Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday

I got up really early so I could get Dad involved in our advent calendar guessing.  Also this has the added bonus of me knowing what's in Ned's before he opens it!  Dad's rubbish at guessing to be honest.

After school netball is still going well.  We played 2 games and won both of them before bad light stopped play at half four, earlier than usual.

Andy came round to tinker with the heating system at home as it still wasn't quite right.

He stayed for tea as well which we loved of course, decent pudding!

Wednesday

It was a lovely sunny winters afternoon after school so we suggested an after school bike ride.

We headed out accross the fields behind the school, it was really rather pleasant.

It obviously helped us work up an appetite, we ate stacks for tea!

Which I needed to burn off at Team Kennet afterwards.

Did you know that the telly has channels that just play music videos? Why did no one tell me about that before?  We are loving it! 

We're particularly enjoying the total ridiculousness of that Jason Derulo song Trumpets at the moment.

It's inspired a lot of copycat dancing too.

Yeah, the music channels have overtaken CBBC this week thats for sure!

Dad came and ordered me back to bed at 1am, I was quite comfy on the sofa having got up and put the telly on to watch more music videos.  I really did think it was nearly getting up time.

Thursday

After school dance club was proper ace this week, we had two glow sticks each and danced to Ellie Gouldings Fire.  We loved it.

It was really good to be able to see them doing it, gave me an idea of how ours must have looked earlier in the week.

Friday

Friday again!

And it was my mufti day.  I'd gone to bed with tight platts so my hair was beautifully curly and I chose my best clobber to wear, I do love mufti day.

I had no swimming! We had to wait for the plumber to come round to see to our leaky upstairs toilet that had flooded the bathroom that morning.

We used the time wisely though and decided we should write our Christmas cards.

Mum was going out on her christmas do(she looked lovely when she left) so we managed to convince dad to play our board game Clear Round with us.

He was totally useless at it!  I wasn't though, I won by a mile.

Saturday

I had a trip to the hairdressers for a trim in the morning.

Dad and I went to the bike shop while they were in there.

We had a few bits to see to in town before we went back to Sainsburys to do a christmas shop for the food bank collection.

We love doing a food bank shop even if we don't sometimes have the best grasp of non perishable foods.

We saw Darcey in there too, obviously that was brilliant.

Once we were done in Sainsburys it was the main event of the day, The choosing of this years christmas tree.

We had our customary dance with Santa of course:

The choice was a little disappointing at the top end of the sizes it has to be said, there were no real cieling scrapers, unless you went for one fit for a shopping centre or something.

Mum was pleased that we didn't spend too long deliberating, we found a good one early on which I kept hold of while the boys insisted on trying to find a better one.....they soon gave in.

We had to help Dad carry it so it was obviously pretty sizeable:

We shoved it up the middle of the car and bought it home even though we have perfectly good roof bars to use for such eventualities.

There was more fun to be had though, it was my infant school fete in the afternoon.

And I was just excited about it as Ellis was, even though i'm a junior now.  What better way is there to get loads of sweets so easily?

The face painting was a hit as usual:

The best game had to be the one being run by Neaves mum, you got 5 ping pong balls for 20p and had to bounce them off the table to land in a glass jar.  Whatever was in the jar any of the balls landed in was your prize!    I managed to amass a right haul!
We got to buy our reindeer food, and didn't win anything on the raffle so that was pretty much business as normal.
And then there was the visit to see Santa.  I was the biggest in the queue by a bit of a margin.  I don't care, I still  love all this stuff.  
He remembered where we lived and everything, we obviously asked for a whole load of stuff we'd not ever mentioned before.

Sunday

Our first job was to get the tree organised:

It was pretty much plain sailing this year, we're like a well oiled christmas machine.
Aside from a small squabble about who was cutting the net off it all went very well.
We left it to settle while we ate lunch and then set about decorating it in earnest.
The decorations box came down and well and truly ransacked.
It was all going so well until we discovered the fairy lights didn't really work.
No spare bulbs could be located either, so it was a quick trip to Homebase for a new set.
Excellent, that meant we could get a set of much more impressive LED ones, more lights, more 'disco' settings.
Once Dad had finally finished putting them on the rest of us could really get busy.
It obviously looked brilliant once we'd finished.

More Christmas excitement needed?  Of course!
We took a trip to the Newbury Christmas market and met up with Abi and Faye.
We were super excited, having already been with the Aunties.
The big wheel was first on the agenda:

It was realy cool with Abi and Faye being in the next car for us to wave at and generally have fun with as we went round (at extremely high speed it must be said).

It was also very nearly dark so everything had started to glow and twinkle down below:

The helter skelter was pretty good again of course.

There were some seasonal donkeys:

There was a board game stand we had a play on, the grown ups loved hanging about for us:

As the whole thing was vaguely german theme we had a bratwurst for tea, well half of one anyway, they were pretty big.
And so was the barbecue they were cooking them over!
We bumped into Ella and her family which was cool.
And then we had some hot doughnuts before heading off home.
I had candy floss instead, shame I managed to get my hair all sticky wearing the empty bag as a hat!

Monday

We did Strictly come dancing at dance club after school.  I partnered up with William, we had a great time, he was a brilliant dance partner and really went for it.  The grown ups watching were in stitches.
We were obviously feeling very theatrical, so while Mum and Dad were doing rubbish grown ups stuff in the kitchen we put a show together for them.
Indeed we did, I did some ballet.
And I performed a glow stick dance routine in the dark.
It was rather spectacular even though we do say so ourselves!