Hello room 14 and Mr W
This is the first time since I've arrived that I've got on a computer. Our neighbours had to get an internet connection. We don't have television, a phone line, any gaming or videos. We are having a low- tech term. We are learning to use axes and saws to cut down trees and to make things. We still play sports and fish but we live outside a lot.
I am living at Tottiford Farm, Hennock, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ139PD ( if you want to write to me). We are the big House/Barn facing the road if you enter that postcode on Google Earth. It is in Dartmoor national park so it is quite wild and not many people live there. I like the wild animals we live here with they include Newts, Toads, Frogs, Slow Worms(which are legless lizards), Roe and Fallow Deer, Badgers, Foxes. My favourites are the frogs but I have to stop my brother from killing them .
My grandad Edwin lives at Shuttamoor Farm three fields to the east, He is hay making this week because its really sunny! He has a Round Baler and a Case tractor, "they are a very deadly duo." This afternoon I'm pulling the levers of the tractor to release the bales it's going to be sooo fun.
We live in a barn in Tottiford Farm. Our neighbours are: Toby and Laura (Toby's girlfriend) Alana their daughter, in the lower house are Phil and Helen. They are both doctors, he's an Ear Nose and Throat surgeon and uses a robot for operati0ns. When he has been using a chainsaw the previous day he can't do surgery the next day because his hand shakes too much! We really like our neighbours so we built and just finished a HUGE table for 14, which we recycled from our grandad's old silo frames. Last weekend it was full of people for two nights, not one person drove by without stopping and chatting.
Recently war planes have been flying really low over us. Yesterday we saw a Hercules flying 200m from the ground, we have also seen a Merlin Helicopter just above us. We think it's for training because there are very few people in the the National Park. I think its awesome because you can see all the guns and missiles. Toby and our friend Adam have just returned from fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and we now have Adam's combat jackets!
The "Inversion Boots" are just pieces of foam with a switch and a hook at the back, how they work is, you find something like pull up bar and pull yourself up and the hooks cling onto the bar and you just hang like a bat. I got them because they are supposed to stretch you and make you taller. "My record is 10 minutes then , when I got off I could'nt feel my legs." You get them on
Trade Me. They are great, I reckon I have grown an inch with them.
I will soon be taller than Jacob and Kelvin and best of all I will be taller than Chad since we used to be the same height.
I will try and get some pics next time.
Waka
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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