After breakfast we all went to the playground. Emily went down the chute a couple of times on her own, with encouragement from Nick and he also swung her quite a lot more vigorously than I do.
I try not to be too protective, but am so clumsy and absentminded that I am worried I'll inadvertently let her come to harm. We also went to the small playground I discovered the other day to show Nick.
The pair of tabby cats was there and Emily and I stroked them (or in her case, grabbed a handful of fur). She seems convinced that they like to eat leaves as she offered a handful again.
Although there is such a choice of parks and gardens to visit, we always have trouble deciding where to go, but finally settled on Korakuen for the afternoon's outing. It was very busy with crowds admiring the blossom and fresh green maple leaves. 
There was also a large plot of irises in flower, and one of my favourite blooms, keria japonica.
In a tree hanging over the lake we saw a couple of white crested egrets nesting, oblivious to the throng admiring them. Everywhere, amateur photographers were training their cameras, with powerful zooms that would put the average paparazzi to shame.
On the way home I spotted a DHC cosmetics poster advertising 'Olive virgin oil'. I wonder if it restores ones purity?
After three months, we finally made time to dump all the files from my old laptop onto our new portable hard drive. I came across an old download of Kevin Turvey from 1982 and watched it. It was not as funny as I remembered, but it was good to see Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Robbie Coltrane in their early comedy outing as sub-normal layabouts in Redditch .
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