Hullo hullo!<\/p>\n
Hope that you are all fine and still enjoying school.<\/p>\n
I was gazing out of the window the other day instead of doing my homework – it was raining. Not just gentle droplets of rain either. Great heaving cascades of water were streaming from the sky. I thought to myself\u2026 Sjoe\u2026 and they talk about water shortages. Fat joke!<\/p>\n
So I decided to do a bit of research about why water is so precious. I mean, that\u2019s what they\u2019re always saying\u2026 save water Sibo. Turn the tap off when you brush your teeth Sibo. Take shorter showers Sibo. And yet\u2026 when it was my turn to wash the dishes and I told Mum that I was going to leave them until tomorrow when there would be more to wash and I would be saving a whole sink full of water \u2013 she was not amused. Feh! Thought it was a brilliant water saving idea.<\/p>\n
Anyway \u2013 I found out some interesting stuff. Such as\u2026 we are still drinking the same water that the dinosaurs once drank (and then widdled out!). Eeergh gross yuk foef I hear you say. But it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to think that when you flush the loo, or pull the plug out, that that water disappears down the drain for ever. But it goes to a municipal facility where it gets cleaned up and used again. That\u2019s why we should not throw gunk down the drain. Especially not disgusting old motor oil, medicine or stuff like that. It makes it even harder to clean and they have to use more chemicals.<\/p>\n
You all know how the water cycle works hey? Water comes down from the sky, travels around the earth for a while, runs off into rivers and underground water tables and then eventually gets sucked back up to the sky again. I\u2019ve got a great picture of this in one of my books. Go and have a look at it \u2013 or download it if you want to – free. http:\/\/www.sibo.co.za\/page12.html<\/a><\/p>\n So now I\u2019m full of vim and vigour when it comes to saving water \u2013 and I\u2019ve checked to see none of our taps are leaking either.<\/p>\n Go check your taps too.<\/p>\n Sibo<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n Your new word for the week:<\/p>\n Word:\u00a0 vamoose (va-MOOS\u00a0 –\u00a0 is how you say it)<\/p>\n Meaning:\u00a0 to leave in a hurry<\/p>\n Example: We had to vamoose this morning because we were late for school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hullo hullo! Hope that you are all fine and still enjoying school. I was gazing out of the window the other day instead of doing my homework – it was raining. Not just gentle droplets of rain either. Great heaving cascades of water were streaming from the sky. I thought to myself\u2026 Sjoe\u2026 and they … Continue reading “Water”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}