the joy of children

Some of you may not have heard our Afterschool group on a Tuesday afternoon as they arrive breathless from their day at school, needing to run about and burn off all that energy that has built up paying attention as school all day long.

I can tell you that their energy reverberates around these old walls, their happy laughter and squeals alert me to their arrival!

I enter at my peril as balls whiz by my ear and I tentatively put one foot in front of the other to deliver my form to Julie and Catherine. They are made of sterner stuff than me, I beat a hasty retreat.

This morning Julie told me that a few of them were quietly doing something in the store cupboard...... I personally would have been on high alert at this point I can tell you.

But no, this was their reward.