Tuesday
So back from holiday and with a thousand odd Whatsapp messages it was a minor miracle that I managed to pick out the meaningful efforts to arrange a get together down the park today with Amber and Jess.
Wednesday
More old school friend catchups today, a morning with Sasha. We did hair styling (the hours put in on the head dummy have really paid off), a bit of makeup and all the rest of it but the real highlight was the perfume making. You chose certain components based on aspects of your personality to give you your unique fragrance. Sasha's smelt really nice, mine ended up not being quite so pleasant (a bit like a cleaning product actually) but it was a lot of fun.
Thursday
With Hayley laid up for bit, Alan was flying solo with the boys so he got us out for a picnic in Victoria park (three Colin the Caterpillars for pudding). It was great fun, I took Nate up the big tower slide without Alan for the first time and introduced them to the sheer joy of using the mini ramp as a slide.Park picnic
We also made ourselves ridiculously dizzy on the roundabout which Joel was very reluctant to get off of:
After we were done playing I went to pick up my Park House PE kit, now fully emblazoned with my initials. How exciting, looks really cool on too.
Friday
Alan bought the boys around in the afternoon, perfect excuse to get some of the long forgotten toys out of the conservatory. Hex bugs and the rev-up motorbikes were a massive hit.
Basingstoke for a shopping trip with Mum and Dad. Got some more bits and bobs for school, four t-shirts and a huge strawberry squashie.
In the evening it was out with the Halfords for a curry and then back to their house to watch the KSI vs Logan Paul boxing match with a load of Max's friends which was pretty good, even if six sounds was a bit of a long time to watch for me. We all thought KSI was robbed.
Sunday
A wet bank holiday Sunday, what to do? Well Ned went to watch Fulham with Andy (They beat Burnley 4-2 so they were happy). How about another outing with Alan and the boys? yeah, why not! First we tried the Aquadrome in Basingstoke which turned out to be a total waste of time. All the good stuff was closed for some reason leaving only the boring square pool and one slide operational. Not worth the bother then. JJ's is nearby and despite Nate declaring that he didn't like soft play we went there. I reckon he actually does like soft play:
And so did Joel once he had warmed up as long as Alan wasn't too far away.
We hadn't been for a while so I really rather enjoyed it even if the slides weren't running as fast I might have liked.
Andy and Ned got home just in time for a roast dinner.
Monday
Todays activity, forced family bank holiday fun, whatever you ant to call it was a bike ride.
Actually there wasn't any real resistance from either of us so that was good, we were ready reasonably early too which was something of a minor miracle.
The Meon Valley trail was our route for the day, once again a disused railway line and a rather ambitious 10 miles there and 10 miles back between West Meon and Wickham.
We'd probably done about a mile before I started asking if we could have our picnic, I had to wait another 4 miles before we did finally have it.
It was quite a densely wooded route so there wasn't much in the way of views along the way. There was a few nice river sections though:
And some dramatic looking fallen trees which I always find interesting:
We made it to Wickham, there wasn't much there, the highlight for us girls at least was the toilet!
Then it was time for the long trek back:
The last five miles were certainly the hardest, there were some tired legs and some sore bottoms for sure:
So that was that, certainly our longest ride to date at 20 miles, it pretty much felt slightly up hill all the way there and indeed all the way back but it was nice to get out for the day.
I'd worked up quite an appetite that's for sure, I was still owed a 'treat' for my glowing final school report so I called it in. Three double cheeseburgers from McDonalds. Lovely, I managed them all too.
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