Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Wednesday
Balls club after school, we did rounders and a good number of the younger ones had great difficulty in the concept of not running people out.....oh dear.  Poor old Mr Swan was struggling a bit and ultimatley gave up on explaining.

Friday
Well we recently had the photographer in to school, as well as the standard class photo, we had a whole year photo.....and one for each of the sports teams we've been involved in.  So I had a right envelope full, of course I wanted to order all of them.  Apparently this was going to total £60.........
Quad kids training continued after school, seemed to go okay if not brilliantly.
Friday club in the evening too, not a bad way to start the long weekend.

Saturday
A slow start to the day today, nice lay in to begin with.  Then a message from Lola to see if I wanted to go out with them to a Park in Basingstoke...of course I did.
We had a lovely time in the sunshine, had an ice cream, went on a pedalo:

We were home late afternoon, so i went out into the garden to practice my hand springs which are coming along quite nicely.
It was uncle Slims party in the evening, he has reached the grand old age of 60!  It was at his favourite pub, The Catherine Wheel which was a new one for us.  Mum and I obviously looked splendid:

We loved the old photos of the birthday boy dotted about and the chocolates on the tables:

There were so many familiar faces out it was brilliant to catch up with everyone and we even got a family picture taken:

We stayed out really rather late, enjoying and excellent buffet before I had a lovely hug with the birthday boy and we left them to it.

Sunday
I had a day with Mum as Dad went off bike racing which none of us were at all interested in.  We did a bit of gardening which was better than it sounds, so nice to be outside.
We did all reconvene mid afternoon and went to Abi and Fayes for a barbecue. It was fun playing in their garden and the cricket was good too, it did sort of morph into a stump battle but no one got seriously injured.
We also played Mario Kart on the Switch which was cool:

Monday
So it was pretty much the hottest day of the year and it's decided that we go on a Bike ride. What genius came up with that?  Still, we packed a picnic, loaded the car and drove to a village called Upton.  There was a nice park there with a lovely shady spot under the trees and best of all there was no one else there, despite it being a nice sunny bank holiday.  We set up the picnic blanket, put the radio on and munched our way through a decent picnic, interspersed with quick trips to the park apparatus and a few laps on the slightly tired pumptrack.

The mission was to ride to Didcot, about three miles away on a disused railway line:

It was a pleasant ride, despite Ned's best efforts to cut me up and be a nuisance the whole time of course.

Despite a bit of a wrong turn we made it easily and set about finding somewhere selling ice creams, ending up in Sainsbury's and having to buy two 3 packs of Solero's, meaning Dad and Ned got to double up.

We made our way back and collapsed in the shade while our butler loaded the bikes back onto the car:

No one felt much like cooking when we got home so it was a trip to the Spoons instead, no complaints from me on that front.