National Sports Day - Part 1

First celebrated 2 May 2020

Part One - Monday to Wednesday

Well, what a fabulous week of sporting events that was.  Following Rose's format last week we had a sporting event everyday, here's what we got up to:

Monday was walking day.  Not a very exciting start to the week but it's best to ease into these things.  The Millers walked up the fell road, the Stallards walked up the crag and Jacob and I went on an early morning bird watching marathon, the birds weren't out in force and a dead duck rather put a damper on things.  Rose walked on her hands and went out on her roller blades, is that walking on wheels?

Tuesday was racket sports day.  Rose and I played tetherball, keepy-uppy with a tennis racket and badminton.  Jacob made loud noises in the kitchen and claimed to be racketeering in the basement.  The Stallards played swingball:

Laurence's funky swingball moves

And Tam made the cutest racketball game in the world, I don't think it has a name yet but it should.

Wednesday was any sport beginning with 'S'.  The non-quarantined Miller contingent went shopping, I think this counts as an extreme sport these days, and synchronized swimming and the legendary 'lock down goggles' were born (see Friday for an example).  The Stallards weren't feeling quite the thing so they played electronic Star Wars.  Rose taught me how to 'Skip-it', if you're not sure what that is follow this link.  She also did the sack race in a pillow case:

Jacob played sping spong? don't know why he couldn't do that on the right day, it's almost a racket sport.

Check the next post for Thursday onwards.