Folly on the Hill

A slow start to the week with a trip to play at a friends house on Monday, followed by a home day yesterday as the weather and general tiredness was making the boys grouchy.

Milo had a visit to the vets to book him in for his operation on Friday, so Gaba came round to look after the troops and stayed a while to keep the peace!!! An interesting task of putting the sun tent together that was brought back from NZ at the beginning of the year :-)

We made plans for today and decided upon a walk around Eartham woods and a picnic. This was all going according to plan until we were driving at the back of Slindon and boys spotted a Folly on top of the hill in the distance. Que Google maps and the car map book and our plans changed to go and find the Folly!!

Beautiful walk (if not long!!) through old woodlands and along winding paths, the boys and Milo had great time and saw and learnt about new things along the way.

Mega tree roots

Milo enjoying himself (he had started to slow down a bit by this point!!)

 Boys and Gaba

Cut out in the Woods

Snakes log pile house (Gruffalo)

Tree hugging

more tree hugging

Branch hugging!

Hare Bells

Holly Hocks

THE FOLLY!!

http://www.odd-stuff.info/follies/nore.htm

Tomorrow we are going to a picnic for "Learn Nothing Day"  with fellow unschoolers (basically schooled children get weeks and weeks off from learning, so it is only fair that unschooled children get a day where they don't learn) A has already voiced his opinion of such a ridiculous day as he likes to learn and doesn't want to not find things out for a whole day!!!!! :-)