Thursday, February 25th.
This morning, the girls were a bit rowdy, so I sent them outside to play while I did the exercise bike. It was a nice, sunny morning, but they kept coming in to put on more clothes. They ended up with two layers of coats on plus scarves and claimed it was necessary because they were "going to China."
Later, they played an hour of Animal Crossing while I got started on grading mock translation exams and baked my loaf of sourdough seed bread.
Afternoon activities included: reading time, yoga, class prep, watching Sleeping Beauty, more playing outside (for the girls - they managed to make it home from Japan, not China after all) and watching Top Chef with Sylvain.
For bedtime story, we started reading Laureva's tree book from Uncle Roy. The girls were particularly interested in the map of world trees. In addition, Laureva seemed interested in the descriptions of different tree shapes. Maeva wanted to know whether there are weeping willows in France, but couldn't get a satisfactory answer out of the Nest Hub. Further investigation will be required.
Jenny and I watched two more Bridgerton episodes this evening. Now that the day's nearly over, it feels like it went by quite quickly.
In Covid news, the UK variant now represents 36% of cases in France and is predicted to become the dominant strain in the next few weeks. Researchers still fear this will result in another increase in case numbers.
3 comments:
I think I'd be interested in the map of world trees, too.
The English Wikipedia page on weeping willows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salix_babylonica) has an image of a Monet painting entitled "Weeping Willow". The page about the painting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_Willow_(painting)) says it depicts such a tree that was growing by his water garden pond in Giverny. I conclude that there is or has been at least one weeping willow growing in France, with evidence as recent as 1918.
Maëva would like to see one. Guess we need to go to Giverny.
There may be others. ;-)
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