Summer has arrived! It’s still April (just) but it’s hot! We try shadow walking and play with the garden hose…
247 – Walking on the shadows
Tuesday 29 April. Sunny. 24°C
I’m not ashamed to say we stole this one from Bluey! Out for a walk after school in the steaming heat we play ‘stick to the shadows’. Rules are your whole foot must step in shadows and you have three lives to lose…
We adjust the rules as we go. There are lots of bits, on our urban street walk, where the shadows disappear. Then I sacrifice myself so B can walk on mine… we’re walking the dog for a bit too which is helpful, though I think confuses him! Trees and railings create some brilliantly tricky moments, though the moving shadows are definitely the hardest.
246 – Making rainbows with the garden hose
Wednesday 30 April. Sunny. 23°C
It’s hot. Thankfully we need to water the seeds we planted last week so we get the hose out. I’m wondering if we can make a rainbow with it and it’s surprisingly easy. B just directs it into the sun and there it is. I move to one side and it disappears. B moves towards the flowers… and it disappears. Guess you can’t have everything. We never work out exactly what makes it happen but it’s fun trying.
We’ve chalked todays number on the garden wall and B has fun trying to get a rainbow right in front of it and then watering the wall till it disappears. It’s only later when inside that we realise we wrote 346 instead of 246… idiots! We head outside and do it again but there’s no rainbows this time. Clearly our lucky moment passed!
