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Farm Day

27/5/2012

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On Saturday we participated in "Farm Day" a program where city people come to a farm for a day, to see how farming folk live and work. The program has been going for some years but this is the first time we have been involved. We thought our farm would be too small, but they were short of farm families so we volunteered. We had a great day. Our family came from Sydney and needed to travel over four hours to get here, a commendable effort to spend a day in the country!
 We all had fun, the kids enjoyed all the animals, going for a walk along the sheep pads, fishing for yabbies, patting the lambs and climbing a tree. Vivienne and David  showed great interest in our routine activities, and daily  life, both of us contrasting our different lifestyles, and we learnt just as much from them. Jamie their son who is 7 had the dubious pleasure of taking a rag, which had been rubbed over the billy goat, home  for show and tell. (safely enclosed in a zip lock bag). Provided his intrepid parents manage to travel home with this souvenir, he should enjoy maximum impact in an urban classroom.
  And for us we made some new friends.
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Vivienne
27/5/2012 02:30:52 pm

Your farm might be small to you but it was big for us and we loved every single minute of it - smiling from ear to ear - brilliant hosts to us all and the journey was worth every bit of the 4hrs. Jamie has taken the Mr Stinky rag to school today - hmmm Newsday will be interesting today - Thank you and yes we have made some new friends too -

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Eileen
10/6/2012 11:57:28 am

It was a fun day!

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