


And since we were so close, P-J simply could not resist passing by the Harley store. We arrived just in time for closing, which meant that they got to see one of the workers riding all the bikes in! P-J even spotted a blue version of his bike.



Yep, it may be getting cooler, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the last of the Summer sun with your sister on a random park bench...


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