Denmark is probably one of the few European countries not to have a bank holiday on May 1st (or nearest Monday there till). Gwen and Mia were to be found at serious risk of having one school day too many recently and were given the day off school at about two weeks notice. Unfortunately both Anne and Tony had meetings and other important matters to attend to (such as today being the deadline for handing in income tax declarations) so the girls could not stay home. Both got invites to spend the day with friends who live in fact across the road from each other. So they got there rather early for a social visit as Tony had to be at an 8am meeting anyway and by all accounts had a great day playing computer games, cuddling some new born kittens, brushing down a couple of horses owned by one of the friends and hopping about on the trampoline of the other girl. Gwen somehow managed to get two ice creams during the day; a perk of having divorced parents who don’t know what the other parent has dished out, I gather.