Back to school after holiday.
My friend Aidan gave me a pretty cool minion made of loom bands.
And I got straight back in to trading my Match Attax cards, even managing to shift some of my water damaged ones from holiday.
It was back to our clubs as well, i'd certainly missed netball.
And I was raring to go at gymnastics.
But all this activity had left us rather tired which wasn't conducive to finishing off our homework.
Nope we both went into meltdown.
Yeah, tears, hissy fits the lot.
Wednesday
I think Dad took pity on my homework plight and sorted me out a fantastic A3 graphic to form the basis of my five pillars of Islam, all I had to do was the writing on it (the hard bit).
Team Kennet was fun this week, I was in Abi's group.
And I was in the 'competition group' with my friends.
When we leftfirework night was in full swing, they were lighting up the sky all over the place on the drive home!
Thursday
Today was a big day for our household. I bought home my first musical instrument to practice.....a viola:
Our poor ears are in for quite an assault I think.
Friday
Well, despite our trials and tribulations regarding this weeks homework, we both got picked by our class teachers to show it off in assembly.
Yeah, my science project teddy parachute....
....and my five pillars of Islam poster earned us both a heap of housepoints and the adoration of the whole assembly.
Well done Dad, this had to be a first.
After school we had a netball match against our sporting nemesis, Falkland. We were really up for it and it. It has to be said we gave rhem a masterclass, as you can probably guess from the 12-1 scoreline. We were super pleased.
While this was going on Dad got collared to help put up three big gazbo's and I helped Mt Jones build the bonfire, both for the school fireworks event later on. It wss great fun, especially smashing up a chest of draws into more burnable chunks.
And after a few arguments and a few threats that we wouldn’t be going to the fireworks at all we managed to get to school.
The fire i'd helped build was roaring away and lively and warm to huddle around:
The fireworks themselves were brilliant, plenty of ooh's and ahh's to be had.
Running about with our mates was great, we even managed a game of football in the dark on the field!
Saturday
We were up pretty early so we could take Mum to London to see the poppies at the tower.
We drove most of the way and parked up by a green, there were squirrels all over the place, we loved them, but couldn't get very near to them.
We got on the tube and made our way accross London, it was quite a lot of stops but we didn't have to change lines.
We passed the time giving me silly pony tails and bunches.
We also blatted through all of Dad's emergency food and drink supplies that he had in his backpack which was very reckless.
By half past eight we were at the Tower, it was already pretty busy. But we got a good view:
Yeah, we did:
It really was an impressive sight, and quite amazing when each poppy represented a lost life.......
We carried on down to the river and overheard someone say that Tower Bridge was going to open soon.
None of us had seen it open before so we thougt we'd hang about.
The reason it was opening was for the Queens Barge, Gloriana to go through:
Sadly the queen wasn't on it, just a load of old people.
But they were very wavy so good on them.
We carried on walking along the river.
Everone else was going the other way towards the Poppies.
We ended up at a place called Borough Market.
It was like Disneyland for hungry people. There were. Bakery stalls, curry stalls, burger stalls, cup cakes, pretty much anything you could think of.
We bought ourselves some truly massive cookies for later.
And then joined the queue for the most popular looking stall that was selling breakfast baugettes. The smell was incredible from the sausages and the bacon.
The chaps workng there were great fun too.
And the one serving was very impressed when I asked for a chorizo in mine, he doesn't realis he's talking to the chorizo king obviously.
It was lovely too.
We carried on along the Thames and stumbled across a full size relica of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hinde ship which looked pretty cool.
We found a Paddington bear statue (we can't wait to see the new film):
Then we walked past the Globe theatre:
There were a troupe of Morris dancers going performing outside.
Weird!
Next up the Tate Modern.
We went in to have a little look around, i'm not really convinced by modern art it has to be said, most of it was rubbish.
I quite liked it actually, although some of it was a bit daft there were things that I really liked.
But what we all agreed on was that stuff featuring boobies or willies was hilarious.
A bit further along the river was the Sourhbank skateboarding area that Dad wanted to see. It's recently been saved from redevelopment as a load of coffee shops:
It looked pretty rubbish by todays standards, but apparently it was all there was back in the dark ages (the 1980's).
That was us pretty much done for the day, so we got back on the tube and headed back to car.
We were home and slumped on the sofa by half past three.
We had a recharge before heading off out again.
Yeah, to rollerskating at Northcroft.
We've been trying to fit this one in for ages, I was seriously excited and couldn't wait.
I was a bit more nervous, having never done any before:
It must be said, I did spend a fair amount of time on the floor.
I did a lot better of course, then our friends Lola and Tegan turned up:
They were really good at it, and so was their Dad!
They gave is both a few tips and we were soon zooming around with even more confidence.
The hockey sticks and balls certainly seemed to help as well.
We ended up joining in the games, a version of musical chairs....
....and even some races (the lolly prize was the clincher).
It was so nice to skate on the perfectly smooth, flat floor and I can't wait to have another go soon.
Sunday
After a decent lie in....
.....and an early morning evaluation of our bumps and bruises from rollerskating we were off to watch banger racing with the Halfords!
The first few races were a bit tame, but apparently it was juniors and hot rods which meant no crashing.
The first banger race however was quite something.
Noisy, smelly and totally crazy.
We didn't know which part of the track to watch, there were seemingly too many cars to be sensible.
It was okay though, half of them seemed to be smashed up and stuck in the wall after the first lap.
We lapped it up:
We couldn't believe some of the cars could keep going with the levels of damage they were sustaining.
We came home, caught up on Strictly, had a bath and went to bed.
I fell asleep on the sofa and Dad almost did himself a mischief carrying me to bed. He hasn't done that for a good few years. Apparently my eyes opened and I was talking to him but I can't remember anything about it all.
Monday
After school dance was a lot of fun today, we got to put a short freestyle sction into our routines. I decided the funky chicken was an appropriate move to throw down. The rest of my friends agreed as we were all doing it!
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