Last of the summer? And a new Olympic sport.

Just in time for our school-y friends to enjoy a little bit of summer before they have to go back to school we have some lovely weather for a change! 

Yesterday afternoon we went to Rush4Health, a outdoor sporty/healthy event at Rushcliffe Country Park.  Lots of different sports clubs were there promoting their sports and letting children try them out a bit, in the hopes of recruiting some junior members.  K & M tried out a few, including korfball (which is how A & I met as we both used to play and he still refs, and a friend of ours runs the local juniors), hockey, rugby, fencing (spongy swords) and athletics (running).  We also tried to fly our kite, as the event has incorporated the Kite Festival that has been running there much longer, but it was (very unusually for the park) not windy enough to get it up.  They also had a good play in the playground there, which resulted in K making a new friend and the new friend's mum and me swapping phone numbers in order to arrange a further meet up.  K & M quite often 'make new friends' at the park, but it seems that most of the time the 'new friends' live miles away and I am not really inclined to follow up friendships of half an hour standing unless they are local!

While trying our korfball, which both K & M have decided to give a proper go starting tomorrow, M was asked by a couple of girls what year she was in (at school), as the height of the posts used varies depending on age/school year.  When she replied that she didn't know, the girl repeated the question more slowly and louder (to help her understand presumably!) and when she repeated that she didn't know and added that she didn't go to school, the girl's reaction was cartoon-like in her jaw-dropping amazement and disbelief.  Very funny!

Today we headed off to the local park this afternoon, which was very busy (schools go back tomorrow and Wednesday round here, so it'll be getting quieter again very soon) and we bumped into a few friends before walking home with ones that live almost opposite us. Once home they went straight in to the garden to play some more, although M had a little break to bake some plain vanilla muffins (both girls requested this sort after I made some really nice blueberry ones which both girls said were very good except for the blueberries!).  K & M are now in the garden training for a new Olympic sport:  Swing jumping.