Tuesday, March 16/2010

Wake to sun and silence. It's so quiet in Thames Ditton after the traffic of central Larnaca. You can lie in bed in the morning and listen to the birds sing.

Jenny is looking after Jasmine (14 months) for the day while Emma is at work and Doug and Giles off working on an electrical job of Giles's. Jasmine is lovely - round-faced, big-eyed and usually happy, though today she has a cold and is a little clingy. Still up for a joke, though, and thinks it pretty funny when she coughs and Joe says ah-choo. She's beginning to talk and knows quite a few words as well as some that she can sign, like bird. We take a morning walk round Thames Ditton admiring the flowers and, in the afternoon take Jasmine round Kingston in her pushchair as Jenny is visiting the dentist. She's quite happy to come with us and interested in everything. Later Jenny and I go round to the hall where Sam and Kai are being inducted into scouts. Laura and Nathan are there with Cody, who's the same age as Jasmine. When Sam and Kai put one hand on the flag and raise the other, Cody is quite interested and puts his hand in the air as well.