While fishing, we meet a lovely older couple who were visiting from Amberley, who 'helped' Sol and our friends, catch a fish. 'Helped' can be translated: when they caught a fish, they called over each child in turn to reel it in. All were able to have their photo taken with a fish, all around the same size as this one...
They decided to cut the head off and use it for bait, as well as explore the intricacies of the fishes insides.
Before Sol and I went fishing, we said goodbye to Dadda, who was off for a 2 night tramp/hike with friends, and goodbye to Seb, who had a Survivor Day event organised by our local Christian home educators group. It was Seb's dream day; making shelter, rafts, fire, whittling, chasing Weka, swimming, and hanging out with his buddies, Ez and Sam.
He came home tired and happy, and so to finish the day we made fire at home and cooked some damper. While they ate it, I read them a chapter from our current read-aloud, a Gladys Aylward Biography.
Seb keeping an eye on Sol's cooking of his damper.
Damper Recipe:
1 cup self-raising flour
25 gms butter
pinch of salt
pinch of cinnamon
1/4 cup milk
Rub butter into the flour. Add salt and cinnamon.
Slowly add milk to make into a dough consistency.
Use less or more milk as required.
Wrap around a clean stick and cook over a fire, time varies with heat of fire.
Damper pulls off the stick cleanly when cooked all the way through.
Enjoy.
