I had a much better day at school, things are on the up.
After school I had another lengthy session on the adventure playground.
We had netball, there's a match next week so it was serios(ish) practicing.
Then it was off the gymnastics.
And as if that wasn't enough it was our meet the teacher night to set out what we'd be learning over the year and a presentation on our trip to Rhos-Y-Gwalia. The most exciting and epic thing ever, a whole week away in North Wales. It apparently isn't all fun and games though, we have a chores rota and have to actually make our own packed lunches!
I played on the adventure playground again, I love the adventure playground in case you hadn't noticed......
In a fairly standard turn of events for us, it was the deadline day for covering our project books and we hadn't done it. There was a frenzied flurry of activity to get it done, Dad excelled himself with the sticky backed plastic covering. He normally wrinkles it up and gets air bubbles and all sorts in it, but this time it was perfect!
Being an agricultural show, we also enjoyed a tractor or two:
Wednesday
So once again I decided to put myself for school council representative elections. I put together a spur of the moment presentation which seemed to do the trick. A lot of people I asked afterwards seemed to have voted for me so fingers crossed for Monday when the winners are announced.
I got a glowing report in my book for my maths efforts in class as well. Apparently I did twice as much as I had to and got it all right!
And we had our first Viola lessons in class. It was so exciting, even opening their plush cases was a lovely experience. They were lined with soft lovely velvet and fitted the instruments so perfectly. I also enjoyed getting to play them a bit too, i'm sure we made aome beautiful sounds.
We watched the start of the football match against Parsonds Down,
I wasn't in the team so thought i'd hang around in a supporter capacity with Robert. Once we'd gone 3 - 0 down though it all seemed a bit of a lost cause and we went home.
Thursday
We played football at school, I scored a wonder goal, as verified by Dylan to Dad after school.
We had a few more takers for rugby this week which was a good thing.
Friday
We had a school trip to Chiltern Open Air Museum. It was briiliant, there were loads of different houses there from the iron age (they had no chimneys to let the smoke out from their fires), right through to the Victorian one, which had an authentic victorian toilet. In addition to that we made butter and bread (I got commended on my excellent mixing technique, honed at home slaving over brownie mixture).
We had our friday spelling test and I got a rather i pressive six out of six!
In the evening we went to Abi and Faye's.
We had an awesome game of hide and seek.
Watched a dvd.
And I got to play board games with the grown up's!
Saturday
Well after last nights late one, nothing much happened ithe morning.
Well, until Ali and Hugo came round to call for me, I was still in my pyjama's. I got changed pretty quickly and we headed off put to see if Dylan was about too. There was also another massive event, Minecraft was finally available for the Xbox one! I was very excited indeed, it's been a long wait for this one. I left Dad to download it for me......
I got Mum and Dad to myself, we went to the shop for some sweets and then to the park for a bit.
Once it was only Ali and left we came home to check on Minecraft progress, it was ready to play!! We got stuck in on two player mode, ate bacon sandwiches and cheesey balls...perfect!
Auntie Trish came round in the evening, we were taking her to Pewsey carnival!
She hadn't been before, we hoped it was going to be a good year as we'd also rounded up Andy and Owen and Kirsty.
Turns out we had nothing to worry about, it was great:
This was one of the early push along floats, the ones on the backs of lorries were brilliant.
And there were plenty of them too, with loud music and plenty of targets to throw coins at!
The little candles over the river afterwards were so amazing, we were blown away:
Sunday
So after another late night after the carnival, we were in lay in mode again.
When we did get ourselves up though, we were pretty keen to get going.
Yeah, Newbury show day!
We do like Newbury Show, even though there is a lot of walking.
We loved making a thorough inspection of the tank on display:
We loved getting in the parade ring to fuss the packs of hounds.
Especially the youngest ones.
They were seriously cute, I made a particular friend who stood up on his hind legs, leaning against me for a fuss for ages.
The sports zone was a big hit again of course.
We got involved in all sorts, tennis, athletics, bike riding.....
And skiing!
We had a quick lesson, and after a shaky start we got on very well.
Yeah, it was seriously weird having these great big planks on your feet to begin with!
We made smoothies on a bike:
And did a spot of rugby.
They even had a rugby ball bucking bronco which was huge fun.
And it turns out we both seemingly have a talent for rowing of all things.
Yeah, there was a digital rowing machine you could have a go at. It measured how far you could get in 2 minutes. I managed 450 metres.
And I racked up just over 300 metres.
There was a score board they were putting peoples names on, I was well ahead for my age group and actually second over all to a 13 year old.
The food tent was of course a big attraction.
Dad and I sampled some black cheese (yes, it really was black).
There was also a stand giving samples of chorizo and various types of salami. We loved that and stuffed ourselves.
The fudge stall was every bit as good as last year. In fact it was better, being late on sunday afternoon the man was dishing out loads of samples as he didn't want to take any home with him.
I told him I didn't like fudge. He was mortified.
I didn't, I bought a big slab of chocolate flavoured stuff, it was delish!
And I found myself a marshmallow kebab, covered in chocolate from a chocolate fountain:
I did however try a bit of the fudge, and it turned out to actuially be lovely. I went back to the fudge man and told him i'd changed my mind, I think he was pleased about that.
We watched the cattle parade around the showring, there were some lovely cows and bulls.
Some very clean looking sheep.
And a pig that was driven around in a trailer, lazy thing!
Then it was the freestyle motocross display.
This was very cool indeed, they set up their ramps and we were in the perfect viewing spot.
They did loads of tricks and talked on radio mikes all the way through, very impressive.
I was certainly impressed, I do love a motorbike.......
The show was winding up so we made our way back to the car, which we found easily in the sprawling carpark, despite not taking any real notice of where it was when we left it!
Monday
Bit of a struggle to get up for school it has to be said.
But we did okay.
And it was well worth it, I got to go up in assembly to accept the role of School Councillor! Yes, i've finally managed it after all these years. I got a certificate and a badge to wear (a smart yellow shield shape). Even better was that because we sit at the back in assembly it was a very long walk to the stage to pick it up, which I certainly made the most of.
After school dance was cool, we got to form small groups of our own choosing. So Lilly, Harry and I managed to get in a group with Ben, Joe and Ned, all our big brothers!
Yeah, it was surprisingly good fun actually.
I spent all night beaming with happiness with my school councillor election victory.
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