Round and round...

It was our day with Frieda today. With warm sunshine again, we took advantage of this lovely late Sept weather and went off to Endcliffe Park, where there's a large playground - making a change from our smaller local park.

Frieda was on good form, enjoying the slide in particular. But also the roundabout... I find that option a bit testing, as I start to get dizzy after a couple of circuits of pushing ... hence today's slow shutter image, trying to capture something of that feeling :-)

Diana is still with us until Thursday. Once we were home, Frieda was tired but adamant about refusing all potential nap prompts ("wouldn't you like a cuddle and a story?' 'No...!')  However, she and Diana were pretty relaxed with each other by then; I took a break for a while, and they contentedly played with jigsaw puzzles.

Backtracking a bit, the other memory I wanted to note was our trip last night to the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield. We saw Matthew Bourne's new ballet, with Sadlers Wells: The Midnight Bell.  None of the three of us could reliably remember when we had last been in a theatre, watching a live performance - so this was a huge treat. Mask-wearing was 'requested' by the theatre management, but this was only being observed by around three quarters of the audience... despite the age profile being pretty 'mature'. I loved immersing myself in the ballet; like all the Matthew Bourne works I've seen in the past, it was athletic and quirky and quite intense.  But I was left wishing that mask-wearing could still be made compulsory at events like this.