Tuesday
Ive been made morning Door monitor, which means I get to bolt the doors closed when the bell goes...any latecomers get me to deal with!

We're doing an electricity project at the moment and have settled on doing one of those buzzer games betweem Tilly and I.  We have rather ambitously decided to make the 'course' an combination of our initials.

Thursday

I've got an enourmous appetite these days, mainly the good stuff, but I really ought to work on my cheese carving technique as it's giving me away too easily:

Friday

Ive decided to drop after school football.

So instead of that I took Mum and Dad into town by bike to buy myself a squashie.  It was cold.  Really cold.

In the evening i went to Friday club at the school.

I got the remainder of my friends phone numbers so now it's text message overload.  Add into that our whatsapp group and it ping ping ping!

Saturday

A load of pinging phone action and a spot of jigsaw helped to while away the day before the highlight of the whole weekend.....the return of Saturday Night Takeaway with Ant and Dec which we love.

Sunday

Neds football was cancelled so we went swimming to Oasis instead.  I was thrilled and loved it.  There was what looked like a school trip that turned up, they looked really odd as the boys trunks all matched as did the girls swimming costumes.  There seemed to be hundreds of them but we didnt have to wait long for the slides.

Monday

I went to town after school with Lily and Jess.  We had a brief trip around, i bought myself some more of that weird putty and put it to good use:

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Friday 9th
It was a cold and pretty bleak football session after school.  I did not enjoy having the ball kicked at me one little bit......
But it was the last day of this particular half term, so after a shower and a bit of faffing about we were off for a trip away.
Maybe a bit of an unlikely destination for us lot, we were heading North to Manchester!
The drive wasn't too bad, we had an in car buffet so we didn't need to stop and we were soon checking in to our hotel.  After a brief 'discussion' about bed sharing arrangements we were all happy and settled down to watch the Last Leg.


Saturday 10th
The Winter Olympics were on when we woke up, so we took in a little bit of that before making our way down to take in a big bit of breakfast.
We then attempted to walk it off with a day of shopping in the Trafford Centre.  The place was massive, and really quite fancy and impressive.  I think it would make a great place to actually live if we took all the shops out......
Well, we say shopping....we passed a few shops before we got to the Adventure Golf anyway.  First round of two, and it was great fun:

Dad narrowly won the first round, which was a shame.
Then it was on to the shops, we tried on some hats:

Some looked better than others:

Ned finally replaced his jacket, which we think he has had since Autumn 2014.  So he's got his money's worth out of that one.
I also got myself some new ripped jeans which were a proper ladies size 4.
But the shopping had to give way to more important pursuits, the second round of golf on the other course that Ned won this time.
Next up was something to eat in the massive food hall before the real highlight of the day.....the dodgems:

Although the track looked small the cars themselves were super fast and you could even skid them around the corners!
Then it was back to the hotel for a Saturday night TV session, bit of Olympics, bit of take me out.....ideal.

Sunday 11th
After another morning of Olympics as we woke up we had a bit of lay in before making our way down to breakfast:

Once we'd consumed out own body weight in pork goods and Nutella (which I discovered for the first time) and Mum and Dad destroyed the cereal dispensers, we packed up our things, checked out and headed even further north......to Bury.
Our target, Arcade Club, a place full of retro arcade games on free play.  It was a bit of mission to find it but we were soon in and climbing the any stairs up inside a converted old mill building, to be dazzled by the bright lights:

There were hundreds of machines, and although the graphics might not be up to todays standards, but they were a lot of fun to play, especially the ones where you could have more than one player:

As well as the normal machines, there were also loads of driving games and who doesn't love a bit of a dance?

There were also ones shoved into tables, how cool is that?

As the machines were all on free play it took a very long time for us to actually leave, the lure of one more go was very hard to resist....
We got home at a reasonable time, narrowly missing the snow that fell in the late afternoon.
We'd had a great weekend though, and it made a really nice change to be together for once and not argue (too much).


Monday 12th
One night in my own bed then it was off again for a sleepover with Darcey.  We had face packs and beauty treatments and Onesie wearing!

Tuesday 13th
Next day was Bowling and McDonalds, thanks Laura!
It was also pancake day, so I was looking forward to this one.  Dad had been warned by myself and Ned that we wanted PLENTY!!
He tripled the approved batter quantity and stood there flipping away for over an hour, there were well over 20 in this little pile:

And I made sure I ate my fair share:

I managed to pack away at least 8, mostly keeping them simple with lemon and sugar.
Mum only managed a pitiful 3.

Wednesday 14th
Unheard of scenes today when I involuntarily decided to do a bit of room tidying to punctuate my laptop youtube binge.

Thursday 15th
Link centre Trampoline park today once Dad was finished work.  We hadn't been with all four of us before so that was a good:

I nailed backflips from the foam pit diving board and then from the bouncy runway thing too.

Dad tried to kill mum by bouncing across four trampolines and missing a padded plinth before crashing headfirst into her stomach and as usual Ned got told off for bouncing up onto the high wall you're not allowed to go onto.

Friday 16th
We finally arranged a meal with Anne and Mike and also roped in Nate, Joel, Hayley and Alan too.  It was a lovely get together and I loved my belated Christmas present from Anne (a lovely warm gilet) which I wore home as Mum and Dad had insisted we walked.

Saturday 17th
Big old you tube day, not much more to add.

Sunday 18th
Ned was ill today, not like him at all. Our planned activities were scuppered then, we watched a 
Streetcat named Bob on DVD which we all loved (despite me claiming any scenes not featuring Bob himself were boring)

I took out skateboarding in the afternoon.  We hadn't been down Victoria Park in ages.  We skated about and played on the park like it was summer.....but a fair bit colder.

Monday 19th
Back to school after half term, nothing to report, it was just like we had never been away really!

Tuesday 18th

Well I spent a decent portion of the week trying to catch up on sleep and indeed food acter my Rhos trip.

I did manage gymnastics okay though.

Friday 19th

Well this one was a bit of a bolt from the blue, once we'd finished tea we went to london for the Lumiere London festival of light.  Basically a load of arty light themed stuff dotted about the city, Ned was overjoyed about coming along.
We parked up and go ton the underground to Leicester Square.  Dad had an app on his phone that had all the locations of the pieces and this seemed like a decent place to start. It was pretty bisu but the middle of the square was lit up by giant bulrushes, rabbits, badgers and a load of other countryside stuff.  It was pretty cool actually.  Next up were some 'flying' flamingos in China town that moved around the streets on poles carried by people (way better than it sounds) before we headed off covering some serious mileage, via Carnaby street, Piccadilly Circus (where the building being projected onto was somewhat diminished by the rather vulgar permanent advertising screens), and then up a very traffic free Regent Street:

The light up (and sound producing) see-saws were a massive hit:

Oxford Street took on a strange, otherworldly presence:

This light up bench was also rather brilliant, even if it didn't produce any detectable heat which I think Dad was hoping for:

We finished off at Westminster Abbey:

Even the side door was lit:

The lights went off at 10:30 so we headed back for the car and home.  I was glad I'd put my pelt in the back so Ned and I could share it for a nice warm snooze on the way home.

Saturday 20th:

We were supposed to be having Luca round for a good portion of the day, but that didn't pan out which was a big shame.

Mum and Dad went out for Auntie Trish's birthday in the evening so I got to hang out with Nate and Joel again!

Sunday 21st:

I needed new school shoes, new PE shoes and a new pair of shell toes (there was some dispute over whether I actually needed the shell toes or not) so we set out on a trip to Kingston upon Thames.

We had barely even got there when it was time for lunch...Greggs no less, we're proper classy.

I found some lovely PE trainers (mens, no pink bits) and eventually conceded that the forst pair of school shoes we'd seen in Bentalls even before our Greggs pitstop were pretty much unbeatable.

We rounded off our day with a browse of the toy section in Bentalls, although, maybe, just maybe I'm starting to get a little bit big for this sort of thing:

Sadly I didn't manage to get another pair of shell toes due to shoddy stock-keeping practices in one of the shops, they had one size 3.5 out on display but couldn't find the other one in the back room.

When we got home, Dad found some on the internet and we ordered those....

Monday 22nd

To make up for his Saturday no-show we had Luca round for tea.  He's great fun and we all enjoyed his company at the dinner table.

Thursday 25th

My new trainers arrived today, all the way from Germany:

Bling gold no less, Dad loves them, shame he's not a size 3.5.

Friday 26th

Film night had come round again, sadly it was Despicable Me 3 which all of year 6 had already seen at Rhos.  Oh well, good excuse to go and spend the evening with your friends anyway I suppose.

Saturday 27th

Nate and Joel's for the evening, for board games and pizza, and a bit of reading with Joel too who loved to try and wrestle the book out of Mum's grasp.

Sunday 29th

Ned's Football was in Andover today, and despite the weather it was the best one yet I reckon.  There was a really good park on  the field, a nice place for some skateboarding and a decent little shop too.  I did get a rather muddy bum, but wasn't as bad as one of the chaps who retrieved the stray match ball and slipped over into some really slimey mud.....

We spent the rest of the day painting the living room.  I got proper stuck in and was put in charge of painting the walls, first off with a brush around the skirting boards and door frames and then with a roller.

Monday 30th
Rushed home from school to get some more painting done, to tell the truth though I was getting a bit bored of it.....it doesn't allow the creative freedom i'm used to.

Friday 2nd February

We had our Rhos assembly today.  I was happy to see Mum and Dad come along and we enjoyed giving everyone a taste of our week away.  I also got to take them back to my classroom afterwards and show them some of my recent work.  I'm really proud of recent efforts so it was nice to show Mum and Dad.  They seemed really impressed.

Sunday 4th February

A monumental day today, I went to town with Lilly, pretty much unaccompanied.  We had a great time, had McDonalds for lunch, bought matching t-shirts and other cool stuff.