Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday

Should have mentioned this last week but in the last week of term we'd made mum a rather large thank you card for her efforts hot seating this year:

She was really pleased with it, well, except for the hair colour...ahem.  Anyway, she's been brilliant with us all this year and I'm certain she's made a real difference....her particular style of encouragement, tips and tricks has lead to a number of my classmates progressing further with their times tables than they otherwise would have I'm certain.  Far from being a total cringe, it's been really nice to have her in school.
Anyway, it's well and truly the holidays now so there's no talk of times tables required thank you very much.
I spent the day with Auntie Christine today.  We made honeycomb....it was like magic, science and cookery all in one go...my kind of fun!
Then we had a lovely lunch by the canal too:

Wednesday

Mum off today, weather a bit bleak.....board games day.  Game of life being our particular favourite.  In the afternoon it was a hastily scheduled sleepover at Sasha's house....cool.  Neither of us bothered attempting to ruin our hair this time much to everyone's relief!

Thursday

I came home from Sasha's after breakfast and then........KD Gymnastics day club.  More bar work as well as some fun and games too.

Friday

Dad off today, I'd been pestering him to go to Knightwood for months.....so that was today sorted:

Ned was on fine form, he had a couple of unbelievably brilliant escapes from what would have ended in disaster for lesser beings and was riding really well:

Lunch in Asda, Panini not to my liking this year (although Ned said they were better):

I made up for it with two delicious chocolate eclairs from the bakery though.  We also bought Mum this bunch of lovely, natural looking flowers:

Saturday

We had an early morning(ish) trip to the cinema to watch A Dogs Purpose.  Even Ned came along.  The film was brilliant, it was sad, it was happy, it was horrible it was lovely.  I think we all really enjoyed it, some of us even 'got something in our eyes'.....

The weather was seriously wet so we didn't do much other than go to Sainsbury's for a slush puppy, my pink tongue was no match for Mum's blue one (sadly we don't have a picture of that):

Sunday

We had spotted the briefest respite in the gloomy rain and headed off to the coast at Southbourne with a picnic and Andy.

It was a bit blowy, but the sun did peep out now and again:

We didn't much fancy going in the sea, although Dad and Andy seemed to enjoy the big waves that were dumping onto the shore.

We made use of a half buried football for vaulting:

And a game of boules that we had to handicap mum for as she just kept on winning.  Her playing left handed seemed to even things up a bit.

We walked up from Boscombe to Bournemouth for an ice cream, well, skateboarded mostly and then came home.

Monday

Mum off again today, so catering standards are very high, breakfast anyone?

We had a trip out to pick some blackberries with Darcey and Auntie Christine...even Ned came along!

We got a right old tubful of them.  Not sure what we'll do with them all.....