Apparently yes it can. Poor Emily has her sports day today, so I made sure she had sun cream on, lots of drink (non alcoholic of course as she’s only 14), a hat and an umbrella to keep the sun off, with her before she left for school. She does burn very easily so we have to be very careful. She’s doing the 1,500 meter race, apparently they all have to do it. “I’ll be walking it!” was her comment on that. To be honest, a very sensible one. Emily is not a very sporty girl, not like George at all. A quote in George’s report from his PE teacher says: “The sight of George ‘warming up’ in full PE kit and on crutches was a joy to behold!” This was earlier this year when he broke his ankle and was in plaster. So as Emily has sports day and George is at the Tower of London on a school trip, I continued on my allotment. I wanted to stay for a bit longer, but it’s very, very hot today. There is hardly any breeze which makes it worse. So some gently weeding and watering was on the cards. Then I dug up some Potatoes for dinner and have harvested about half if my Broad Beans. The leaves are loosing their green colour now, so it’s time to get them in and sorted for the freezer. So I had to do a bit of digging, but nothing too taxing. I also harvested some Climbing French Beans, so that’s dinner sorted, although I do need to pop to the shop by us and get some sausages or something like that. I expect the kids will come home exhausted, but tomorrow is their last day and then they break up for the summer holidays. Now they’re older it’s very enjoyable, as they’re very self reliant and I can still pop to the allotment for a bit to keep things ticking over. I’ve not planned anything, but we’ll go out to places of interest, and maybe pop to the beach for a day trip. We’ll just take each day as it goes. But a massive sort out of their room is really needed…..That’ll be fun!!