Families are returning to the city or suburb whence they came, and their children are busy with play dates and soccer games and piano practice.
Philip Ridley, the love-him-or-hate-him British auteur who wrote and directed The Reflecting Skin and The Passion of Darkly Noon in the 1990s, has been busy with plays and children's novels in recent years, but he returns to the screen with Heartless, a philosophical horror film set in east London.
Even on a recent overcast afternoon, the area around the pool was busy with people playing volleyball, handball and dominoes, and practicing ballroom dancing.
Tell them you would love to hang out or talk but you are busy with studying, playing, volunteering, etc. Make up good excuses.
Not that Glen lacks distractions: he keeps busy with sport, plays piano and guitar and still has the odd rock-star fantasy: "If I could go on stage and be Mick Jagger, just for one song, that would be brilliant".
Mr. Turney went on to be a busy freelancer, playing with Broadway orchestra bands, with John Lewis's short-lived American Jazz Orchestra in the late 80's and with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, which he joined at its inception.
Her parents wonder: isn't there something wrong with a child inventing a friend who is too busy to play with her?
He is too busy to play with her much anymore.
In fact, Ravioli is often too busy to play with Olivia at all.
Did I feel that she and Dad had been too busy to play with me?
— David Remnick "Olivia's imaginary playmate is always too busy to play with her.
