I’ve just been practising balancing a quadruple scoop fake icecream on a cone. Ah, the joys of puppetry.

In a related story, I don’t think I’ve mentioned that Fridays we have icecream at lunch. They don’t normally serve dessert, so everyone gets very happy about icecream Friday. It’s like we’re all kids again.

I spent this morning trying to jump rope as Ziggy’s live arms. This is actually really, really hard because the rope has to be two separate pieces in order to get past the puppeteer, but I had to spin them in synchronization over my head with the ends swinging out of frame. It was really hard.

Then I had to play basketball and football. I’m sure you all know how good I am at that, being the avid sportswoman that I am…