Day 284: Razzle-dazzle

We skipped church this morning to play in the sun.

Not really! although we did miss our church meeting. Exile #2 has had a migraine today and the rest of us have varying levels of cold symptoms and so are also somewhere below par (is that why they're called bogeys?).

Anyway, the four of us with working heads did manage an outing to our nearest playground - when we arrived we had the whole place to ourselves. The girls ran around, I had a sit down and E5N1 eventually had a little snooze in the sun. Exile #2 is much better now by the way and we managed a game of Scrabble this evening (399 + 291 = 690 for anyone interested).

Exile #4 has been learning her colours in Spanish. This has been fine - she does a very Spanish sounding verde, rojo, azul etc. Orange week caused us more of a problem. Our pocket Spanish dictionary told us the word was naranja (although we weren't sure exactly how to pronounce it). When she came home, she told us the correct pronunciation was (as well as I can render it) 'rana-taz-tazle' - she was very determined and consistent about it. Since then she has had us in stitches quite often, but remained unswayed. It turns out she was saying anaranjado - which, for the hispanically-challenged (like us) comes out something like 'anaran-hatho' - not so far away after all.