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Tuesday

We're giving Sasha a lift home after gymnastics at the moment, it's reat funin the car listening to Radio 3 on the way back.

Wednesday

We had a visit from the Sealed Not at school to tie in with our current civil war topic.  It was really good, we got to handle spears and a load of other weapons.

Ned was playing rugby for the school up at Newbury Rugby club so we went up to watch for a bit.  It was a horrible afternoon, sideways rain and windy.  Their performance was every bit as unpleasant when they played their first game too.  They did pick it up a bit for their second game though but mum and I had to leave before the end of the game to get me to Team Kennet in time.

Ned gave it a miss in favour of a much needed shower and a hot meal.

Thursday

Bonfire night, and the school had it on the day of the 5th rather than the weekend.  The weather was pretty wet so the field was a bit on the boggy side.  Mr Jones had once again done the business with a lovely roaring bonfire:

In a surprise addidtion to proceedings there was also a fire act, involving a couple of blokes (a pupils dad) doing some fire juggling, some fire skipping and some fire breathing which was all very entertaining.  I wasn't quite so keenon the bit of the act that involved setting fire to a very cute and cuddly teddy bear.

The fireworks themselves were up the usual high standard and we thoroughly enjoyed watching them.

Friday

We went Abi and Fayes for the evening.  The highlight was of course Holly the Hamster.  Seriously cute but a bit too skittish and fast for me to be totally comfortable cuddling her.  I loved watching her run around the house in her ball.

Saturday

We went to watch Ned play rugby in Reading inthe morning, it was chucking it down and seriously windy.  So much so it turned both of our umbrellas inside out.  They played a lot better than last time, Ned seemed up for it and we were thrilled when he scored his first try.  Sadly they did lose narrowly.  Here's me and Panda trying to use dad as a shield from the wet weather:

And here's the mucky little urchin himself.  He was really muddy but the rain was sufficient to wash most of it off again:

I had an invite to go round Sashas and play for the afternoon and stay for tea.  It was brilliant once we'd barricaded ourselves in her room away from her brothers and their friends.

Sunday

Up reasonably early to go and watch Minions at the cinema.  I really loved it, Ned liked it too but both Mum and Dad thought it was a bit pants apparently.

Next on the agenda was a shopping trip to sort Mum out with some jumpers to keep her warm at work over the winter.  Now our love of shopping is well known, but we were really going to try and keep this one on track.  It started off well enough with a very pleasant lunch in the M & S cafe but things went downhill very rapidly once the actual shopping started.  I don't really want to go into too much detail about what happened but we were marched back to the car and had a very quiet drive home indeed.  Oh dear, I hope Mum doesn't freeze.......

Monday

Glow stick dance week!  Mum hadn't seen one of these before and thought it was brilliant.  She was really quite taken by it all actually.  

As part of the fallout from the shopping trip debacle we were banned from telly and Ipads dor a week......A WEEK!!!!!!  So while Ned has been burying himself in homework to break the tedium I have been resorting to something a bit more creative and made this lego man collage from my Lego magazine that plopped through the door (well, I used Mums actually as she gets one posted to her too for some reason):