Tuesday
We did the first performance of our christmas play today, it went very well.
I spent most of the day making things to sell on our friday afternoon charity bazaar. Mrs Tichband kept a very close eye on the quality of our efforts ensuring only the best stuff would go on sale.
It was badge week at gymnastics, I passed my level 5 with ease.
We had the last week of netball club and after a good game or two we had sweets, crisps and squash, perfect way to round things out.
I decided it was high time to get stuck into the Christmas books at bed time, I still really love the pop up nativity book.
Wednesday
Mum and Dad came to my school play today. I started off full of enthusiasm for the singing and the actions.
Once i'd delivered my line though (in a beautiful, non hurried, loud, clear voice) I lost a little focus. Still, they all loved it. I had a bit of a wobble at the end though, as we made our way back to class I broke ranks to give Mum a cuddle, I didn't want her to go.....
I had to make a christmas decoration for our classroom at home. With Mums help I produced a really cool looking santa bauble. Then it was Team Kennet. My old school friend Maxim was there and I was really pleased to see him and catch up now he's moved schools. He didn't want to know though, I was quite upset about it....
Thursday
After school dance club was based on Strictly Come Dancing this week. I partnered Louise and took on the mantle of Suzanna and Kevin. We loved it, we danced pretty well too even if I do say so myself. It really was great fun. Once we were finished Ella and I noticed a poster had gone up with a list of competitive sports events for the new year. There was tag rugby, ten pin bowling, dodgeball and goodness knows what else. It just so happened Miss Langdon walked through (she looks after all the sports events at school) and we asked to be put down for everything!
Mum and Dad were going out so Auntie Trish was babysitting, excellent!
Just as they were leaving the Roundtable Santa came round the road.
Playing carols, wishing everyone merry christmas and rewarding a bit of change in the collection bucket with some sweets!
Sounds like a great deal to us.
Auntie Christine came round too, we played Monopoly and Jenga.
What a cool time.
Friday
It was finally the day of our christmas bazaar. We decided as a school that we would donate all our profits to charity and that we wanted to do it on aid of the typhoon in the Phillipines. Each class had it's own stall to sell what they had made. Ours had chocolates, truffles and some tree decorations. I was heavily involved in our pricing structure and took on the first sales stint. We got off to a good start and I made sure I put enough packets of chocolates and truffles aside to give one to Mum, Dad and Ellis. Dad got there just after i'd finished my stint which was good timing. I took him round, we had a drink and perused what was left on the stalls, which quite honestly wasn't much by now! As the afternoon drew to a close there were only a few items left on our stall and we were desperate ro sell out completely and shut up shop. Dad stepped in and after being offered a good deal he cleared all the remaining stock in one go. We were thrilled, we'd sold all of our stuff!
Back to swimming this week, we got our results....I hadn't passed again. I failed on two things I had previously passed on, so I know next term I can do the business.
Saturday
Swimming trip to the Oasis, we took Andy along too.
It was even weirder than usual in Swindon though, there was no one about.
Indeed, the pool was pretty much deserted, maybe everyone else was Christmas shopping or something?
Who cares, it was brilliant, no queues for the slides and the wave machine seemed to on every couplle of minutes.
We went home for lunch and a game of Monopoly.
In the evening we went out in the car 'Grizzy' spotting.
We found some really good ones too, but our favourite again was the one on Bury's Bank Road near the Greenham common gate and car park.
Then it was home for the Strictly semi finals.
No one was quite as good as Ned and Louise though.....
Sunday
We had a late breakfast, or an early lunch.
I think you'll find it's called brunch!
Whatever, it was lovely, sausages, bacon, black pudding, hash browns, beans, toast, mushrooms, eggs the lot!
After seeing that lot off we understandably had to have a very lazy slouching session.
Until it was time to go to the theatre that was.
Indeed, a new one for us too, the Watermill to see Pinocchio.
It was certainly a small theatre.
A really old building too, we loved exploring it before we went in and took our seats.
I was totally enthralled by the show, the actors were so close!
Yeah, it was pretty good it has to be said.
Especially the second half which was much funnier and smothered the crowd in bubbles! I couldn't believe his norse was really growing everytime he told a lie, how on earth did that happen?
We tried to explain it to her, but it really was a lost cause....
Monday
Our christmas carol concert at the methodist church was cancelled due to impending weather armageddon. Well, it was supposed to be heavy rain. We had to do it in the hall at school instead. The rain failed to materialise of course, so we were deprived of the best part of the whole carol concert, the walk into town and back!
We also heard that our bazaar last week raised over £700, thats pretty impressive I think?
We did our christmas dance after school, it was great fun.
And then once Ellis had gone to bed I watched a programmed called Battlefield Britain on BBC4, it was a real blood and guts account of the Romans taking on Boudicca. Right up my alley!
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