Tuesday
So for international week, as we were doing Spain we made a visit to La Tasca for some food tasting. The chorizo was obviously lush....you can keep the rest of it though.
Yeah, the year 4's got pizza, talk about rubbing it in, we got nothing!
It was the school book fair after school, the one time a year we are interested in books!
Gymnastics was a pretty warm affair this week, there were a lot of bright pink cheeks leaving thr gym when we finished.
Wednesday
The day no one was waiting for, the year three Viola and viola concert assembly. Still, we had to grin and bear it and endure the torture. The real stinker was a version of uptown funk on violins, in comparison that our viola stuff sounded almost passable.
Being the hottest day of the year we decided against Team Kennet, packed ourselves a picnic and went to the outdoor pool instead.
It seemed a little smarter in general than last time we went there.
We got there just in time too, it was one in one out after we had got in as they had reached the maximum capacity.
Andy managed to get in eventually and meet up with us.
Ben and Lilly were there too, I went diving in the deep end with Ben.
I had a great time larking about with Lilly.
Friday
Got into a bit more trouble at school today, defending and helping out Amy. It didn't go down too well with the teachers though, although they did sympathise, to a degree with my motives. Another red card for the collection.
It wasn't all bad though, it was Amy's birthday tea party after school. It was brilliant fun, even her sisters were on good form. We even had a water fight to make the most of the continuing hot spell.
While she was there I persuaded Mum and Dad to take me to the outdoor pool again. A load of my mates were going so it was nice to meet up with them for some fun and help them share their picnics.
Saturday
The most exciting thing for some time, Alastairs painballing trip. I was so looking forward to this one. It was every bit as good as i'd hoped it would be too.
We took a bike ride to victoria park, it was a much less frantic affair without Ned constantly gunning it along then stopping for us to catch up, then gunning it again and weaving all over the path. We really rather enjoyed it!
Paintballing was so cool, we got kitted up with helmets and visors and gloves and loaded our guns with paintballs. We played loads of different games, involving raiding castles and trying to get the 'president' onto an actual bus. The other teams there were good fun too. What a top day.
When he got home he was a sweaty, painty mess and yet he still couldn't understand why he had to have a shower!
Meh, I wasn't that mucky?
We went to a barbecue at Chris and Kates in the evening, they had done a great job and had got the whole gang out.
Yeah, pretty much everyone was there, obviously Finlay and Millie, then there was Abi and Faye, Kimi and Marny, Max, Leo and Hartley, Fen and Yanna (who we hadn't seen for ages) and even Nate.
We had a great time.
I had a long stretch in goal and made some great saves.
But the real highlight was Max giving us a 'super boost' on the trampoline.
Sunday
Between Dad and I we'd cooked up a scheme to got a Downhill Bike race on Sunday, take part and then meet up with Mum and Ellis (driven there by Andy) at Hollycombe Steam Fair which just so happened to be right next door. Great plan we thought. We got to the race venue nice and early and walked the track, it looked okay so we thought we'd sign on and get stuck in. We headed up to the top of a frankly exhausting push up path and got ready for practice to start. It went pretty badly from the first corner where I took the wrong line and fell off. It was a steep section of track that was also surprisingly wet and slimy, I didn't get myself composed properly so pretty soon found myself off again, and then again. Once we got onto the less slippery section I was flying though, between the really tight trees all the way to the bottom. We pushed back up and had another go. I got the first corner right but things soon went wrong again and I had another couple of offs. I decided this really wasn't for me. I went back to the car, ate some pretzels and played on the Ipad until Mum, Ellis and Andy turned up. I was pretty gutted about it all it has to be said.
It was great to see Dad though, I gave him a big cuddle and wished him luck before his first race run.
I took Mum and Ellis and Andy up the track to the best point to watche from (where we'd seen plenty of crashes during practice).
The woods were really lovely to wander through.
We watched the first race runs and had to wait ages for Dad to come down as it ran pretty much in age category order.
Yeah, being as he was in Veterans class, a fact I loved shouting at him as encouragement as he went past.
He looked surprisingly competent and at least he didn't fall off, we made plenty of noise for him.
We wandered down and met him at the bottom, he'd managed to not kill himself and was pretty happy with how it went.
So we left him to it and headed off to the steam fair.
He still had one run to take so arranged to meet us after he'd finished.
Hollycombe then, as cool as ever even if the Haunted House has been removed for renovation.
Although it's possible that we might be getting a little bit big for some of the rides:
But not the big wheel!
Good job Dad was elsewhere, it was swaying really well in the wind, he'd have hated it!
But he soon showed up to join us as the race finished quite early.
He's had a bit of an off on his second run but didn't seem to be any the worse for wear.
Until he got off the Razzle Dazzle, always a pleasure that one!
We're always amazed at how old the stuff is there, it's so cool that it's still kept running.
Yeah, even the music is authentic and comes from boxes and boxes of folded paper, punched with holes that get fed through the organ. How cool!
Monday
Interesting day for us at school today. all the St Barts kids had their induction day, leaving only us 9 behind. We had a pretty cool day doing some work on our Rhos project and a load of football!
And I got to paint a section of yet another ornamental horse our school seems to have aquired.
It was also a landmark day, the end of our non finger sucking for a month trial!
Yep, we did it. That was an easy £20, even if I did have to go to bed with my arms down by my side to help. So thats me finished with that, my finger nails look better already, recovering from years of sucking.
I might still have the occasional suck I reckon? Although everyone else thinks this is a bad idea. My manky old blanket has also been put away too,haven't snuggled that for a month either!
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