When the weather's this good...

...then really the only thing to be done is to go outside and top up that vitamin D!

We've now finished both of the Alice books, which are exceedingly peculiar in my view, but which had K in particular laughing like a drain! We've also now talked about the basics of chess, although neither K nor M was particularly taken with the idea.

One of the very few things that I think is a (very slight) downside of HE is that it is trickier, although by no means impossible, to try out different team/group activities, particularly with children like mine who would be generally reluctant to do so with a group of children they don't know, I'm thinking particularly of sport and music here. So when the birthday party they went to at the weekend turned out to be a 'running around' party, including some football and hockey (both indoor), I was quite pleased. In their party bags, there was a flier by the folks that ran it and who are also doing school holiday activity clubs, and both K & M decided they'd like to try one out. Having confered with the friend whose daughter's party it was and discovering that her two girls (two of K & M's best friends) are going for a day too, I've booked both of them in for a day of 'Active Multi Sports' in a couple of weeks time. What am I going to do with myself?!

The past two days we've spent quite a chunk of at the park, with K & M climbing (and today having their picnic up!) one of their favourite trees.

We've got a few books lined up to read now, all of which feature in this book, a couple of which I had already from my childhood and the third I happened to spot in a charity shop shortly after reading about it. So we started on The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler this afternoon in the park and then we'll move on to Peter Pan and Wendy and Emil and the Detectives.

However if this weather holds you're more likely to find K & M up a tree in the park or playing in the garden, as indeed they should be, and in fact we're off to a HE meet up and picnic in the brilliant local country park tomorrow.