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Tuesday

The last day of the holidays was finally upon us.

As is now traditional, Dad had the day off with us.

We hatched a plan to hit the Freespace BMX track and skatepark.

This shot was taken prior to me getting a bit over confident and pulling a wall of death style move right near the top.  It ended pretty badly when I stalled and found myself heading down at a pretty quick rate, headed right for a puddle.  I got pretty wet and the handlebars rammed me in the stomach.  Ouch.

I kept it low on the scooter and managed to stay upright.

The BMX track was in a pretty poor state sadly.

It used to be brilliant, gently downhill from top to bottom with nice big berms.

But now it was pretty overgrown and the surface had been worn away leaving quite a rocky track.

It was a lot more suited to my mountain bike.

I wasn't so keen on Ned's old BMX, it's pretty twitchy and hard to ride at the best of times:

We decided Knightwood, just up the road would be a much better bet:

And the sun came out:

I decide to give photography a go:

As well as riding a few more laps:

I gave Dad a good thrashing of course:

I did a few laps of the pump track without a helmet or gloves, to feel the breeze:

Dad wasn't happy with me for that one, but it's only what he used to do when he was my age!

I was soon kitted back up again for the big track though, it's a lot faster on there:

We rode ourselves pretty much to a standstill:

And spotted the biggest thistle we had ever seen:

Our tummies were telling us it was time for lunch, so while Dad was packing the bikes away we played on the park for a bit before heading for the Asda cafe.

Pepperoni pizza and chips for me.

Massive ham and cheese panini with a side salad for me, perfect!

Followed by a bit of choloate fudge cake that was so big I couldn't manage it all.

And a lovely slighty more fancy than normal chocolate eclair for me:

So once lunch was done and dusted we had to decide what to do for the rest of the day.
Time was getting on so our options were a bit limited but we settled on going back to the park in Marlborough.
Yeah, the one with the really high monkey bars that defeated us a couple of years back.
We nailed it this time round though, after a few false starts and complaints of slippery hands.
The rest of the park is good fun over there too, it was a nice way to while away a late summer afternoon before we made a stop at the garage on the way home for an ice cream.
I still had gymnastics to go to, but as i've gone up to the year three timings I didn't have to go until 5:15.  So that was good, even though we did go straight there from our day trip.  I was pleased to see a few of my friends had also moved up as well as Abi who already goes to the later class.
When we got home the realisation hit that we were back to school tomorrow and hadn't learnt any of our 20 spellings over the holidays.
Speak for yourself, Ii'd learned at least half of mine.
But my policy of leaving it to the last minute really didn't sit well with me now, there were tears....

Wednesday

Back to school day then.

Yep, me into year six, my last year at John Rankin.

And me up to year three, my first year in Juniors, complete with proper shirt and tie combo:

We got eased back in pretty nicely, my new teacher Mrs Buxey seems really nice, she was very impressed with my history knowledge.

And I have Miss Stubbs.  Our main topic of the day was the ancient Egyptians which was brilliant as I already knew a bit about that from Ned!

But what was most cool was being able to see each other at playtimes and that.  We really enjoyed it.  I even gave her a little cuddle when the bell rang and we had to go back to class.

So after a tiring first day back it would have been nice to have a quiet evening and maybe an early night.

No chance, it was Team Kennet.  We're on to the last few weeks of outside training now but the weather has been lovely.  All Sunny evenings with beautiful sunsets over the common, very pleasant indeed.

Thursday/Friday

Not sure what really happened at the end of last week, it's all a bit of a blur of back to school and sleepy evenings really.

We have been really enjoying Robson Green's Extreme Fishing programme of an evening though.

Saturday

Mary Berry was siging books in Mum's shop!

How very exciting.

We took a bike ride into town to see if we could get one.

We bumped into Slim and Trace and Den and Gail having a natter near the market place, so an impromptu family gathering of sorts.  

Yeah, was nice to see them all.

Then we saw the queue outside Mum's shop, it was massive, we decided not to bother waiting.

So went into the shop to see if we could catch a glimpse, this is as close as we could get:

It was lunchtime, we were hungry and I thought i'd chance my arm by suggesting Pizza Express for lunch.....and recieved universal agreement!

Yeah, nice one Ned.

Lovely lovely garlic dough balls and an enquiry about the possibility of having a make your own pizza birthday party for me there next year.

We made our way home and somehow managed to get the grown ups to sort us out an afternoon with Marny and Kimi.

Yeah, I went round theirs to play Skylanders and Minecraft.

And Marny came to us for some arts and crafts stuff:

A bit of mucking about in the pop up tent in the garden and a trip to the park.
We ended up all round theres for tea and a game of hide and seek.
And cat bothering, they have three cats.  This became quite apparent by my red puffy eyes and struggle to breathe...oh dear.

Sunday
We awoke pretty late, the picnic was already in the bag, Legoland day! 
Once we'd had our breakfast we set off, but we didn't get there until midday really.
Luckily though, the place was deserted!
Yeah, there were no real queues for anything so we filled our boots and went on stuff over and over again.
As well as a few things we hadn't been on for years.
But what I really wanted to do was play in the water park.
It was a nice sunny and warm day so why not?

It was great fun, sliding, splashing and all that, but snuggling?  That was even better!

We got dried off and changed, despite being terrorised by the spiders in the changing rooms and carried on around the park until closing time.
And I also got to have a photo with none other than Emmet:

There wasn't even any traffic to contend with coming home, how lovely.

Monday
Well the start of our first full week back.
Which meant clubs are starting up again.
Yeah, so now we both go to the same same Dance class session after school.
Which makes it much harder for Dad to watch us both at the same time, in opposite corners of the hall.
We went for a walk after tea, just down the park.
I managed to climb up the park sign for the first time ever.
And we really enjoyed seeing large groups of birds flying over in well smart V shaped patterns.


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