A Brush With The Law.

It has been much warmer today with occasional heavy showers. Of course small children cannot resist jumping in puddles so there were quite a few pairs of wet socks and I had to put on my cross voice because I had asked them not to go in the puddles.

Our brush with the law was a visit from our Community Policeman, PC Gareth. He came to visit my class as our topic is 'People who help us'. The children had lots of questions to ask him including such burning issues as 'Have you got a kitchen (in the police station)?,& ' 'Have you got a telly?' Also more exciting things such as 'Have you caught lots of burglars?' & 'Do you have a helicopter?' 

The high light of the visit was going to see the police car and hear the siren. Later in the term we will walk the children to the police station where they usually all fit in one police cell and then have their fingerprints taken. They're such a gang of hooligans!

Now for some more photos from Morte Point.

Today the subject is Walls. The underlying rock in this area is a type of slate which naturally breaks into flat pieces . Most of the old field boundaries are fat stone walls with hedge plants growing from the middle but out on the coast or up on the moors the field boundaries  are just stone fitted together without any soil (or cement). 

The farmhouses in this area, including ours, are built from this stone which is rendered with cement and painted as this stone is porous . The previous owners who renovated and extended our farmhouse thought it would look better with the render taken off causing us problems especially on the west side which gets the force of the wind and rain.