We had a trip to the dentist last Tuesday.
We've had to change the man we see as he'll only take Dad private now, so to keep things simple, we all go to the same one as Mum.
He was very nice actually, he said we brush well and have nice healthy teeth.
Yeah, that was very good to hear.
After that we had a little time to kill before Mum had finished work so we visited the bookshop, which we loved.
And HMV where I tried out loads of those really cool big headphones that the swimmers wore at the Olympics.
After that we wandered down the park for a bit of a play as well, was very lucrative for me as I found about £1.70 in change under one of the swings.
Yeah, I was gutted i missed out on that!
I was also nearly blowing a gasket in my attempts to get either of my parents to get me enrolled in Team Kennet athletics club as well. Mum made some calls, Dad sent some emails.....will have to wait and see I suppose.
I didn't want to go to ballet on Wednesday, the line I tried was that of tiredness. Dad said okay then, don't go. He didn't much like my idea of going down the park instead though. Apparently if i'm too tired for dancing, i'm also too tired for the park. I decided dancing wasn't such a bad idea after all.
All my fretting had proved to be unfounded as i've got a place at the athletics club, starting this friday night. I can't wait to go and get stuck in.
I did my dancing after school on Thursday night. I got right to the front in front of our teacher a dn really gave it everything this week. I'm hoping to win dancer of the week for my efforts but won't find out until class this week.
And while he was prancing about I got to stay late in my playground and play. I had a brilliant game of hide and seek with Molly and grossed her Mum out telling her all about a dead bird we'd found in the playground.
Tegan came round for tea on Friday night.
I think I only put Ned's nose out of joint a little bit playing with her.
Yeah, whatever Ellis, I showed her proper entertainment by setting up a scalextric track in my bedroom without any help from Dad. We even did our homework together without being asked!
On the subject of homework and what have you, I took a massive haul of house points for my spelling, times tables and daily reading. I was so pleased with myself.
Saturday was a rather special day.
Indeed it was.
We'd had Grandad to stay for a few days lately in readiness for a special train trip.
His best friend was driving an engine that Grandad had helped mend and keep running called Tangmere.
It was going from London, through Newbury and on to the seaside at Minehead.
And arrangements had been made to put his ashes in the fire of the engine as it powered along the track.
So, not yor usual day out but very, very cool indeed.
We had quite a party to wave us off on the platform which was lovely and we got shown to our very posh fist class seats along with Anne, Uncle Trevor and Hayley.
Alan though had a special job to do. He rode on the footplate, helped pull some levers, toot the whistle, shovel some coal and most importantly, to load Grandad into the firebox. I'm not sure he didn't actually put himself in there as well as when he came back he was covered in soot and looked filthy.
He also said it was about the coolest thing he'd ever done and loved the noise, the heat and the speed.
Inside the carriages it was a very different scene:
It was, we got really well looked after too, nothing was too much trouble for the chaps working on the train.
In fact, it seems Grandad was pretty famous in railway circles and everyone seemed to know who he was and said what a great chap he was.
It was lovely to hear.
It was a lovely sunny day and the countryside rolled past the window.
There were so many animals to see, it was lovely.
We loved buying raffle tickets (even though we didn't win anything)
And we were soon in Minehead, it was a lovely sunny day. This sundial was a brilliant find as we've been doing light and dark at school this week. This picture of me stood on a sun dial will do very nicely for my homework.
After a bit of a climbing session (with Ellis needing to be rescued after she got stuck between two rocks) it was on the main event, the arcade:
We loved it, there were loads of 2p fall machines, our favourite!
We rinsed them for money and even better than that, tokens!
With the help of Alan, Hayley and Uncle Trevor we soon had enough tokens to get ourselves some very tasteful
prizes:
prizes:
A lime green skull with it's very own crossbones for me.
And a little pink dragon hatching out of an egg for me.
One last scenic shot before we boarded for the return journey:
We even let Auntie Christine and Maurice (Owen and Laura's Grandad) come and sit with us.
Yeah, we felt sorry for them slumming it in cattle class on their own little trip out.
The trip back was just as lovely, as it got darker outside our little lamps made a lovely cosy glow for us to snuggle down in.
Yeah, we got Dad to finish fantastic Mr Fox for us.
And then something really unheard of happened. A random bloke on the train came up to Mum and Dad and asked if he could make a comment.....
Yeah he did, you'll never guess what he said....
He said what a pleasure it was to see two such well behaved and pleasant children all day!
We were all stunned into silence momentarily.
All too soon we were in Newbury, I didn't want to get off and could quite happily have stayed on for London. As soon as we had got off I charged up the platform to the front of the train to see the engine again.
I did too, it was all so cool and exciting. We saw Grandads friend again and thanked him for a lovely day and a great send off for Grandad.
The engine itself loooked even cooler in the dark, the glow from the fire was awesome!
Here's our own video edit of the day:
And of course, being a steam train event, there were plenty of other people who were interested enough to film us chugging along.
Yeah, we'll call them 'enthusiasts' I think, not Train Spotters or anything like that, oh no. Anyway, here are some videos these keen chaps took and then posted on the internet themselves:
Sunday then, and a trip out for Ben's birthday to the Gurkha Chef restaurant.
Our first trip to a curry house!
We didn't know what to expect but the music was pretty groovy.
And I loved the pictures on the walls of the mountains in Nepal and the ornamental weapon selection above the bar.
We did pretty well with the food too. I particularly liked the starter selection of marinated chicken, on the bone of course.
And I loved the hot chicken curry. Well, I loved the taste of it much more than the mild one, but it was a bit hot. Maybe a bit too hot to eat too much of.
We had a walk up town and ended up in HMV to get a DVD to watch.
And remarkably we agreed on one, 'Diary of a wimpy kid Rodrick rules'
It was ace, almost as ace as Dad's massive bar of chocolate he got out of the cupboard for us to share!
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