Day two of hot sunny weather and we headed for the river at the UEA for a little lunchtime picnic. Now, if only I could get paid to do this...
We had some proper SA sausage tonight. Boerworst. It's made from beef and looks like the biggest Cumberland ring you've ever seen. It kind of gets very juicy as it cooks and ours split in dramatic fashion sending steam every where... just like a train said Luke.
Lukey is in his last week of Busy Bees before starting big school in September. As a registered charity, the playgroup is never one to miss a trick and they managed to sell us a CD full of pictures of our boy for £10. Worth every penny I'd say.
The whole CD is a rather interesting insight into his world without us. Here's a few of the highlights...
Luke and Daphne and Tuni - triple trouble most probably.
... and what appears to be the problem?
Lukey just checking the books at Busy Bees. He does this a lot at home, he has to check the books before we can read them. I do wonder if the playgroup set up a few cute shots like this one. Will have to ask if everyone else had this pose. Louise?
After the excitment of Luke's sports day last week it was the turn of the professionals this morning. Touch and go as it was thanks to the weather changing by the second, they actually got a decent 45 window of sunshine.
And what's more, it was actually quite competitive this year. Even though no one actually said anyone won, the children knew.
Olivia has been talking about the sack race for ages. The other day she said she won twice during practice. Her little face lit up when her team made their way to the sack race startline. Not often you see her show any kind of excitement, but the sack race seemed to do the trick. And she was very good, bounced like something very bouncy as you can see.
See, we've long held the view that Olivia needs to take part in sport, she has a ruthlessly competitive streak that needs to come out somehow. Football and tennis don't seem to cut it, wonder if we can find a sack race club somewhere...
Luke's sports day at Busy Bees was a roaring success, we thought. You could tell they'd really put in the practice as they deftly accomplished all sorts of races feturing water, hoops, hats and scarves, eggs and spoons.
And in this day and age of non-competitive sports days (and we wonder why the English are so bad at sport), it was good to see four teams racing against each other even if they did stop short of announcing winners. And the running race at the end was brilliant.
They were of course all winners. And they got a rocket lolly for their efforts, which makes it all worthwhile.
Next week, it's Olivia's very much non-competitive sports day. Sigh.
