Portugal!

Sorry for the lack of updates last week, but I was living it up on the Algarve! My first trip abroad.

As you can see, I was a load of help with the packing.
They woke me up in the middle of the night, and the living room was full of people. We got in the car and drove to the airport. By the time we got there, it was daylight. I had to use my passport for the first time, the picture in it is terrible.....

On my way to the aeroplane, pretty exciting.....

Here I am in the air! I was a good boy, especially when I sat on Andy's lap and could look out of the window. Thanks Andy. The take off and ear popping didn't bother me in the least.
A long 2 hours and forty minutes saw us land at Faro airport.
We picked up a hire car and dad drove on the wrong side of the road all the way to the villa! Pretty dangerous I thought, but there you go, we escaped unscathed.

And here's where we stayed for a week! Not bad at all. If you look closely you can see me in the pool.
On one of our first outings, we managed to gatecrash the local hockey clubs presentation barbecue or something, we had chicken, chips, various other 'meats' and some rather lovely chocolate mouse...

...rather lovely until I had a reaction to it and my face went blotchy, eyes went red and top lip ballooned! Mum gave me some Piriton and it soon went down so that was okay.

We went for a meal at the Marina, I had my own fishcakes to eat and a rather nice young blonde waitress caught my eye. I pulled all my best moves i've honed at Tesco's on the old dears and it was in the bag! Then they took me home.....alone!!!
One of the main purposes of the holiday was apparently to play some golf, Dad (and indeed mum) only played 'minigolf' here at a mock Roman course and avoided the more lenghty full size version.

Here I am on the beach:

I ate loads of sand, you can probably make out my sand Goatee on the picture. Mum took me for a paddle but it was even colder than the swimming pool.
We had leisurley breakfast on the patio every morning which made a change from having rice krispies and toast shoved down my throat.

Here I am in the pool, i'm glad my waitress friend couldn't see me done up like this, a wetsuit (well the pool was cold and I did shiver in just my swimmers) and a stupid hat with a flap, as well as the heavy smearing of white emulsion that they called sunblock or something?

I shouldn't complain as they managed to keep me from getting burnt all week,
In the second installment of 'Neds occasional bad habits' I can be seen here taking advantage of duty free snouts!

We had a really good week, i'd like to thank Andy, Ben, Carol, Chrissy, Nick and Rach for all helping to look after me, I know you all helped mum and dad have a nice time too and I hope I didn't disrupt your holiday too much.

Anyway, back home now and up a room at nursery! All the kids in this room are between 1 and 2, so i'm one of the youngest again, but that doesn't bother me. I have to have a bag to hang on my own peg now, but because of the poor organisation on the parents part, I had to take a carrier bag! The shame of it! At least it was from a nice surf shop in Cornwall I suppose and not Tesco. They have promised me something a bit special for my gear next week, so fingers crossed.

Sunshine!

Good day!
The sun's been out, it's been really nice. Dad took me up Snelsmore on Thursday afternoon to see loads of trees. It was really nice up there:

Dad held me up and we ran through the leaves, I then had little walk around on the old acorn shells on the floor which made a smart crunching sound and then we threw some stones into the pond.
We also saw a little foal with it's mum, it kept coming up to me to say hello but I wasn't quite sure about him. He could certainly walk around a lot better than I could though...
Dad took an arty picture, but we all know the real reason we went up there was to spot any new bits to ride his bike on.....

Nanny looked after me Friday night while mum and dad went out, so that was a result. She gave me chocolate buttons.
Saturday morning we went to town and down the park. I had a go on the swings, slide and they even took me on the roundabout (which made mum feel sick). In the afternoon we went over to see Yanna and Fen. Yanna was great fun with her dancing and running about, I tried to keep up with her the best I could. Dad played GT4 and made a complete fool of himself, i'm glad he doesn't drive like that in real life. We went home and had a barbecue and I had my first burger (homemade one at at that).
Sunday was a lovely day, they sat out in the garden and I played with the sand/water pit. I got soaked and very gritty. Auntie Chris and Uncle Ian came round in the afternoon:

I had to play in the sand again and dirty my second lot of clothes!
Nanny had to have her eyes operated on yesterday, so dad and I went round to sit with her this afternoon to make sure she was okay. In an effort to take her mind off of her own suffering I decided not to have an afternoon nap and get really grizzly instead. I'll have to watch my step in future now she can see what i'm up to!
I don't know if we'll get another update in this week and we're off on holiday Saturday morning, so probably be back the following week with holiday snaps!

Nothing to Declare!

Welcome once again friends.
We went shopping in Southampton on Thursday afternoon. Just for once I thought i'd be a right pain and I cried for Britain. I got myself into a right state and they couldn't do anything with me. I eventually got bored of it and started smiling before dozing off in my pushchair.
I had a lovely night with auntie Tracey on Friday though. I've not let on to mum and dad about what we got up to, but I slept in until 9 am on saturday morning, so they know I must have been tired.
I've gone off roast dinners at the moment, but i'm really into cheese spread rolls (or marmite). I also give them a hard time unless we all sit down to eat together, I don't want them putting me to bed and having a nice cosy civilised meal on their own.
Here I am in action with the remnants of a bun:

I've just discovered trees, they're great! They flap about in the wind and make a cool rustling noise and everything. I keep wanting to go and touch them all the time.
And here's some of my handy work!
Smallest occupant of the house+smallest room in the house=big carnage!

I was quite pleased with it!
Thats all for now. I don't know what they've got planned for me this coming weekend, we'll have to wait and see.

Hello again, what's new? I'm going up a room at Nursery when we get back off holiday (which is apparently 2 weeks and four days away as i'm reliably informed by mum at every oppurtunity).
While we're on holiday related business, they're trying to 'train' me to wear my sun hat before we go away. If i've got something else to do, i'll tolerate it otherwise i'll whip it off quick-smart.
Well it was a bank holiday weekend! On Saturday, they took me up Coombe Gibbet, dad muttered something about there being no rope so we'll have to take him home again....

On Sunday we had Great Grandma and Nanny round for Sunday lunch. great Grandma fed me masses of ice cream and i'm surprised I didn't spew it back up. Dad didn't seem to happy as it meant less for him the pig.
Look closely at my t-shirt, it certainly seems to do exactly as it says on the tin:

After lunch Uncle Slim and Aunty Trace came round to try out their new tent in the garden. An 8 berth dome affair (with no instructions!). It was really funny watching dad 'help' put it up, especially when Slim got stuck inside it with a huge bee!
They took me to the Crafty Craft race on Monday (for reasons best known to themselves). The basic idea of it seemed to be that people navigated the canal on completely unsuitable watercraft. Very odd indeed. Anyway, we had a nice picnic in the park:

They let me eat a yogurt by myself tonight with my own spoon. I think i've almost got the hang of feeding myself after missing my mouth a good few times.
The walking seems to be coming along nicely now too, I can waddle quite convincingly across the floor if someone holds my hands and can manage a few seconds stationery on my own as well. It won't be long and then the real fun can begin.......