Our first week of swimming with the school, how exciting. Except we didn't do thst much actual swimming as we were getting put into groups. For the record i'm in the group halfway up the big pool. I also got into trouble because I wore my tankini. The not we got home only said no bikini's so I reckon I ought to be okay anyway. Anyway, I struggle with one piece costumes, they never fit right. If they fit round the bum, they are too short in the body. If they are long enough in the body they're loose round the bum.
But it's really not the same as having Ned about. Mealtimes are over in a flash and i've got no one to argue or fight with. I was missing him already so decided i'd write him a little letter and print the Ian pictures off for him too.
Monday
Netball club was back on, even though we have still lost a corner of the court due to the builders compound.
And then it was my first week back at gymnastics in our new gym. It still isn't quite finished but it's really cool. I was the first of the several people in my class who go to KD to have a session there so that made it extra cool.
Wednesday
I enjoyed my Viola lesson a lot more today, we're learning a new song.
We found out that Mr Gilham will be at Rhos with us, and better still i'm going to be in his group.
Team Kennet again, hammering it down with rain again, dodging the puddles in the darkness on the way to the gym again........
Thursday
I've got back into Age of Empires, but it didn't end well after tea. I spent ages building up an extensive army but then bottled it and didn't want to take them to war. I tried to get Mum or Dad to do it for me but they didn't want to know as they said i'd blame them if they lost the battle. In the end I just switched the PC off and went to bed.
Friday
Just on the quiet, between you and me, I was starting to get very slight jitters about the Rhos trip.....nothing I can't overcome of course.
Andy came round for tea, we talked him into oblivion.
I think they booked a holiday at some point in a villa.
But the main thing was a game of 7 Wonders, Mum won again!!! But I think Anday is a convert.
Saturday
Up early and off to the cinema.
But not early enough on my part of course.....i'm not great at getting going in the mornings as we all know.
It nearly cost us a stop at the shop to buy or sweets for goodness sake!
We watched a Film called Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
It was pretty funny, but I think the grown ups liked it more than us kids really.
I spent the afternoon playing Minecraft.
And I had a nice slump.
We did have another game of 7 Wonders, which quite unbelievably Dad won!
I sat at the table with them doing my art project homework.
Then it was roller skating time, I was under strict instructions to take it easy so I didn't injure myself before the Rhos trip.
So it was a good job it was me who fell over and hurt their knee wasn't it! I did recover enough to skate the Ellie and Bella from school.
I did have a little tumble, but played it down so I didn't get into trouble. I also did very well in the race this week, i'm finding some speed!
Sunday
Well the big day was finally here, our trip to Rhos-Y-Gwaliau, the highlight of my primary school years as far as I can see. I was up pretty early and crammed in as much Minecraft as I could. My bag had miraculously packed itself, all I needed to sort out were a last few essentials (horsey top trumps, Nerf top trumps and a Rubiks snake).
We took him up to school, his whole class were hanging about, bags and children everywhere.
I signed myself in, got told off for having too many sweets for the end of week party to hand in and then made my way to the coach, where Dylan was waiting for me:
I gave Ellis, Dad and Mum a massive cuddle each and then got on the coach. We got sat down about halfway back, behind Ella and Rebecca and next to Tilly and Maisy, poor girls, they were in for a tiring trip sat near us.
The coach sat there for ages.
We gave the assembled grown ups plenty of waves while we waited for the off. Mum made a lame attempt at making a heart sign with her hands which was super embarrassing.
Finally they were off.
Yeah, at last! I quickly made the heart sign for Mum as we pulled away our epic journey. I wasn't really looking forward to this bit. Apparently it's a five hour drive with plenty of toilet stops.......no doubt i'll fill you in on all the details on my return.....
So, that was it. Ned was gone and as soon as we went home things seemed unusually quiet without him around. I decided that Ian would be the best Ned substitute for the week. So we took him to Pets at Home in the car:
It was ace there, I so want a pet but as usual the answer was no.
Then we took him home for a game of Minecraft:
And a game of 7 Wonders:
We did get a text from the school to say they had arrived sagely and were getting settled in which was nice.
Well it was a strangely quiet morning with just me to get ready with Mum. I was pretty timely for once though so that was a pleasant side affect.
We had to go on a walk around Newbury today, I wasn't over excited about it as it was really cold. We went to see some noteable Newbury landmarks like the church and the Corn Exchange. My sentence on the Corn Exchange was very insightful, it read:
The Corn Exchange used to be a Corn Exchange.
I think that pretty much summed up my enthusiasm for the whole thing.
After school dance club was a whole different matter though, All about that bass was much better than last weeks uptown funk and I was well into it.
We had a curry for tea that was a bit on the spicy side so it was a good job we had some Ben and Jerry's to cool things down. I couldn't believe we were eating such things without Ned around, he'd be gutted to miss out.
He wouldn't have been gutted to miss out on an early evening walk thats for sure, it was cold but a lovely clear night for star gazing with some really good twinkly ones. I bet it looked even better from North Wales.....
No comments:
Post a Comment