We had a day off school on Wednesday, which was good.
But it was for Grandads funeral, so that was bad.
We gave him a very fitting send off though, we had a sing song, heard some of his favourite music and heard some really funny stories about what he used to get up to as a little boy.
We've got a long way to go before we can live up to his level of mischief thats for sure.
But most of all we had a great big get together, there were so many people there there wasn't even enough seats for everyone inside the crematorium.
Seems like he was a really popular and well loved man, we sort of knew that anyway of course!
We went to the pub afterwards, there was food and drink.
And our cool cousins who even let us have a game of pool with them.
And I got to sit at the bar and have a lovely chat with Uncle Trevor.
It was also a bit of a novelty to have Mum with us on a Wednesday to take me to dancing afterwards.
So, some of you may have heard that they've finally caught up with Dad and got him to work a bit longer during the day as of last week. I think he was quite emotional about it all actually as it really hit home that we're growing up fast and don't really need him so much anymore. Anyway, the upshot is he doesn't have time to go to Tesco on his own in the afternoons anymore.
No, he has to wait until we finish school so we can go with him.
It was our first trip on Thursday and it went suprisingly well actually.
We got everything on the list, and a few things that weren't (Moshi Monsters, ha ha)
I got my school report on Friday, it was a really good one too. I appear to be doing really well at my reading, writing, Maths and creative stuff, i've made loads of new friends and apparently i'm a pleasure to have in class!
Our bike ride in the evening was rained off. Not surprising at the moment of course, it has been raining rather a lot hasn't it?
So instead we all sat and watched the Little Mermaid together.
We had a quick trip into town on saturday morning, the Spider Man demo running on a 3D telly in John Lewis was pretty brilliant!
Then in the afternoon it was my school fete! I was so excited and couldn't wait to go.
I was pretty up for it too, especially with the Olympic theme as well.
It's a shame it was quite so wet, but we still made the best of it and had a brilliant time.
Even if we didn't win any more jars of sweets on the childrens tombola.
Mum did a stint as a helper on that stall, we loved helping her out, giving out prizes and re-stocking the table.
But it was so popular we soon ran out of prizes and had to help her pack up.
Dad on the other hand had plenty to do on the bbq stall, flipping burgers for all he was worth!
He obviously developed a taste for it as he fired our barbecue up when he got home, even in the pouring rain!
We had a trip out on sunday, well, it had been a while!
Yeah, we went to Milestones in Basingstoke, I just about managed to get there without spewing up.
It was really cool inside, all streets and that made to look like the olden days.
There were loads of lorries and things as well:
Here I am during a uncharacteristicly late lunch stop, shortly after stuffing a whole chocolate chip muffin into my mouth after being egged on by Dad:
And here I am in a weird bit tucked away in a corner that looks more like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory:
The queue for the war rationed sweet shop was pretty long, authentic no doubt!
The service inside was good though:
But we didn't think much of the things on offer in the toy shop:
And much preferred the musical offerings:
We came home and had a game of junior Monopoly.
It went well, until I started getting well beaten....I had a minor meltdown.
Minor??? Are you sure Ned?
That takes us right up to Monday, todays exciting news was the arrival of our Olympic tickets!
Now all we have to do is work out how to get to London early enough....
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