Boing

The kids are desperate to get a trampoline for the garden, and have been mounting a campaign to get one. This has included getting friends to explain to us that it doesn’t kill the grass (you just have to move it each time you mow), that it’s such great exercise, and they’ll spend much more time outside. Their latest scheme was to explore what size it would be, which involved lying head to head to show the likely diameter.

We haven’t yet told them there’s already one on the way, because they have made good points – we’re trying to work out what we might extract from them ‘if’ we decide to give in to their demands.