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Thursday

The Snow finally arrived.  It had been built up for days on the news and weather and it pretty much delivered as billed.  School wasn't shut today, so once we were finished for the day it was down to the park for snowballs.
I got a call from home to see if I fancied sledging over at Northcroft, of course I did.  We dragged Luca along too and made our way very carefully in the car to our side of the canal before completing our journey on foot to the hill.
It was pretty busy (with loads of people we knew) but we managed to find (mostly) clear lines to make our descents:

The light was starting to fade so we had to make the most of it:

It was pretty blowy and cold....

But great fun

We survived intact despite Luca and I crashing on a doubles run and made our way home to drop Luca off, I think he enjoyed himself:

Friday

School was......CLOSED!  Brilliant, this hadn't ever happened before I don't think?  Dad was off too but Mum got collected to go in and do the payroll run....she's important!
This is the first significant snow we've had in years.
I got on my friends group chat and sorted out a mass snowball fight down the park later in the morning.  It was great fun.  I met up with Lilly and Betsy and ended up having a sleepover with them at Betsy's.  That was an unexpected surprise.
We had a good night and weren't even that late to bed really.....

Saturday

Cinema first thing to see Ferdinand.  There was still quite a bit of snow about as I got picked up from Betsy's.  Ned was along too, under protest so it was a family trip out.  I loved the film, loved it!  Even if we were the oldest kids in there by quite a margin.
We stopped off at the bakery on the way home for lunch, the cheese straws were good, nearly as good as mine!
Bit of a quiet afternoon, with great anticipation for that evenings instalment of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.  My favourite show ever.

Sunday

With football cancelled due to the weather it was another family trip out to the Beach in West Wittering.  The snow had vanished almost entirely and the sun was doing it's best to break through the clouds so it was nice to get outside for the day.
We started off with lunch.  Great idea.  We had what Dad christened English Tapas, separates form the breakfast menu, hash browns, sausages, fried bread (for Ned) and garlic bread (for me)  while Mum and Dad had boring proper meals.
Pudding though was a whole next level:

We did share it.....ha ha

We had a browse around the surf shop then headed down too the beach for a game of Boules (with the tide right in which wasn't ideal), and had a game of dodge the incoming waves on a very steep and pebbly bank which was fun.

And we stood on some pillars:

And some more pillars:

And some pillars with an arty backdrop:

Monday

So despite not attending cross country club after school, I got a letter to say I'd been picked for the schools area cross country!  I've requested Dad take me out on some training runs, he's allowed to ride his bike though and I'm proper excited.  It's an afternoon out with my friends instead of school.