10th May Wednesday
I've d cided to take a rest from athletics at Team Kennet, so we go up on a wednesday to watch Ned. Well, we don't watch much of him as Mum and Dad make us go for a walk on Greenham Common. It was pretty cool this week though as there were a lot of mummy cows with their calves dotted about, they were soooo cute and I loved trying to pair up mother and child based on their looks. What I didn't like though, is having to pass too close to them, up close they are massive and quite scary!
It was amazing, so fast. Mum reckoned all she saw was sky, then ground! Ha ha, we knew Ned would be very proud of us.
11th Thursday
I helped Mum and Dad wash the cars after school. It's usally a bit of a fraught affair as Dad often doesn't appreciate my cleaning methods or free and easy approach to hoespipe use. This week though it went much better, a bit of understanding on both sides goes a long way I reckon:
12th Friday
Ned started football training for a club outside of school this week, this wreaked havoc with our tea schedule especially as he had a Rugby tournament in the afternoon too. I was quite happy about this though as I got to have a chicken and mushroom pot noodle and a toasted cheese wrap...perfect!
13th Saturday
Today was a big day, Ned's birthday outing to Thorpe Park.
He was bringing three friends, Kieran, Charlie and Harry. We were going to get them into the park and then let them go free for the daywhile Mum, Dad and I would have our own day out. Great idea, all I had to do was survive the journey with those super annoying boys......
In all honesty, they weren't too bad, maybe they had grown up a bit in the last year?
We arrived with perfect timing just before the park opened at 9:30 which was a surprise as we thought we were majorly early for 10:00 opening. We got in, wished the boys a good day and after a brief discussion headed for Nemesis. Being so early there was no queue to speak of and we walked straight on. It was brilliant, so brilliant we walked straight back round for another go. As we left the station the boys appeared in the queue so we gave them a wave as we moved off.
Next up the Flying Fish, a bit tame maybe but great fun, thenon to Swarm. Certainly not tame but totally brilliant, my new favourite I think. The ride layout was brilliant, like a disater zone, all crashed vehicles, planes and helicopters, wrecked buildings and all the rest of it. The start is amazing as it turns you upside down before the first drop!
We continued zig zagging around the park, taking in Rush (massive scary swing), Zodiac (enterprise wheel), the Vortex, Detonator (drop tower, made Dad squeal audibly), Dodgems (too many on the track but fast), the tea cups (we had the fastest spin of course), X, an indoor rollercoaster that promised much and didn't really deliver, storm surge (like riding in a paddling pool, half full of water, tricky to keep your feet dry) and then the biggest challenge of the day for both Mum and myself, Stealth.
Stealth involves sitting in the car, putting your head back against the headrest and then being launched at ridiculous speed (80mph in 2 seconds apparently) along the track and then up this:
We rounded the day out with a go on Samurai, which was quite frankly like being in a washing machine, attached to a merry go round or p something, brilliant fun!
We tried to get on Saw too, but the queue closed just before we got there...next time!
We met up with the boys back at the car, they were soaked but buzzing. I think they had a fun day. We had a bit of a car picnic before heading for home.
Now the real fun started, we were geading cross country through Aldermaston towards Kngsclere to drop a couple of the boys off when we came accross a dog, all on his own, in the road. Dad slowed down, put the hazards on and Mum got out to see if she could find his owner or see if there was a number we could call on his collar. There wasn't, she came back to the car and opened the door to talk to Dad and the dog jumped up into the passenger seat, sat himself down quite comfortably and looked out of the windscreento see where we were off to. This obviously caused mass hysteria to rest of the car passengers,which didn't phase our new friend one bit. He was a lovely dog, a bit greyhoundy, quite big with lovely soft pale brown fur. Mum tried ot encourgae him into the footwell but he wasnt having any of that and wouldn't budge so she had no choice but to share the seat with him, cuddled up all cosy. This caused the rest of us to up the levels of hilarity another couple of notches and we were in fits of laughter by now as we drove along, all 7 seats taken in the car and a dog in the front with Mum. We planned on dropping the Kingsclere boys off and then getting our new friend, who had been christened Alfie Weed by this point (no idea why) into the freed up boot space so we could comfortably take gim to the dogs trust place near home. Once we arrived at Charlies house though he was quite keen to see what we could do to get the situation dealt with and called his Mum (who was out with her friends for dinner), she suggested ringing the Police non emergency number which was a good call. Unfortunately he rang NHS direct instead, who weren't much use dealing with a lost dog. The police then managed to hang up on him which was also great. Through perseverance he eventually got a message through to council approved dog warden. He wasn't going to be able to pick Alfie up for at least 4 hours though! At this point, Charlies Dad said that he may as well stay with them until he was collected and got a spate dog bed for him and some food and drink. He was a little bit thin looking but wasn't intertested in the food. Reluctantly we left him there, despite both Ned and I desperatley pleading our case to keep him and made our way home to drop off Kieran.
This had made us rather late for our visit to Abi and Fayes to watch the Eurovision Song Contest!
14th Sunday
So latest update on Alfie the dog.....
He was picked up earlier than expected and was microchipped! He was apparently registered in Ireland so has one way or another come a long way. Lets hope no one claims him and we can win Mum and Dad round......
Had a bit of a quiet day today, Nate came round in the afternoon which was lovely. Still no sign of his little brother though.....
15th Monday
Helped Mum cleanthe trampoline off for the summer season.....brilliant, I love a good bounce!
Sadly, by the time we'd given it a good old scrub it was too wet to bounce on.....
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