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Tuesday

It snowed, at last.

It looked pretty exciting when we got up too, it had settled at least.

Although it didn't look like it was going to hang around for long.

There was still plenty left at break time and lunchtime at school though.  We made some massive snowballs and rolled them accross the field.

I had to sneakily wear mums fluffy cuffed gloves.  I was worried I wouldn't be allowed out to play without any and id lost my own ones in Rhos.

Swimming was a massive inconvenience, i'd much rather have played in the snow some more.

We had a netball match scheduled away at Marlston house, a posh school.  It wasn't cancelled because of the snow so that was a result.  I only got to play for one quarter of the match though, which was a shame.  Having said that, we got beat 9 - 7.  The netball 'tea' after the game was quite spectacular, hot pasties, crisps, penguins, fruit......the grown ups got tea, coffe, freshly made sandwiches and cup cakes!.

I got well looked after too, even though we arrived after the match had finished.

It was really interesting talking to the girls on the other team, they had some cool stuff, like their own horses!

But some of them boarded there and their school days are a lot longer than ours and even include saturday classes.

We're doing a lot more on the trampoline at gymnastics at the moment, for which ypu need to wear socks.  This is of course deeply problematic for me as I hardly ever wear any.

Wednesday

I had my first after school Football club session this week after endless cancellations.  I loved it, even though it was a bit of a mad rush to get home in time to have tea and get ready for Team Kennet.

I mastered the tricky art of the triple jump this week!

And I 'enjoyed' Alistairs company for a second week.

Thursday

We had another 'away' netball match against Speenhamland.  This time I played three quarters of the match and we won by a rather convincing scoreline 18 - 4.  We were pretty awesome, in fact it caused a little bit of bad feeling with the opposition who decided to make some accusations about some of our team cheating.  What nonsense, as if we needed to do that?  Anyway, the upshot of our latest win was that we had qualified for the league finals to be played at St Gabriels in the near future.  On a monday afternoon, bonus, more school missed!

We got there in time to watch the most of the match too, I loved watching our school do so well, although the provisions after the game were a little disappointing after tuesdays efforts.

It was also parents evening......

Yeah, they seem to come around rather too quickly for my liking.

Mine went very well by all accounts and i'm getting on rather well it would seem.

Yeah, me too on the whole, although I could do better with my written work and reading. Standard stuff then.

Friday

We had a special Rhos assembly.  Mum came along which was rather nice.  I suspect she was lured with the promise of all the leftover tuck that would be on offer afterwards back at the classroom.

It was cool to see her in assembly, I gave her a nice wave.

As well as the Rhos stuff Mrs Watkins also proudly told the whole schoool about our Netball victory the previous day.

I chattered all the way out back to class and didn't give Mum any sort of acknowledgement as I left the hall.

I headed back to class and ate my own weight in biscuits.

And we headed out on a walk accross the fields with a school visitor who knew all about the Civil War and the battles thathappened on the fields near the school.  We all know Ned is the history buff but I was utterly captivated by it all too.  I lapped it up, especially the musket balls found in the mud.  I also got to wear my lovely new wellies which were proper nice.

Saturday

Up early today and off to London zoo.
Yeah, same arrangement as last time, drive to Turnham Green, load up on picnic supplies in the M&S and then head on into town on the underground.   There was no one about really so I had great fun using the rails in the train as monkey bars and climbing apparatus.
We eventually surfaced in Camnden Town, which was pretty weird.
Yeah, there were loads of stalls setting up and loads of shoe shops, most of them with massive, oversized trainers attached to the buildings above them which were pretty cool. 
It didn't look at all like an area that might have a zoo.  But after a short walk we were in much more zoo like surroundings:

We hadn't been to a zoo for ages so we were pretty up for it, despite it being a pretty cold and bleak day:

The gorilla's were awesome, especially the big male, he was very powerful looking and pretty scary when he walloped the glass and ran off at a rate.

The tigers were seriously cute, cuddling up with each other:

But every now and again they gave you a sublte reminder they were in fact scary beasts by having a little snarl and baring their teeth at us.

The reptile house was pretty epic.

And so was the Kimodo dragon, I hope he didn't mind us having our picnic in the relative warm of his viewing gallery.

It closed pretty early being winter and all that, so we had to rush visit the petting zoo.

Which was a shame as the goats were super cute and loved a fuss.

And we just about managed to squeeze in a visit to the aquarium, which turned out to be much bigger than we first thought.

We made our way back to the car on the underground.

Which was much busier than in the morning, but quite an eye opener. There were grown ups in cow print onesies and others with a full face paint on....

Sunday

A lazy day today after yestrerdays many miles of walking.

So what did we eventually get dragged out on.....a Walk!!!!!

We retraced some of the route of my school mapp reading jaunt and ended up down the river on Northcroft Marsh.

I almost ended up going in!

Luckily I saved him.

We did some skimmers and headed back home.

Through lots and lots of sloppy, muddy puddles.

Monday

Big news today, I finally passed my five times table at school.  I know, everyone kept telling me it was easy, but for some reason I seemed to struggle with this particular one.  I was super pleased to finally get it done!