Had a great day at school on Tuesday, what with it being pancake day and all we actually got to make pancakes. I had them with lemon and sugar on and surprisingly they were really lovely. I usually treat thin traditional style pancakes as a vessel for carrying ice cream and chocolate sauce in massive quantities.
Rugby club after school was once again a whole lot better. We made good progress and really enjoyed playing a proper game for the first time amongst ourselves.
My second week at gymnastics and I really enjoyed it again. All except for a small incident when one of the other girls decided to be really quite nasty to me for no apparent reason. Her best insult was 'poo poo head'
Well, she'll need to try harder than that to put me off, ha!
When we got home I gave Dad the pancake recipe we used at school (done up as a maths problem, Dad had to check my sums with a calculator, he needn't have bothered of course, they were all correct) and we made some pancakes.
I didn't like them.
Mum only had a couple, but Dad and I kept on making them and making them and making them. We flipped them, we experimented to see how thin we could get them, how quick we could cook them but the best thing was that I managed to do one all on my own from start to finish. It was also probably the best one we did as well, all golden and lovely looking.
No one called me a poo poo head at ballet on Wednesday which was nice.
I might have done, under my breath while we had to sit in the car and read.....grumble grumble grumble. It must be said, I have lost a large chunk of my reading enthusiasm I had earlier in the school year. But having said that, i'm doing a lot more of it on a regular basis during everyday life so I reckon it evens out nicely.
Thursdays are great, I mean it's almost Friday and I get a free run of the TV after school while Ned is at dancing class.
I on the other hand had a rubbish Thursday, when I managed to get myself a red card issued to me for a bit of rough and tumble. Oh dear, Dad got told all about when he came to pick me up. I was really down about it, and felt that i'd really let myself down. It took quite a while before I cheered up.
One thing we do both like on Thursday though is hot school dinners.
The pizza's are lovely!
And the only thing better than a school dinner pizza? Ciabatta bacon rolls and potato waffles for tea on a Friday night.
Yes indeed, our appetite for potato waffles mystifies Mum but remains as strong as ever.
We had a visit from Laura and Darcey after school as well, was a lovely surprise.
Even if I did get a bit worried that Darcey was going to trash all of my stuff!
Then it was off to team Kennet, we got there a bit early and I had a great time by joining in with a game of basketball with some older boys. The athletics was good too of course. I put in a few strong performances and impressed Dad with my speed and agility in the last relay race of the evening. When we came out it was dark, but a lovely starry night. We decided that it should hurry up and be camping season.
The weekend then, and for what must be the first time since July last year it wasn't raining!
Amazing scenes. It's always a bit of a double edged sword though, because a weekend morning is a marvelous thing to spend in your PJ's watching a little television.
It really was too nice a day to squander though so we headed out.
After a bit of slouch and a leisurely breakfast though.
Our destination the Moors Valley country park. Dad had planned the whole thing with meticulous precision even going so far as getting a postcode for a Marks and Spencer's nearby so we could have a luxury picnic for lunch.
He was however mortified to find out that the postcode he had punched into the sat-nav was merely a Marks and Spencer's 'Simply Food' shop attached to a Petrol station on a stretch of crappy dual carriageway.
I don't know what he was so worried about, they had the usual individual fingers of strong cheddar and lovely grapes for me.
And I had the added bonus of being able to indulge myself in the dubious delights of petrol station warm sausage rolls from a fresh bakery counter (which were not as nice as the ones from Gary's shop in Cornwall by the way).
Anyway, the country park turned out to be rather brilliant, even if Mum did have a small issue with the extortionate price of car parking.
The main draw for us initially was of course the miniature steam railway:
We loved it, even though we don't look like it in this picture. So Dad took another one:
Which was a little more convincing.
The train didn't got that far, along the side of the lake and past the picnic area.
But there were plenty of onlookers flanking the line, all keen to be waved at!
And a couple of decent tunnels to go through!
The carriages also made a really brilliant place to leave a bag of rubbish, or so Dad seemed to think anyway.
He still claims it was unintentional......
As a rather splendid side order to this railway lark was a really rather brilliant playground.
And a woodland walk.
Yeah, a woodland walk sounds pretty standard doesn't it? But this one had a series of one off play structure in a clearing every 5 to 10 minutes walk.
There were about ten of them in all I think and they were really brilliant. We especially liked the wooden snake tunnels where you could climb into the snakes mouth and go all the way down to the furthest exit near his tail.
Which we obviously decided was his bum hole.
There was also a Go-Ape course in the tree tops.....this looks very promising as a birthday activity for me and a few friends.....i'm going to start applying the pressure to get this one sorted out I think.
We came home, watched You've been framed for a bit and then headed off out again to Kimi and Marney's place.
Abi and Faye were there too and we had a lovely night.
Yes, the catering that was laid on was top notch and Kimi seemed quite happy to watch me play computer games for ages and ages and ages. Perfect.
We were all very well behaved, unlike the grown ups who sat around, feeding their faces and drinking booze.
It was of course....a very late night!
Which was fine as the only thing we had on the agenda was Ali's party at the gymnastics club that Ellis goes to. Ali's been going for years and he's really pretty good at all that stuff. The party was great fun and we got to loads of larking about. The icing on the cake was that we got have McDonalds for the meal as well.
I had a leisurely picnic egg themed lunch with Mum and Dad before heading out to play in the garden in the sunshine. That makes two whole days without rain, amazing.
After coming home from the party Ellis and I made an amazing army base out of sofa cushions with Nerf gun implacements all along the front.
It really was quite the fortress...but sadly no one had anywhere to sit.
Yeah, bit of a flaw in the plan that one. It may have been why we were forced to go out for a ruddy walk I reckon!
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