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Friday

I was awarded my Orange badge for house points at school, i'd already got my red one a little while back.

Saturday

Shopping trip today, with Mum and Dad to amazingstoke.  

It didn't get off to the best of starts when we parked for the park and ride.  I declared that I felt sick just as we puuled into a space....no one took much notice.  I got out of the car and I almost immediately puked on the road.  That was a bit of surprise to everyone, despite my warning.  I felt better straight away and we still managed to get on the waiting park and ride bus in time.

The mission agenda, to get me some more stuff for Rhos and to get Mum a dress for her work christmas party.  Despite my best efforts to hijack the trip for far more exciting things we remained on track.  I got some lovely warm legging things though.  Mum on the other hand went wild and bought two dresses and a top....how did that happen?   We had a lovely day though, it was all very Christmassy and a Greggs for lunch too.

Sunday

So Ned didn't have football today, family day out then.  After a near miss when London was mentioned we went to the beach instead, a walk out to Hurst Castle.  It was on the end of a big old gravel spit out into the sea so we had a bit of a walk.

It was a steep slope down to the water, making chasing the waves in and out a rather perilous game:

There wer also loads of Portugese Men of War washed up:

Weird looking things they were too, and apparently they can still sting even when they are washed up and dead.

We carried on until we got to the castle itself, right on the end of the spit.  It was really cool with plenty of oppurtunities for climbing and exploring:

As well as a few photo oppurtunities:

The most exciting bit was where the path narrowed, so much that it was completely flooded when the waves surged in.  After careful consideration and sending Ned as our test pilot we decided it was game on and made a break for it.  We all got across safely, with only mum getting a slighty damp shoe.

We got back to the car just as it got dark, cold and wind battered. We were certainly glad that Dad had packed a flask of hot chocolate to help revive us.

Monday

More tests at school, we seem to be on a right missionat the moment.

We had a Football match after school, against Fir Tree.  Depsite us losing 3-0 we actually played quite score didn't do us justice really.  I really enjoyed it too, despite it being cold and pretty much dark by the time we finished.