Arthur's starting to leave his Star Wars phase (it's been a couple of years) and enter a Justice League phase. His knowledge of the Star Wars oeuvre has been very useful for explaning all kinds of things, you can answer many six-year old questions by referencing the Force, the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. But I've got to admit, all his light-sabre training has done nothing for his cricket stance.
As someone at the park said today, summer is the time for junior cricket and the evocative sound of sponge on sponge.
Back at the flats we discovered that the Stomp Rocket is an unusually effective toy for communal activity, which is normally so hard to manage. Arthur was very excited that lots of the other kids crowded around to play. Stomp Rocketry is nicely egalitarian in that almost everyone can get it to go pretty impressively high, so there's lots of wowing. And the heights are fairly randomly distributed so the bigger kids can't lord it over the others. Plus, there's a high rate of fire so you don't have to wait too long for your turn.
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