Sun Day

Yes, it's official, my brother is a Rain God.

Since he left the sun has got its hat on, sing hip hip hooray.

So we have gone to the beach, yes! And Eloise has voraciously collected mangrove seeds and put them into a poo bag before post-ironically paddling in a pool left by the receding tide then pulling down her shorts and crapping in it.

The nice thing about pools left by the receding tide in the late morning is they're as warm as bath water. Makes paddling a real pleasure. An almost unspoilt pleasure in this case.

"Hello!" she said to a couple passing by as a mini-log floated by and I pretended that I didn't really know her.

We were on our own at music today, Harry and his Mum inexplicably didn't turn up. Teena the teacher said that Eloise has "natural ability" as she ran around the room like a dervish and banged on drums and made a half-decent fist of playing the xylophone ineptly then went and sat at a switched-off electric piano keyboard thingy and actually pressed notes instead of just hitting it.

Might we have to think about piano lessons next?