Daredevil

I never put photos of my children on the blog.

However I am making an exception in this case because you would never be able to identify the wild, crazed sea-monkey that is Five, who yesterday (quite of her own volition), climbed up the twenty-tw0 steps to the high-diving board at the university pool and threw herself into the water with gleeful abandon.

This is a child who cannot yet swim properly on her own.

Her swimming teacher (the one all the mothers are drooling over, though not me of course, I’m above all that sort of thing *ahem*) said admiringly to me;

“That’s quite a little daredevil you have there!”

Yes she is! I’m so impressed.

And despite her astonishing fits of temper and recent rudeness I am so very proud and delighted to have this fearless, hilarious, clever, curious, inventive, loving, mercurial, incandescent presence in my life.

P.S. I would say sorry for my unashamed boasting, but that would be a lie.

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