The kids are starting to wake up early now, around 7am, making it difficult for Nick and I to sleep any later - and the flies didn't help! I got up and read in the annex for a while until Nick came round and the day was already very warm and still. We had coffee, played a few April Fool jokes on the kids and had a slow breakfast, then got stuck into schoolwork. We have had three days in a row of solid education and the kids' work shows the effort. When we h...

Woke up around 8am to a beautiful sunny day. Sat outside and had a coffee and then began the breakfast marathon and schoolwork. Doris and George came past to say goodbye and gave the kids $10 to spend on ice cream. We finished off schoolwork, had lunch and set off for the beach in Inverloch. One the way to the beach we drilled the kids on all the work they had covered that morning and 20 minutes later they had all made enormous improvements. We decided to ...

The kids woke us up this morning want a wee - really it was a ploy to get us up so that they could go and see their friends! Another beautiful day was expected so we spent the morning doing schoolwork so that we could go and explore in the afternoon. Katharine has finally got into self-directed study and while everyone else was still waking up she began work. She had completed two hours and two subjects before we had finished breakfast and completed another ...