We had our school panto trip to the Anvil in Basingstoke, so this meant a dead exciting coach trip! We got to eat our packed lunches at the theatre befrore we went in to see the show as well.
The show itself was dead exciting, Aladdin, with a burst of real fire every time the Ghini appeared, I was well impressed.
Wednesday
We had our school Christmas dinner, me and my mates sat with Miss Burger, a teaching assistant from one of the year six classes, she was great fun and really interesting. We discussed at great lengths what would and would not be acceptable dining behaviour if we were guests of the queen! I lapped all this up.
We had our School Christmas Disco, quite honestly it was a bit of a let down as none of the boys would dance with us girls. Apparently this is quite normal? Bit rubbish if you ask me, we need more lads like Ned in out year obviously.
After school we hassled Dad to help us make our food for the class parties the following day amd set up a sandwich production line:
Then it was the last Team Kennet session of the year, which can only mean one thing, sweet races!
And a dubious fancy dress theme, this year, Scottish Christmas:
I managed a decent haul in my bag by the end of the night, and overflowing with Christmas spirit I even let Ellis have one.
Thursday
Class party day, yay!
Indeed, our sandwiches went down very well.
We had a bit of a disco competition at ours, I won best dancer award and was proper chuffed.
We played Musical statues and I loved that at ours.
Then it was after school dance club, with our special Christmas themed dance which was very well recieved by the watching parents and siblings.
Friday
The last day of term at long last!
We had our end of term assembly, when I saw Mum was there I knew I was in line for one of our special awards. I was so pleased to see her there as i'd felt a bit iffy and delicate first thing at home. Anyway, my award was for Science, for generally being a clever clogs in the subject. I had to go stage to collect my certificate and take a bow. After that the teachers sang the 12 days of Christmas, they managed to re-write a line about the amount of lost property and hrew a massive bundle of uncliamed jumpers and what have you into us kids all sat on the floor.
Other than that it was the usual slack morning and then early finish.
But this year, Mum came to pick us up, we were so excited about that, not that we don't like Dad or anything.....
So we got home and started up the 'build it yourself' bubble machine that I got on our steam train trip, it was brilliant:
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Then we had a Wii session, we're really loving the Wii at the moment.
It's brilliant now Ellis is a bit older and can actually be bothered to play properly.
Once Dad was home and we'd finished our game we were off to Cornwall for the weekend.
Indeed we were, we both filled the couple of hours in the car by writing stories.
Yeah, thats right, even me!
We read them out when we stopped at Exeter services to stop for a bite to eat.
Yeah, i've discovered Costa's Cheese and Ham toasted sandwiches.....deeeeeelish!
We got to Cornwall quite early really, although it was dark and totally lashing it down with rain.
As the caravan park is closed for the winter we had to seek alternative accomodation at the Trevose Golf Club. Mum and I were sent off through the foul weather to sort the keys out while Dad and Ellis sat snug in the car.
We were staying in one of the telly tubby houses, but we were initially sad that ours wasn't one of the grass roofed ones at the front.
This soon gave way once we were inside though, it was lovely.
So after a rampant room exploring and bed choosing session we were tucked up in bed.
We decided to go in together rather than have a room each.
Saturday
Well the rain had stopped and the sun was out, of course it was, this is Cornwall after all.
And once we'd sorted out our advent calendars which ahd made the trip down with us:
It was time for a proper game of hide and seek.
There were so many places to hide it was brilliant, there were utility rooms, cupboards, wardrobes and all sorts of nooks and crannies.
It was a whole family event, although Dad in particular had a bit of trouble using some of the hiding places that we were.
We then had a voluntary shower all of our own accord.
Ned even washed my hair for me!
We had a brief slump with the telly:
Before we were out for a walk. We got to explore the place a bit outside now it was dry and light.
The views out over the golf course to the sea beyond were lovely.
And the houses were very interesting, I loved walking over the grassy roofed ones on the way out.
We made our way down the narrow trail thorugh the dunes to Constantine:
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It was lovely down there, barely anyone about, not like summer thats for sure.
We loved walking along the sand, we found a witches finger (seaweed stump) and rather randomly a lemon (an actual whole lemon).
I found a rather snazzy pair of sunglasses that I decided made me look like a rock star:
And of course, we had to get our wellies full of water by going in too deep:
We made our way around to Treyarnon, which by comparison was a lot busier, but still very quiet.
The sea foam getting blown up was really cool, we almost convinced ourselves it was Christmas snow!
We headed back via the campsite, which was totally deserted.
Yeah, it was really weird being so quiet and empty.
We made our way back for lunch and then all settled down to watch our Arthur Christmas DVD.
Which we loved.
We then had a couple of games of sleeping queens before heading into Padstow to see the Christmas lights.
The biggest and possibly most impressive of which weren't actually switched on while we were there.
We didn't mind, we wandered about a bit and noticed that every pub in town was full of people dressed up as Santa's Elves.
We headed back and enjoyed a full on christmas dinner with all the trimmings, santa plates and seasonal candle holder and best of all, crackers:
So we got home and started up the 'build it yourself' bubble machine that I got on our steam train trip, it was brilliant:
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Then we had a Wii session, we're really loving the Wii at the moment.
It's brilliant now Ellis is a bit older and can actually be bothered to play properly.
Once Dad was home and we'd finished our game we were off to Cornwall for the weekend.
Indeed we were, we both filled the couple of hours in the car by writing stories.
Yeah, thats right, even me!
We read them out when we stopped at Exeter services to stop for a bite to eat.
Yeah, i've discovered Costa's Cheese and Ham toasted sandwiches.....deeeeeelish!
We got to Cornwall quite early really, although it was dark and totally lashing it down with rain.
As the caravan park is closed for the winter we had to seek alternative accomodation at the Trevose Golf Club. Mum and I were sent off through the foul weather to sort the keys out while Dad and Ellis sat snug in the car.
We were staying in one of the telly tubby houses, but we were initially sad that ours wasn't one of the grass roofed ones at the front.
This soon gave way once we were inside though, it was lovely.
So after a rampant room exploring and bed choosing session we were tucked up in bed.
We decided to go in together rather than have a room each.
Saturday
Well the rain had stopped and the sun was out, of course it was, this is Cornwall after all.
And once we'd sorted out our advent calendars which ahd made the trip down with us:
It was time for a proper game of hide and seek.
There were so many places to hide it was brilliant, there were utility rooms, cupboards, wardrobes and all sorts of nooks and crannies.
It was a whole family event, although Dad in particular had a bit of trouble using some of the hiding places that we were.
We then had a voluntary shower all of our own accord.
Ned even washed my hair for me!
We had a brief slump with the telly:
Before we were out for a walk. We got to explore the place a bit outside now it was dry and light.
The views out over the golf course to the sea beyond were lovely.
And the houses were very interesting, I loved walking over the grassy roofed ones on the way out.
We made our way down the narrow trail thorugh the dunes to Constantine:
.JPG)
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It was lovely down there, barely anyone about, not like summer thats for sure.
We loved walking along the sand, we found a witches finger (seaweed stump) and rather randomly a lemon (an actual whole lemon).
I found a rather snazzy pair of sunglasses that I decided made me look like a rock star:
And of course, we had to get our wellies full of water by going in too deep:
We made our way around to Treyarnon, which by comparison was a lot busier, but still very quiet.
The sea foam getting blown up was really cool, we almost convinced ourselves it was Christmas snow!
We headed back via the campsite, which was totally deserted.
Yeah, it was really weird being so quiet and empty.
We made our way back for lunch and then all settled down to watch our Arthur Christmas DVD.
Which we loved.
We then had a couple of games of sleeping queens before heading into Padstow to see the Christmas lights.
The biggest and possibly most impressive of which weren't actually switched on while we were there.
We didn't mind, we wandered about a bit and noticed that every pub in town was full of people dressed up as Santa's Elves.
We headed back and enjoyed a full on christmas dinner with all the trimmings, santa plates and seasonal candle holder and best of all, crackers:
The fortune telling fish was a big hit of course.
But even better than that was the mystery number calculator cards....mind blowing! I loved them so much and made sure I kept them safe to take to school in the new year.
We rounded the day out watching the Strictly Come Dancing final.......
Sunday
Our last day, it had come too soon and none of us wanted to go home.
Nope, we had a leisurly breakfast and enjoyed laughing at the golfers struggling on the approach to the 18th green....some of them were not having a good time by the looks of it!
We packed up our things and made our way back to the club house to return our key.
We made sure we told the ladies on reception how nice the house had been and all what we had been doing and wished them a Merry Christmas.
We made our way to Anne's Cottage Surf Shop to see what we could get ourselves.
Yeah, I was forced into trying jeans on.....but I got into it in the end.
As we were leaving the chaninging rooms we saw two of the instructors from my Gymnastics club!
They were pretty surprised to see me it has to be said, we had a nice chat.
Lunchtime was calling so we finally all agreed on going to the Pickwick Inn, in keeping with the usual sequence of events it was of course raining and miserable when we got there. It's always the same, even in the summer.
It was lovely in there, all decorated for Christmas with warm fires burning. But where we usually sit in the family room had a great big christmas tree there!
We had a nice feed and then could have quite happily dozed off.
But we had to go.....
As we made our way back to the car a Christmas miracle took place, it was bright and sunny, we got to finally see the view out over the Camel Estuary and Padstow for once.
Indeed we did.
Monday
Mum was off with us, we had a lazy morning, just hanging about and playing Wii.
When Dad got home I decided to do a cart wheel into the Christmas tree....this didn't go down too well. A quick blast with the hoover sorted it out through.
It was cinema time!
We battled through the wind and rain to see Frozen.
We pulled up all the arm rests in the cinema and managed to all cuddle up together, how lovely.
The film was fantastic, I loved it, I hid my head in Dad during the scary bits and sobbed with Mum at the sad and happy bits.
And I forgot all about the packet of Minstrels until about ten minutes from the end of the film.
We walked up through town to get some McDonalds and happened to bump into Auntie Christine.
It was like proper Christmas once we'd seen her and dragged her along for a bit!
Mum and her diappeared pretty sharpish to their Christmas Quiz though, and we had to keep Dad company.
So here we are, the day before Christmas eve.
I'm in two minds about it all. I am of course looking forward to the big day, but I also don't want it to get here in other ways. I love the build up, the preparations, the anticipation, seeing all our family and friends so much that I don't want it to be over......
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