School’s out and after-school care has a day off, so we were all at home today. Work didn’t get quite as much attention as it usually does.

I did my lunchtime workout as I try to do on most days, and I jumped rope as a warm-up exercise. Adrian was bored and got curious and gave it a try as well. He found it harder than it looked. I don’t think he quite understood that it’s not enough to just turn the rope and jump occasionally: that the timing is quite essential. And – just like Ingrid when she first learned to jump a rope – he puts an awful lot of unnecessary energy into the jumping. As if jumping higher and harder would compensate for the lack of coordination.

He got better and better, but never managed more than two jumps in a row.