Tuesday

We were both up early today, no particular reason for it.

Nope, none at all. I was happy my scab had dried up though and I wasn't stuck to my duvet or anything grim like that.

I had to do my reading test at school, we've all done an individual one, I didn't struggle with it really so I reckon i've done okay.

After school I told Dad I really didn't want to go to gymnastics on account of my scabby knee feeling a bit stiff.  He reluctantly relented, so I don't think he was too impressed when I skipped off to the adventure playground to play with my friends.......

We had a netball match against St Nicholas school, down at their place.  It was brilliant and we loved it, no doubt our 7-0 victory helped!

When we went to pick Ned up we bumped into Auntie Gail who was off to the dentist.  She had my birthday present in her car that she had been trying to deliver to us for ages (but kept missing us). Hope your appointment went well and thanks for the present.

We were a bit early to pick Mum up so we had a wander around town, i bought some football stickers.

And I got one of those animal rubbers from Temptations, a panda one, with some of my birthday money.

Wednesday

I woke up feeling a bit poorly.  Headache, sore throat, generally a bit meh.  I made it to school but by lunchtime I was feeling a lot worse ans school phoned Dad to come and get me.  He took his flipping time, but I suppose he was on the bike.  We spent the. Afternoon watching kids TV and snuggling up on the sofa.

While all this slacking off was going on, I had to redo my reading test at school.  My original attempt hadn't gone at all well, in fact I apparently got ablower score than when I did it last year....oh dear, obviously something wasn't right first time round.

After school I had my first session at Mr Gilhams football club, it was wicked.

Thursday

Well I was off again, which meant Mum in the morning then Dad in the afternoon.

Mufed me up well with one of her luxury cheese toasties for lunch.

For after school dance club we had Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys.  We were allowed to wear 'beach clothes' too.  I decided to ignore dads suggestion of wearing my wetsuit and plumped for a far more sensible swimming hat and goggles to go with my shorts and t-shirt.. I really went for it and loved every minute.

I knew a load of my classmates were headed down the park after school,so as soon as i'd got rid of my hat and goggles and picked up my bike I headed down there to see if they were still there...they were!  We stayed down there for ages, Louise, Dylan, Rebecca and Tilly were all there.  I ended up getting invited to Tilly's for tea with them all, we stopped off to tell Dad on the way past.

Which meant I got Ned's helping of sausage and mash at tea time!

Friday

Well after two days off school I was raring to get back! I convinced Mum I was good to go, even though she thought she'd be getting a phone call to come and get me by mid morning.  No chance, I stuck it out to the end of the day no problem!

We had an early tea, before Mum came home....

.....which we found most peculiar, even if it was for a good reason.

Yes, it was camping time!

A new venue as well, with Croyde being fully booked for a surfing festival and south Wales having zero waves forecast for the weekend we were off to Weymouth, Littlesea holiday park to be precise.

Indeed we were, I helped Dad load the car up, well a little bit, but I gave in to the lure of the telly pretty quick.

We went to get Mum from work, got her changed, then went to pick Andy up (he's very helpful when setting up the tent and all that) before we hit the road.

It's a good deal closer than Devon so we made good time and were very soon there, despite a rather lengthy and eventful toilet stop. (Big queue, no toilet roll, you get the picture).

We were like a well oiled machine setting all our kit up, well, we were once Dad had considered at some length exactly where tp pitch the tent on our pitch.

To be fair, he did a good job, not we'd ever let him know of course.

I made friends pretty much immediately with a girl a couple of pitches up, they had a caravan, and a dog.

It had been a long day, and the sleeping quarters were looking super cosy.....

Saturday

We were awoken by bright sunshine coming in to our bedroom, it was lovely and warm and quiet outside.

Until the sound of our bacon sizzling filled the air.

Once that was done it was time to hit the pool, the main reason we booked the campsite.

And as I was rather late getting dressed, Mum made me go in my onesie.

Although it wasn't quite as big as it looked on the internet, it was a rather lovely pool.

Indeed it was, Mum had made a picnic so we stayed until the afternoon, swimmng, lounging about then more swimming.

There was an indoor pool to explore too.

Andy decided he wanted a coffee, and offered hot chocolates...we can't refuse one of those, even in hot sunshine.

Sadly I had a nightmare with mine though.  Cup one I dropped trying to take the plastic cap off the top of the cup.  Cup two slipped out of my fingers halfway through the arcade.  It was third time lucky though and I managed to finally get a drink back to my sunlounger. 

Dad and I shot some hoops, my netball training certainly paid off, I whooped him:

Then we had a session on the Playground:

About mid afternoon we took a trip out, we made our way to the Isle of Portland and stopped at the top of the hill, overlooking Chesil beach:

It was where the sailing was held during the 2012 Olympics, hence the landmark:

Just over the road was Tout quarry, which we didn't know exisited:

It was pretty cool though, an old disused quarry from the 1700's thats been left to nature and the work of sculptors.

We had a great time wandering around, exploring and finding hidden sculptures in the stone:

Some of them were very interactive:

We carried on to Portland Bill lighthouse, right down on the point before making our way back to site.

Where I got re-aquainted with my friend.

I played shut the box.

And Dad sorted out the barbecue for tea.

Which culminated in a near riot over the Chorizo!!!!  Bring two next time Dad....

We had a few games of Jungle Speed alfresco before I turned in for the night.

While I stayed up a bit longer for a game of nommies, making the most of the longest day of the year.

Sunday

Another sun soaked wake up for us.

Yeah, but we had to get up and start packing up our stuff.

It didn't take too long, even though we had to unpack the tent again when we heard a trapped insect buzzing inside it....we thought it was a bee and it ought to be released, even if Dad didn't.

We said our goodbyes to our friends in the caravan and made our way back to the pool again.

We spent the morning there again before heading into Weymouth town centre for lunch.

We found a Pub and enjoyed a lovely meal before heading off to the seafront to see what was what.

We had to give pussing a miss as the food wait was an hour by the time we left.....not good.

It was brilliant, there was loads of lovely sand, loads of people about, and loads to do.

First off the swing boats:

And then the most excellent thing of all, donkey rides!  I was so excited about this, especially when Ellis and I got assigned the biggest beasts on the beach!

Oh yeah, it was brilliant, they were soooooo cute too:

There was a couple of sand sculptures that were seriously impressive.

And certainly inspiration for our Cornwall creations!

There was also a display of old military vehicles on the beach too, we loved them, especially the ones with massive guns mounted on them.

On our way back to the car we went back to the pub for a late pudding and a nice cold drink.

Which pleased me no end, cookie dough cheesecake!!!!

We made our way back to the car for a nice snooze on the way home......

Monday

After such a cool weekend we were a bit sleepy, but not too bad really.

Last thing in the afternoon we had an assembly by the year 6's on our Rhos y Gwaliau residential trip early next year.  It looks awesome, a whole week away doing cool outdoorsy sort of stuff, I can't wait!

I had dancing after school, but line dancing to achey breaky heart really didn't do it for me! 

Riding my bike home did though, still loving it, with my weepy scab just a small memeory.

I had a big old homework binge when I got home, Maths, literacy and even a bit of reading too, it felt good to have got it all out of the way afterwards thats for sure.

Tuesday

Here's some of my art, a portait of my skateboarding dog:

Wednesday

As usual we had a deep and meaninful conversation around the dinner table, we got onto Jesus.

Mum said one of 'friends dobbed him in'. I corrected her, pointing out he was actually 'Betrayed by a disciple'. Every now and then it is like i've swallowed a dictionary.

I'm still ploughing through the sweets I won at the school fete, it's a tough job.

I came home from school with a rather red and swollen bridge of my nose.  I was just about to score when one of my 'friends' pulled the goal post over, it came down and the crossbar hit me right across the face.  It hurt.  A lot.

Thursday

After school dance club was cancelled, so instead we went out for a bike ride with Dad.

We did, it was dead exciting as I got to take my new bike out on a proper ride for the first time:

We headed out towards the countryside from home, the poppies in the fields looked like a lovely red blanket:

We went miles, I got on really well with my new bike, even if the gears are still a bit of a mystery to me.

I've got to say it, she did really well.

Except for a brief brush with some stinging nettles.

We made it all the way out to the bridge over the A34.

The traffic thundered by underneath us.

We got plenty of toots and waves, especially from the lorry drivers!

We made our way back home in time to go and get mum from work.

After tea I did a little gardening with Mum, but got bored of it almost instantly, just like Dad does.  The new pegs mum had got were much more fun:

Finally the world cup started today, how exciting!  We got to watch the opening ceremony and a little bit of the first game at least.

Friday

Well it was yet another sunny day, we could get used to this.

Fired up by the world cup, we played football all afternoon at school, I was pretty hot and sweaty when I came home.

You would have though he would have been footballed out wouldn't you?  But no, it was Fifa on the Xbox as soon as he got in from school.  Still, at least that means I get the run of the telly.

We had tea (our new family favourite, Chorizo, chicken and potato bake) and the Mum declared it was far too nice an evening to do nothing.

So after a few suggestions we decided to ride down to the canal with some old bread we had hanging about to feed to the ducks.

Yes, what a brilliant idea.

Mum's bike is brilliant, it's got a big sturdy basket, we put the bread in it, a few drinks and a string of loom bands!

I was so happy I almost burst, i'd been wanting to go out for a family bike ride for years now.

We fed some hungry birds and some lovely little fluffy baby moorhens before moving on, up over the bridge to Northcroft.

We swerved the park though and headed for the top of the hill instead.

I wanted to zoom down again!

But we had a few laps of the weird track thing first.

I loved it, I could actually make it up and over the biggest of jumps with my new bike with ease.

We rode home through town which felt really exciting.

And made our way to the city playground for a bit of a play.

Yeah, it was prety cool, there's some new bits and bobs there.

The monkey bars which had me beat for years were really easy now!

Saturday

Quad kids competition time. 

I wasn't looking forward to being dragged along until Dad reminded me Ella would be there.

I certainly was looking forward to it, Robert was in the team this year too, brilliant:

My first event was the 600 metres. It's fair to say it isn't my favourite, but I was determined to put in a good performance.  I just about kept in with the main pack all the way until the last straight where i'd kep just enough back to put in an impressive sprint finish that no one really had an answer for and made up a load of places:

The 75m sprint was next, I did okay at that too.

I did really well at lounging around eating ice lollies in the sunshine!

Vortex next, my specialist subject, but like last year I didn't quite do as well as i'd hoped I would.  You get two measured throws, the first one was okay but nowhere near what i'd managed during training and the second one went outside the measuring area.  Whoops, there's always next year I suppose.

At this point I got to finally escape to go and play with my friend Amy at her house.  We had a great time, I stayed for tea and everything.

The last sporting event was the standing long jump which went pretty well.

Being a year 5 and 6 combined team event we were never going to bother the top spots (we had no year 6's taking part) but we did win loudest team of the day by a landslide: 

Once we were all home Ned took me down the shop to buy some sweets.

I am good to my sister you know.

I bought some bubblegum and finally managed to blow my first bubble!

I tried over and over again and just couldn't do it, despite lengthy coaching.  Not happy.

Sunday

Fathers day, and seeing as we ended up having a blazing row over who would give what present to Dad and then things going from bad to worse I think it's fair to say it wasn't quite the lovely day we'd envisaged for him.

No, it didn't go too well really, I think we'll leave it at that, but I will say that seeing as our planned trip out for the day was called off, he did actually get to do what he was no doubt happiest doing.  Watching the Mountain bike world cup downhill race live from Austria on the Ipad with his headphones in, ignoring our carping and whineing.

We took pity on Mum in the end who really wanted to go out for a bit.

So we had a walk at Donnington castle, a little game of hide and seek and some rope swing action in the woods nearby.  

Not bad then, really.

Monday

Having racked up the miles on my new bike last week you would have thought I had the measure of it really wouldn't you? Sadly not, I had a big off on the way home from after school dance club and did a rather good job of removing all the skin from my knee.  I was borderline hysterical by the time we got home, all the while Dad was telling me it wasn't that bad.  By the time he got to try and clean me up he had to concede that in actual fact, it wasn't that great after all.  His bedside manner isn't that good to be honest and after a few harsh swipes of the cleaning wipe we decided it was too big for any of our plasters, so he taped a dressing (badly) to my leg in a bid to catch the worst of the drips and ooze.  You can tell Mum is the trained first aider round here for sure.

We had a roast for tea, and after Mum's recent request for more varied veg, we had red cabbage with apple bits in it and leeks!  Well, what on earth is that all about? 

Exactly, it was a step too far for us and both items were roundly rejected!

I made my way to bed, hoping my oozy knee wouldn't stick to the bedclothes after it was uncovered to 'let the air get to it'.........

Tuesday

Well it had finally arrived, my birthday at last.  I'd been counting down since Ned's in April.

I got up early enough so I could open my presents before Dad went to work.  I thought that was very good of me.  I had some cool stuff too, as well as the new trainers i'd bought myself back in Cornwall at Easter (yes they really did make me wait for them) I had some knee, elbow and wrist pads for my roller skates, a journal, that only opens when I speak my password at it, oh, and a nice new bike:

So no more bumping myself in the chin with my knees any more.  I was really pleased with it, especially as I really wanted a black bike!  I went to school with my massive I am 7 badge that Mum made sue she got me.

I had gymnastics after school, they gave me the bumps which was cool.  What was even cooler was getting my level 3 badge.  I didn't even need to do the splits as i'd feared.

I had a bit of a meltdown after lising my swimming hat and goggles during school swimming lessons.  Mum said I had to pay for new ones out of my own money.....

I had netball, i've been going for a whole year now.

Once we'd finished our sporting activities and picked Mum up, it was on with the main event, the birthday trip to Pizza Hut.

Once the garlic bread, salad bar and Pizza waere all done, it was time for pud.

Mum and I had a big old cookie dough sharer platter:

And I had an ice cream sundae, because I wanted a sparkler.  The trouble was that by the time it got to our table the sparkler had burnt itself out.  The waitress managed to find another one and lit it at the table for us!

We went home for a purely ceremonial cake (no one wanted to eat any after Pizza Hut)

My day was nicely rounded off by a video of Darcey singing me happy birthday that Auntie Christine sent us!

Wednesday

There's loads of dogs tethered to the fence theses days outside juniors when we go down to pick Ned up.  It's brilliant, I know all their names and have asked all the owners if it's okay to give them some fussing while we wait for Ned to come out.

When we got home I sorted my password out on my journal, it's so cool.  It's also got an invisible pen that   you can only see with the special little light thats inside it.

It was seriously annoying listening to her repeat the flipping password over and over again.

I took my bike out for it's maiden voyage after tea, although it might be very slightly too big I rode it really well and am looking really comfortable on it already.

Thursday

As if I wasn't having a cool enough week already, it was school trip day as well.  We went to Marwell Zoo, so, a pretty good prospect. The coach travel was obviously well exciting as were the animals, particularly the Amur Leopards (my current favourite)  and the meerkats.  What wasn't so great though was the lack of park or little train action!

Dad and I went to collect Mum's new bike after tea from a collection depot in Thatcham.

We were so excited about it, we've wanted her to get a bike for ages and she finally has.

When the bloke pulled it out of the warehouse it was in the biggest box I think i'd ever seen.  The man laughed and suggested we might like to take the bike out of the box before trying to get it in the car, which we duly did.  I had to crawl down inside the box to get the lovely basket and pedals out as they were stuck right down the other end.

When they got it home we helped unwrap it and build it up for Mum before she took it out for a spin around the block.  She seemd pretty pleased with it....

Although she lacked the excitment of Dad, Ellis and myself.

Friday

My swimming hat and goggles turned up on a chair at school, what a result!

We had Mufti day and I got to look cool in my new birthday trainers.

Cricket club only ran last term, so Dad didn't bother coming to get me after school.

Nah we stayed in the adventure playground.

I was greeted with a 'what are you doing here' comment from him when I made my way up there, caring parenting that is!

We had a barbecue for tea, Andy came to do a little electrical job so he joined us.

And so did Alan eventually, he was at a loose end with Hayley going out.  He bought some board games with him too.  We played Zombies!!!!! and I was allowed to join in.  It was epic, even though it did go on a little bit.  It was worth the late night though, I won!

Saturday

We went party shopping in the morning, food, drink, sweets, biscuits and small gifts for a luck dip in the place of party bags.

Yeah, it was a good trip, it went pretty well actually, we got some cool stuff.  Especially the giant marshmallows!  

In the afternoon it was the school fete, Anne came along too which was nice.

My last one at the infants.

I'm sure we'll find out what day it's on and keep going for a good few years yet though.

There were the usual fun and games on offer.

I won loads on the childs tombola.

I didn't.

Then I won guess how many sweets in the jar (560)

And I had my face painted:

Some of the sweets made my mouth and teeth very blue indeed as you can see above.

Mum had a stint on the adult tombola, that we loved helping her with.

And then Dad did his bit cooking on the barbecue, but just as his stint had started they had a load of undercooked sausages by the previous chef's bought back by unhappy customers.  He wasn't impressed that it made it look like he'd undercooked them!

The stall got a little light on helpers so I pitched in, manning the cold drinks station.  One of the other ladies asked how my maths was, Dad told her it was better than his....

When we got home I just sort of somehow managed to do the splits!  After months of trying, it just sort of happened:

Sunday

Dad and I were up early for a bike ride at Swinley forest.  We decided to tackle the blue and then the red trail today.  I certainly enjoyed the silence and total stillness of the woods in the early morning sunshine, it was lovely.  The ride seemed pretty hard work though, we were both pretty puffed out it has to be said.  There were some really good sections on the red trail, I got loose on the downhills and managed to keep it rubber side down, Dad was well impressed my skills.  He frightened me with his, he's a maniac if I don't keep him under control, screaming down the hills and doing jumps all over the place, at his age!!!!

I on the other hand had a lovely lazy morning, keeping myself fresh for my party that afternoon.

I had a quick power nap before lunch time.

Then it was a burst of frenzied activity to get everything ready for my party.

Ellis had chosen a good menu, pink wafers, chocolate fingers, crisps, sausages, sausage rolls, sandwiches, pizza, shame she also wanted carrot, cucumber and little tomatoes too.

We made our way to the gymnastics club, met up with Auntie Christine and Auntie Trish who were coming to help and then waited for my friends to arrive before heading into the gym for the warm up:

Then we got stuck into the real stuff:

Yep:

Dad did a good job rolling my friends around in the big tyre:

Amie and I loved the bouncy tumble track:

Auntie Christine pretty much stole the show with her ribbon floor routine it has to be said.

After an hour of this and with very red faces indeed it was time for food:

And then cake and candles and a good loud singing of happy birthday:

I loved it.  Thanks to my Aunties for all the fun and help we really appreciated it.

We went home and I made my way through my sack load of presents and cards.

But sadly there was no Catchphrase to watch as there was some celebrity football match on instead.

Monday

I'm getting seriously excited about the World Cup, it's been a hot topic at school thats for sure.

I've got another wobbly tooth on the go, it isn't quite ready to come out yet though.

We had our last Quad kids training session before the competition at the weekend.  We ended it with a serious waterfight, I was soaked!

The weekend had caught up with us, we were both proper tired in the evening.

So it was an early night all round....yawn.

Tuesday
I had my television appearance confirmed by one of the Mums in the playground after school, her two sons had shrieked that Ellis was on the telly, doing a dance, in my dressing gown.  So it was on, but it was in the morning, not the afternoon......what a shame we missed it.

Well, the last bit of afterschool netball was certainly a soggy affair, with a pretty hefty downpour forcing us indoors to sit it out until collection time.

I nearly mananaged to get a new leotard for gymnastics, but as usual Dad didn't have any money on him.  The new ones are really cool, and really red!

Wednesday

We did Go Givers again, involving a visit from the year two's.

Indeed we did, we got to go to Ned's class too.  Not sure Ned was too pleased to have me there, but neither was Ali after I twisted his arm right round during a bit of a wrestle!

I had my last swimming lesson (for now anyway), fun week, mats, dive sticks, water polo with Matice.  All great fun but it'll be nice to have a break from it I think.
Loom bands.
Yeah, Loom Bands!
We are all over these, twisting them away at any oppurtunity.
We do them at home...
At breakfast club....
In the car......
While Ellis is swimming......

Thursday

One of the ladies at Mum's work had been saving the Lego from the newspaper last week, Mum let us have it all today.
We had a lovely time before school building it all.
Then after school we got well and truly into our World Cup Sticker albums, much to Dad's disgust....

Friday

The last day of term was upon us.
An we are still not in our new classroom.  Progress does look good though, I reckon it'll be done soon.
Better hurry up, we've only got another half term left before we're done for the year.
Obviously with summer on the way, the weather is great, leading to cricket club being cancelled.
In addition to that, I had to miss the end of term school disco as well!
It was for a good reason though Ned, we were off to Cornwall.

Yeah, we hadn't been for ages, well, about five weeks anyway.
We had to stop earlier than our usual Exeter visit, due to the onset of hunger.
We did, the Burger King was up to it's usual standards, slow service and expensive.
But the Costa's was a disaster, no toasted sandwiches!  I had to make do with a M&S salad and a lump of cheese.
On the way back to the car we saw a little tiny dog, about the size of a guinea pig have a wee while half way accross the road.
What was remarkable though was the amount of wee that came out of such a small creature, there was litres and litres of it!

What with it being a bank holiday weekend and half term the traffic was a little bit on the heavy side so we were pretty late to the caravan.

Saturday

We had just about enough provisions to eek out a breakfast after a nice lie in.
And then we had a trip out to Tesco in Wadebridge for our 'Click and Collect' food order.
Yeah, with deliveries now being banned on the campsite we thought we'd give it a go.
It worked out very well too!

It was a lovely sunny morning, we helped Dad cut the grass around the caravan which we loved.
The Shepherds were all there too, including Connie the dog, who at a year old now was much bigger than last time we saw her.
She's lovely and enjoyed being made a fuss of.

We spent the rest of the day hanging about riding our scooters and my roller skates.

Before watching Britains Got Talent in the evening.

Sunday

After mum's wetsuit got ruined in California she's been looking for a replacement.

She tried four on last time we were down in Cornwall but didn't really like any of them.

She pinned all her hopes on a trip to Polzeath.

She found one she liked, tried it on and bought it.  How easy!

I also managed to snag a new pair of Crocs and got a free mini-croc-man ornalent thingy as well, he was well cool.

We had a walk accross the beach to the waters edge.

In the afternoon we went out with the Shepherds and Connie.

Firstly it was down the beach, we payed some cricket, played with the dog.

Fished the rock pools, did some climbing.

Then it was up to the swimming pool for a dip, it was pretty cold in there.

But Mum seemed to be enjoying her new wetsuit.

I jumped off the rock after a little bit of 'coaching' too, which impressed the onlookers.

We walked down to Constantine Bay, throwing a tennis ball for the dogs amusement.

She could run seriously fast when the ball needed fetching.

Monday

The weather wasn't quite so good today.

In fact it was pretty miserable out.

We made the best of it though with a few games of cards in the caravan.

And another walk with Connie.  She still loved fetching her ball.

She wasn't quite so keen on fetching it from the sea initially though but After a few paddles to collect the ball, I got a bit enthusiastic and launched it a looooong way out.  Connie had a good look at it, skipped out over the waves as far as she could go before taking the plunge and breaking into a full on doggie paddle.  Amy was delighted.

We sat on the rocks and threw a few catalogue poses and tried to find some suitable sized rocks for Sarah to practice for her forthcoming shot put competition.

We even had a barbecue with them for lunch which was really lovely.

Indeed it was, jacket potatoes with cheese and delicious homemade cakes too, why aren't all barbecues this good?  Thanks for having us over.

Tuesday

The weather was back to it's Cornish best again, it was a beautifully sunny day.

We headed to the Go kart track straight after breakfast, we were pretty much the first ones there.

How exciting, especially now i'm an old hand at it.

We couldn't wait to get out on the track.

Neither could the last of the junior's in line that rammed his cart into the back of us as we all waited to go out on the track.

I even got a jolt right at the front of the queue!

We were soon out on track though, it was brilliant.

I absolutely floored it and even managed to overtake a couple of grown ups in their more powerful karts.

Dad and I just managed to sneak past the marshall as he hung the chequered flag out  so we got ourselves a whole extra lap alone on the track.

We made our way back via the bakery to pick up lunch.

We took a leisurely lunch outside the caravan on the blanket, lovely, this is the lufe as Mum would say.

After we had refuelled we headed down the beach.

It was glorious.

A good spell of digging, climbing and swimming in the sea.

We also bumped into our next door neighbours, who were staying in the camping field in their motorhome, apparently they are pretty regular visitors to Treyarnon too!

The highlight of the afternoon for me was the sport of course.  Firstly our extreme boule championship, across the rocks and what have you and then some kingball.  Brilliant.

We had our tea enjoying the evening sunshine:

We had alovely walk after tea walk accross the headland on the other side of the beach.

And then Round to Constantine

Wednesday

Like the go karting, we got our annual trip to Bedruthan steps in early this year.

We really do like exploring down there, spot the Ned:

We spent the afternoon surfing back at Treyarnon.

Followed by tea at the Youth Hostel before setting off for home.
Hopefully we'll be back again soon......

Thursday

Despite our late night we were up early for a day with Auntie christine.

We started the day at the Marks and Spencer cafe.

For a delicious breakfast, the bacon bap nowcked the spots off Costa's too, three reashers of bacon rather than just the one.

After that it was off to Four Kingdoms farm park place.  Brilliant!

All the playgorunds and the cars and the bouncy slides were fantastic of course.

But the real highlight had to be the lamb feeding.

Oh it was lovely, the greedy little beasts couldn't get enough of their milk bottles that we were holding.

There may have been a little face painting too:

Friday

So after Laura made a rash comment about looking after us a few weeks ago, she had to go through with it.
We were very excitied to spend the day with Darcey and couldn't wait.
We went to see a circus up at Millets farm, so we got to have a decent ride in Laura's monster truck too!
It was great fun, and we certainly enjoyed the show.
The real highlight for me though came when we got back to Darceys house and Laura said we could have our nails painted and that we could choose the colour we wanted from her collection.  It was unbelievable, there were so many colours to choose from, how fantastic.  She made a really good job of it for us too, not the blobby mess Mum and Dad usually manage.

Saturday
For Alan's recent birthday, we got him tickets to go to a Board Games show up in Birmingham.
To tell the truth, Dad and I (and I suspect Hayley) were a little dubious about the whole affair.
Whereas Mum and I were beside ourselves with excitment.
We went to pick Alan up and all went up in our car, with Ned and I taking the two back seats...cool.
The journey was good fun, we got to have a proper good chat and a laugh with Alan and Hayley on the way.
After driving around several hundred roundabouts at the NEC we finally found where we supposed to be and parked up.
Their was a bus trip to the venue, a Hotel, which was pretty good fun.
Especially as Mum kept pressing the 'STOP' button on the bus with her shoulder unknowingly.  She found this hilarious.
When we entered we got handed a lanyard to wear, I thought this was pretty cool actually.
And after a bit of milling about we found the Family Games room.  
It was awesome, there was a massive Ticket To Ride Game which I was seriously impressed with.
Best of all, you could play any of the games, there were hundreds on offer:

So it wasn't quite as bad as i'd feared after all.  In fact, it was pretty good fun. Especially with the treasure hunt (for posters scattered around the venue, each giving you a letter to solve a mystery) as well, the prize being a cool glow in the dark wristband, we do love a wristband.

Team that up with cool chain mail and armour to wear and we were well on to a winner here:

It has to be said though, the attendees were mainly of the male variety, and some of them may have been just a little bit on the geeky side.

So it was a good job us ladies were on hand to provide a little bit of glamour, and we do love a game of Dobble:

In another of the rooms there were loads of games being played, I spotted a spare seat at a game of Ticket to Ride that was just about to start......and joined in!  Four grown ups to take on, complete strangers:

I had a brilliant time, couldn't quite pull off the win in the end but it was great fun.

Dad and I found a quiet corner while he was playing and had a few chapers from my Wishing Chair book.

We spent the whole day there, finishing off with another visit to the family games room where we managed to snag the Massive Ticket to Ride for a game.

That Mum played at the same time as playing me at a load of other games on an adjacent table.  True multi-tasking!  Thanks Mum.

We didn'ty get home until pretty late.....

Sunday

.....Meaning I didn't get up in time for the planned Sunday morning bike ride.
 Never mind, we all had a bit of a lay in which was nice.
I sneaked off to Tesco with Mum to do some secret Ellis birthday related business....
And then I settled down for some quality time with the telly.

While I helped Mum and Dad in a spot of car washing.  It was filthy, I don't think it had been done since last August.

We spent the afternoon doing various bits of home work, exciting huh?
Before I esscaped off out with the boys for a bit down the park.
And Mum and Dad took me up to the Wash Common park for a play:

Monday

We moved in to our brand new classroom today, how very exciting.  It's really lovely in there and will be nice to spend the next term in the luxury it provides after our time crammed into the room by the hall.

It was also my last day of being six......