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Saturday was Greta’s eighth birthday (baking) party, and as always we had invited more children than really fit in the house, so we were hoping and praying for sunshine so that we could release them all into the garden. It wasn’t looking good, with a particularly wet week leading up to the party, but then amazingly just as the first guests arrived, the sun came out too, and the garden was filled with excited children dressed as spidermen, devils in red wigs and princesses. Then later in the evening, the calm after the storm, I noticed that our front garden had become greener and darker, as the rain returned and it poured. Immediately I thought of our friends who were brave enough to be doing the moonwalk, and hoped that it would have rained itself out by midnight. I’ve since heard that nothing could have dampened the atmosphere of the ‘walked’ marathon through the night.
The next day we walked down to the site, to find that Bee’s wish had been granted, and there was now a swimming pool where the kitchen had been.
Saturday was Greta’s eighth birthday (baking) party, and as always we had invited more children than really fit in the house, so we were hoping and praying for sunshine so that we could release them all into the garden. It wasn’t looking good, with a particularly wet week leading up to the party, but then amazingly just as the first guests arrived, the sun came out too, and the garden was filled with excited children dressed as spidermen, devils in red wigs and princesses. Then later in the evening, the calm after the storm, I noticed that our front garden had become greener and darker, as the rain returned and it poured. Immediately I thought of our friends who were brave enough to be doing the moonwalk, and hoped that it would have rained itself out by midnight. I’ve since heard that nothing could have dampened the atmosphere of the ‘walked’ marathon through the night.
The next day we walked down to the site, to find that Bee’s wish had been granted, and there was now a swimming pool where the kitchen had been.
