Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

This weeks big news...Chicken Pox!!!! Here I am during my recuperation at home with Mum in the mornings for a couple of days last week:

I've got a marvellous sprinkling of crusty scabs pretty much all over, but Mums been dabbing them with calomine lotion in her best Florence Nightingale style.
School news, i'm getting a lot more reading books to bring home now. When I can be bothered i'm actually pretty good but there's always better things to do...especially Mario & Sonic at the winter Olympics on the Wii. I'm addicted!
Things have finally settled back down at school after Christmas and the snow and i've even earned extra golden time minutes for being good.
And i've enjoyed being able to choose one of many many vehicles to ride to school to pick him up in the afternoons, even if I did manage to go over the handlebars of my trike and end up in a muddy puddle!
The weekend, finally we went out and about...even if it was to flipping Ikea!
Actually, it was pretty good, we went to Southampton which gave me a little time for some DS action in the car...
...and a kip for me!
The car park was brilliant, the curliest up ramp we'd ever seen, round and round and round up four levels right to the top. The views were even pretty good out over the docks on a lovely sunny morning.
The shop itself wasn't bad either, plenty of beds and chairs to test as well as the kids section.
Where I bumped into my friend Joe from school! Getting out of the shop was even better than going in, they had four escalators like the one at Sainsbury's (where you take your trolley on)!
We called in at a little park on the way back which was nice, if a bit cold.
It overlooked the train track and some of the trains leaving the docks were unbelievably long!
We had a look around a bike shop to keep Dad quiet, I trapped my finger in a bike's bell after repeated ding-dingings.....didn't get much sympathy even though it really hurt and made me bleed a little! I've tried milkng it ever since but still no-ones interested.
In the evening we had our belated family Christmas gathering at Auntie Christines, she loved it of course, dishing out the presents:

We had a lovely evening:

Until the electric shock game came out. I got zapped twice by my own doing and then once again when Dad stitched me up...I was NOT happy with him about that I can tell you!

So after a stupidly late night (gone midnight) what does Dad decide is a good idea on Sunday morning? A walk up Beacon hill of all things!

It was for my school project though, we've been looking at landmarks and places of interest around Newbury. I set off at quite a pace:

I didn't....

And soon took the Mum carry option:

But I managed to keep on keeping on and reached the top first:

We were so high up, we could see for miles:

Yeah, it was okay at the top, I did have to have my hood up though, it was a bit blowy!

We contemplated the scenery:

And then headed down again with as much energy as we had on the way up:

Which meant Dad carried me, but couldn't manage Mum as well.

An afternoon with Mario and Sonic saw the weekend out a treat, before it was back to school on Monday.

And I went back to nursery with my nicely crusty scabs!