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Tuesday

Into the last week of the holidays and the weather is still glorious!  So on another Aunties day itwould have been rude not to go to the pool again:

Darcey came along too, although Ned couldn't be othered to join us.  We had a great time, especially diving in with Auntie Trish, I eas very impressed with her dives.

Wednesday

Bit of a weird one today, Mum had us for the early morning then Dad had a 'half day'.  We dropped Mum off at work and then went to the Wokingham Family Golf centre.  It was a pretty cool set up, I really liked the look of the mini golf with it's dinosaur themed holes.  Sadly though we played football go, after I gave in to Ned.....again.

It was actually pretty good fun actually, even though it was quite hard to malke the ball stop on the green.  I certainly enjoyed it more than Ned to begin with, he had a torrid time of it to be fair.

I was pretty disappointed with my tee shots despite my i oressive looking run ups:

Dad won, despite being the worse football player out of all of us.  The big news though....I beat Ned!! Better not speak about that, ahem.  

We had a Tesco car park picnic which we haven't had for a while then we made it back jst in time to pick Mum up from work.

Team kennet again in the evening, still low on numbers this week......

Thursday

Mum off today, we had no agenda so just enjoyed hanging out in the garden, having a chat, eating a leisurely lunch....all very civilsed.

Once Dad was home we sorted out a picnic and headed for the river in Hungerford: 

It didn't take long before we went for a paddle and played on the swing:

We had it all to ourselves and stayed until the sun went down behind the trees.

Friday

As is traditional, last day of the holidays, Dad was off with us.  We went ice skating at the link centre in Swindon, so a new venue for us.  It was really good, hardly anyone there and the ice was in good condition too (ha ha we're such professionals).  We hit the rink with real conviction, no side holding or anything, proper straight out on the ice skating.  We loved it:

We lasted the whole two hour session with only a few minor falls on my part, a great sucess then!

We came back to Newbury, picked Mum up from work and went to Pizza Hut for the lunchtime buffet. Brilliant stuff, even though it was pretty busy and we had a short wait for a table.

Saturday

Mum and I played Wii while Dad spent some quality time with my bike, trying to reverse the affects of the salt air on the transmission that it was exposed to in Cornwall on holiday.

Ever since my 'thinking putty incident' i've been keen to get some real blue mascarra and finally ground Mum down enough to take me into town to get some:

First application wasvery promising!

It was the very welcome return of roller skating this week, in full disco mode too with flashing lights, lasers and glow sticks.  It as good to meet up with Lola, and Abbie and Faye turned up too! Dad fell over twice and blamed the wet floor from a spilled drink and the other one on me pushing him!  

Sunday

So last day before I went back to school, i'm almost, sort of, looking forward to it, in a way.

We tried to forget about it by going to Cotswold Wildlife Park for the day.  The rest of us hadn't been for a while although Ned went for a school trip not long ago.  It's a lovely walk round and theres a new playground whch was epic.  Early highlights included a very athletic lizard climbing display and a very noisy gibbon.  Lunch wasn't far off of course, but there was a bit of a problem as we had managed to forget Ned's bag of rolls.  He's quite specific in his demands so couldn't be tempted with pinching one from everyone else and had to make do with a cone of chips from the cafe! Oh what a hardship.

There was a birds of prey display on the lawn, we got a ringside vantage point and had to duck several times as a very speedy Falcon swooped over our heads, it was brilliant.  Afterwards you could handle a few of the birds.  This owl was only 10 weeks old and had already been trained to perform in the earlier show:

But this rather magnficent Eagle was a whole lot bigger:

We carried on around the park, when we stumbled across some goats in need of some loving:

We loved watching a couple of young Lemurs having a tussle in the walkthrough and as ever, stood expectantly watching the penguins, hoping that one of them would dive into the pool.  They didn't.

We arrived at the giraffe house just as the keeper filled up their feed bin thingy, so got to see one really close up:

We caught a cheeky glimpse ofthe usually very reclusive leopards which was a first for us before the real highlight of the day, two baby lions?  Cute overload.

Monday

Back to school day.....I looked very smart as I left dspite still having last years shoes (don't look at the soles).  So I'm now in year 5, upper school, which means it's only two years until big school.  I have a new teacher, Mr. Toal so we'll have to wait and see how thst works out......my forst day went okay though!