More Anne.

This morning M spent quite a lot of time in the garden and K chatted to her from the attic dormer window and they decided that they could do the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, a scene that we've watched on several occasions at Shakespeare's birthplace.  For the first time ever, K & M considered letting me read one of the tragedies from their Shakespeare stories collection, we got as far as me getting the book down, but K changed her mind at the last minute, for today at least. 

K asked about the Elaine that is referenced in Anne of Green Gables, so I found Tennyson's The Lady of Shalot online and read her that, although I'm not entirely convinced that we had it right as there weren't the specific quotes that Anne mentions in the book.

We watched Anne of Green Gables today, which we all enjoyed, but all agreed that we prefered the book.  M decided that she'd like to live with Marilla, because she definitely wouldn't want to have puffed sleeves, although she wouldn't want to wear a dress at all.  After watching M went outside again, to 'cook' - she likes cooking in the garden, which generally involves mixtures of soil, sand, water, grass, stones and anything else she can find, served up on little plastic plates.  At the moment she's got 'peas' soaking overnight to make pease pottage tomorrow.  While she was outside K & I had a look for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (where Anne of Green Gables is set) in our atlas and then read a bit about it online.

This evening we got the girls' bikes out for the first time this year and after pumping tyres and raising M's handbars (she could do with a new bike as the seat is at its highest, but it'll last a bit longer) took them to the park.  They had a good ride around and both of them, although M more than K I think, practised taking one hand off the handlebars to signal a turn. 

I had anticipated that I would only read the first of the Anne books, but at the girls' insistence this evening I read the first chapter of Anne of Avonlea.