Coin toss walk.

Yesterday A & I spent quite a lot of time sorting and emptying the utility room, in preparation for our building work starting on Tuesday.  The girls and I played Rummikub and Draw Out in the afternoon though.  In the evening A read the girls a William story.  At one point I overhead him read that William and the outlaws were 'insolvent' and stop to ask if the girls knew what that meant and when they said no, he told them 'Ir means the same as impecunious' before going on to explain. 

This morning A had to go off on his travels again, this time to Paris, although fortunately only until Tuesday and he'll be back before the girls are in bed all being well.  The girls spent quite a long time reading this morning, K has now started on the first of the Charlie Bone books and M is now on the sixth.  This afternoon we had another game of Draw Out, before finishing reading the book we started after finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer about The Abolition of Slavery, which, although it concentrates on the American Civil War and the emancipation of slaves, does continue through the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

By this time it was about half past three on a lovely day, so we decided it was time to get dressed!  We went for a coin toss walk, something that K first came across at Brownies and which the girls remembered that we had done when on holiday in Venice, which was several years ago now.  Every time we reached a junction we tossed a coin to decide whether to go left or right, we started off by walking around the block, and after we'd gone past our front door, we decided to go and get an ice-cream before carrying on with the coin tossing.  After following the fate of the coin for a while we ended up near the Trent, at which point K & M decided they'd rather go to a particular playground, the other side of the river, so we headed over Trent Bridge.  M insisted that I go on most of the things there, so rather than sitting watching I joined in today.

At the playground

Beautiful blossom.