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Ah yes, that’s a good idea… it’s probably a short cut.  I wonder why no one else has thought of it? 

Ah.  That fresh air is nice.  Oh, look … swans swimming in that lake.  How nice.  Oh… are we outside?

 

No… don’t let that door shut… oh, too late…

 

Oops – It looks like we’ve gone out through a fire exit, by the bins, still, at least we’ve got… how many tokens have we got… let’s count them quickly.  Can I have a look at yours…?

…and… aaarrgghhh… oh no, I’ve caught your toe… and dropped all of our tokens and… oh no, as you bend over to catch them, you are only just in time to watch them roll away into the drain….  But didn’t they make a lovely tinkly tune as they bounced and rolled away!

“We had better go back to the way in and start again….”

I guess so.  At least I didn’t drop my ice cream!

“Ice cream, Dad?  How did you get one of those?

Sshh.  Never mind.  Have a lick and keep it quiet!  Come on.[*]

[*] I’m not saying that there is an ice cream booth in here somewhere – that would be silly, wouldn’t it?  This is definitely not ‘ice-cream weather’!