Just call me Steffi

My new racket arrived yesterday (thank you ebay! Only £1.30) and you will be amazed to learn that my game has not improved. Guess a swish new (to me anyway)racket does not automatically play better. Still, Sam and I had fun-and he is improving which is the whole point of the excercise. The courts are always completely empty when we go, it is like having our own private court. The benefits of home ed!! I am sure that if we were to go on a weekend they would be packed.

More normals and david attenborough the last two days. While watching yesterday's dvd Sam suddenly remarked that david attenborough looked very similar to the grandfather in jurassic park. Talk about powers of observation-even knowing that david and richard attenborough are brothers I struggle to find the resemblance-he made a connection between them and didn't even know that they were related. He was interested to learn that the brothers spent quite a bit of time here in leicester as their father was dean of the university.

The weather has been so glorious the last two days that we have spent our afternoons outdoors. Today we played some long complicated game involving invisible pteradons, the gang from scooby doo and two hot wheels cars. I love it that he is developing a good imagination-even if it does involve dangerous reptiles and goofy teenagers.

Today was the award ceremony at the library for all those children who completed the summer reading scheme. Sam was chuffed with his certificate but even more pleased with his spy pen. It is one of those ones where you write the message in one color ink -which appears to be invisible, then when you rub over it with the other side of the pen your message magically appears. He has spent all evening writing out messages to me.

A quiet morning tomorrow and then french in the afternoon. If it is nice again we may try and fit in a game of tennis on our way home.