Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Multisports was mini games this week, hurdles, javelin (with one of those whistling bomb thingies) and running races, we loved it.  I was prettty good at the throwing.

It was another high speed dash to get me to dancing on time again.  I was really keen again and I was quite happy for Dad and Ned to leave me too it.

Yeah, thanks Ellis, I had to do reading while we waited for you.

Well at least Dad hadn't put you in a pair of shoes two sizes too small for you.  To be fair, my trainers were a bit clumpy on the floor and didn't do much for my elegance.  Still, they took pity on me on Friday lunchtime and we went to a really cool girls shop and got me some proper dancing shoes.  Oh, and some school uniform for me to wear when I start in September.  How exciting.

We had a trip into town to check the progress in Victoria Park on Friday after school.  We took our bikes and rode them along the canal for a bit.

I didn't like that much, but Dad assured me I wouldn't fall in the water.

The new skatepark looked very exciting.

As did all the new slides and what have you, we can't wait until it's all finished:

I was supposed to be racing my bike on Sunday, but as i hadn't been for a while I was really nervous. Dad suggested we go for a few sneaky laps of Andover track on friday night after tea, which I thought was a reasonable idea. When we got there, there were quite a few teenagers riding the track already. I decided to brave it and get amongst them. I gave a pretty good account of myself and they were even using me as an example to poke fun at their friends who were struggling a bit on parts of the track. We didn't stay for long and headed home for bed.

And a welcome from me, as I had decided I would wait up for them in my bed.
The weekend then, and we went to Paultons park, home of the new Peppa Pig land i'd been wanting to visit for ages and ages.
Yeah, I was secretly quite keen on it, and not so secretly keen on the Cobra roller coaster!  A brief note here, Dad forget the camera so we only have iffy pictures from his phone i'm afraid.
Peppa Pig world was pretty busy, even first thing in the morning but we managed a few rides before we got a picture in Peppa's house:

We even got to meet Peppa and George!

After a little bit of Ned Noodle 'through the crowd' magic:

Once we'd had our fill of Peppa, we headed over to the big boys side of the park to ride the Cobra rollercoaster, I love that so much.

I was too short though...boo!

And then I promised Mum i'd go on 'The Edge' with her....it was a bit scary I must say.  It wasn't so scary that I didn't have another go with Dad though:

I really enjoyed the little seal flume ride, pink seal for me of course:

This set me up a treat for the proper log flume next to it. 

Yeah, all four of us went on for the first time.

And I loved it. So much so that we had three goes.  In fact, I loved all the rides and went on just about everyone I could at my height.  The stinger rollercoaster was also brilliant as was the swing/roundabout thingy.

We headed back to Peppa World for the end of the day, the crowds had cleared and we got to have our fill of the new rides there before rounding out the day in the playground.  Perfect.

We even got home in time for a barbecue for tea.

So sunday was race day, I was still a bit nervous and unsure of myself despite evryones best efforts.  I managed to talk Ellis into coming along which was good as that meant Mum would come too.  I did a few warm up laps with Dad and felt okay about so I got signed up.

Meanwhile Mum and I got busy in the 'Team Ned' area and set up all our clobber.  It took a while I was back and forth to the park quite a bit and I had 'my kids' to attaned to (a fluffy sheep, Tigger and a few other assorted soft toys):

It was so dry that a man was even watering the track with a a hose pipe to keep the dust down, he managed to miss all the riders practicing though, not sure I would have done so well.....

I got pretty wound up in the pens before my first race, Dad did his best to chivvy me up:

My first race wasn't great to be honest and I finished, ummm, last.  My second was a little better, second from last.  My third was one better, third from last! (These were against mostly eight year olds though).

Mum and I got into position for his final (I was a bit chilly by now hence the blanket):

The final was a much better effort, I beat all the 7 year olds by quite a gap (but didn't make much inroads into those eight year olds, maybe next time?).  Anyway, i'm back on form and raring to go again and once again top 7 year old on the day.

Never mind all this bike racing rubbish, we had something genuinely exciting to look forward on the way back.....meeting Darcey!

Yeah, this was exciting stuff to be honest, we were both at fever pitch about this one.

I got first cuddle:

I had to settle for second:

How cool is that?  She was really lovely of course and we can't wait to see her again.

And the poo she did in her nappy was immense....a double bagger no less!

It was hilarious to see Auntie Christine flapping!

Back to school today then....booo!  Didn't much fancy that.

After school though I helped the workman clear up the netting and metal poles from around our new playground thats just been built.  He was happy for the help I think.  Of course it just so happened that I got to be the first one to play on it!  How cool is that?  It's brilliant, playtimes should be a lot better now.

And it would also appear that i might actually have a wobbly tooth or two...i'll keep you posted of any developments of course.