About Us

We are Ferdy (aged 9), Harriet (Mum - age too old to reveal) and Gil (aged 6).

Ferdy started school in September 2017 and Gil in September 2020, and Ferdy and Gil are home educated on Fridays (flexischooling is a combination of formal schooling and home educating). This does not mean an extra weekend day (Ferdy!), but that we will be doing days out, some reading, some writing, some maths and generally things relating to what both boys are learning at school.

We will be keeping a record of our progress (and our mistakes) on this blog. Any comments/ideas gratefully received!

Sunday 7 February 2021

To the time of the Andrewsarchus..

 This week we did something illegal, so please stop reading now if this makes you feel uncomfortable.

We are still supposed to be only travelling for work and staying local for exercise. All travel outside our region is not really allowed.

But this Friday, we travelled back in time.



We travelled back approximately 15000 years, which we guessed must be the Stone Age.

This was confirmed by Wolverine and Deer (apparently, according to Wolverine, Stone Age people were named after things in nature) whom I met, having lost Ferdy and Gil. I was then bombarded with a plethora of Stone Age facts like how they only spoke in grunt language, and how they were called Hunter Gatherers because they hunted animals and then gathered together to eat the food... I even met Deer's pet Woolly Mammoth called Berry (because he's a herbivore and only eats berries) and was taken to their Winter Camp (their Summer Camp had been invaded by baddies who had stolen all their animal skin clothes).

We spotted Woolly Mammoths in the distance (top right), a nest which we thought must belong to an eagle or perhaps an owl, and even some Andrewsarchus poo, which I was a little surprised about as I thought that they had lived in Asia, but Wolverine informed me that some had come over before the UK had split from Europe (the first time).

Things slightly deteriorated when we met Andy from Andy's Prehistoric Adventures so I was quite pleased to return to our time machine to listen to Stig of the Dump and return to the time of 2021. Until I remembered what 2021 entailed, and felt that perhaps living in a camp with my extended family wearing deerskin and roaming far and wide might not be such a bad option.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.