Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Wednesday

Team kennet was hard work with my painfull heel this week. I pushed on, but did sit out the running session.

Thursday

Exciting news today, I was picked to play for the school football team to play at a tournament on Monday up at Park House.  It was a bit out of the blue to be honest, I don't play a lot of football and don't even go to football club.  I was so looking forward to it, even though my heel was so bad I was walking with quite a limp after school.

Friday

I had a doctors appointment straight after school to see if we could get my heel sorted out. The doctor did a number of checks to see what was going on and once he was satisfied that there were no real developmental issues he diagnosed a case of policemans foot.  Never Heard of it, but i've been given thousands of tablets to take.  That raised a few eyebrows, first off from the doctor who wad amazed that I wouldn't rather have medicine.  Secondly the pharmacist, who was also shocked that I had been prescribed tablets rather than medicine.  Thing is, the last lot of kids medicine I had was utterly revolting and swallowing tablets is easy peasy.

When we got home Ned's friend Kieran was round and they were playing Fifa, just for a change.

Saturday

Back to our default Saturday entertainment, Waitrose in the morning for bread rolls and the cheesecake is back!

Lazy afternoon and then rollerskating.  Ned's mate Robert came along, he was a first timer but we got got him going really well and by the end he was even brave enough to join in with the hockey match.  Sasha was there too on her new christmas rollerblades, we had a great time.

Sunday

Continuing our weeken low on inspiration we headed to Ikea in Southampton.  Exciting eh?  It was stupidly busy on the roads as we got closer so we made do with parking in a nearby retail park rather than the Ikea carpark, which was a shame as their car park has a brilliant curly access ramp and pretty good views from the top level.  We even had a carpark picnic to eat.....which turned out to be quite exciting due to a rather amazing hailstorm.  It threw it down so hard the car windscreen was completely cover in hail and the carpark itself looked like it had been snowing!

We actually quite liked wandering around the shop, exploring.  As usual we bought a load of atuff we didn't want or need (£7 of fancy coloured corrugated cardboard anyone?)

We did achieve our mission objective though and got a bookcase to hold our expanding board game collection.  Dad put it together and we loved filling it up.

I also did a load of rapid homework, finishing it off way before bedtime, proving Mum wrong.

Monday

The day of the Football tournament had finally arrived.  We got issued our kit at lunchtime, I loved putting it on, with Ned's borrowed shinpads.  I got picked up from school and we made our way up to Park House.  We met on the astro pitch, I soon noticed I was in fact the only girl on any of the competing teams:

It was pretty cold, and wet, but we weren't bothered.  Ned and Ella were up there to watch and Ella's brother was going to be refereeing the games too, how cool.
We took them for a warm up, did some stretches, a lap around the perimeter to size up the other teams and then some passing and shooting practice.

We played four matches against Calcot, Francis Bailey, Falkland and Woolhampton:

It didn't really help that three of these teams all played in red kits so it wasn't always clear who we were playing.  Anyway, the first game was a bit of a shock to the system it must be said, I was a defender but having not really played much organised football I was at a bit of a loss as to what I was supposed to be doing.  I got some 'encouragement' from the sidelines and started to get a bit more stuck in. Over the course of the four games I got more and more stuck in and for the last game, a hard fought affair against Francis Bailey I actually even impressed Ned.  We ended up with one win, two draws and loss I think.  But all the games were close with no more than a goal in it.

They did well for their first match, more impressively they were really nice to each other, something most of the teams I play for could learn from.

I was buzzing.....and pretty cold and wet.  We went home and had a lovely spaghetti for tea....perfect!