Mountain bike ride and another busy day

Back to school again this morning with Maths and Science, double English and double PE. PE was straightforward because the two children wanted to carry on with their dance practice and they did very well. Maths for Maria was all about pie charts and Science related to reproduction again. English was all about the context within which Dickens was writing in the 19th Century. Mast week Maria got 90/100 for her letter writing and 100/100 in Maths. Terrific effort.

After a butternut squash pasta recipe proved pretty tasty for lunch and a walk into the woods to collect some firewood with Maisy, I got the bike out for an off road ride down Slough Lane and over the Holt before heading west to Chalbury and on to Pidlington, a place I'd never heard of despite passing the sign for it plenty of times on the journey to Wimborne. Wow. Only a couple of properties but they were stunning and to set it all off, the river Allen flows through and it had formed a lake with an island where a swan family was enjoying a successful breeding season.

On the ride home I stopped off for a kick about with Glen and two of his friends which was great fun. Love to be able to play football still.

Bit of hedge cutting next, another dog walk and then preparing the motorhome for tomorrow's trip to Burley, filling up the water a little and the water for the chemical toilet too, along with the appropriate chemicals. All set to go. Well over 20000 steps again today. Keeping busy!