Tuesday

So for international week, as we were doing Spain we made a visit to La Tasca for some food tasting.  The chorizo was obviously lush....you can keep the rest of it though.

Yeah, the year 4's got pizza, talk about rubbing it in, we got nothing!

It was the school book fair after school, the one time a year we are interested in books!

Gymnastics was a pretty warm affair this week, there were a lot of bright pink cheeks leaving thr gym when we finished.

Wednesday

The day no one was waiting for, the year three Viola and viola concert assembly.  Still, we had to grin and bear it and endure the torture. The real stinker was a version of uptown funk on violins, in comparison that our viola stuff sounded almost passable.

Being the hottest day of the year we decided against Team Kennet, packed ourselves a picnic and went to the outdoor pool instead. 

It seemed a little smarter in general than last time we went there.

We got there just in time too, it was one in one out after we had got in as they had reached the maximum capacity.

Andy managed to get in eventually and meet up with us.

Ben and Lilly were there too, I went diving in the deep end with Ben.

I had a great time larking about with Lilly.

Friday

Got into a bit more trouble at school today, defending and helping out Amy.  It didn't go down too well with the teachers though, although they did sympathise, to a degree with my motives.  Another red card for the collection.

It wasn't all bad though, it was Amy's birthday tea party after school.  It was brilliant fun, even her sisters were on good form. We even had a water fight to make the most of the continuing hot spell.

While she was there I persuaded Mum and Dad to take me to the outdoor pool again.  A load of my mates were going so it was nice to meet up with them for some fun and help them share their picnics.

Saturday

The most exciting thing for some time, Alastairs painballing trip.  I was so looking forward to this one.  It was every bit as good as i'd hoped it would be too.

We took a bike ride to victoria park, it was a much less frantic affair without Ned constantly gunning it along then stopping for us to catch up, then gunning it again and weaving all over the path.  We really rather enjoyed it!

Paintballing was so cool, we got kitted up with helmets and visors and gloves and loaded our guns with paintballs.  We played loads of different games, involving raiding castles and trying to get the 'president' onto an actual bus.  The other teams there were good fun too.  What a top day.

When he got home he was a sweaty, painty mess and yet he still couldn't understand why he had to have a shower!

Meh, I wasn't that mucky?

We went to a barbecue at Chris and Kates in the evening, they had done a great job and had got the whole gang out.

Yeah, pretty much everyone was there, obviously Finlay and Millie, then there was Abi and Faye, Kimi and Marny, Max, Leo and Hartley, Fen and Yanna (who we hadn't seen for ages) and even Nate.

We had a great time.

I had a long stretch in goal and made some great saves.

But the real highlight was Max giving us a 'super boost' on the trampoline.

Sunday

Between Dad and I we'd cooked up a scheme to got a Downhill Bike race on Sunday, take part and then meet up with Mum and Ellis (driven there by Andy) at Hollycombe Steam Fair which just so happened to be right next door.  Great plan we thought.  We got to the race venue nice and early and walked the track, it looked okay so we thought we'd sign on and get stuck in. We headed up to the top of a frankly exhausting push up path and got ready for practice to start.  It went pretty badly from the first corner where I took the wrong line and fell off.  It was a steep section of track that was also surprisingly wet and slimy, I didn't get myself composed properly so pretty soon found myself off again, and then again.  Once we got onto the less slippery section I was flying though, between the really tight trees all the way to the bottom.  We pushed back up and had another go.  I got the first corner right but things soon went wrong again and I had another couple of offs.  I decided this really wasn't for me.  I went back to the car, ate some pretzels and played on the Ipad until Mum, Ellis and Andy turned up.  I was pretty gutted about it all it has to be said.

It was great to see Dad though, I gave him a big cuddle and wished him luck before his first race run.

I took Mum and Ellis and Andy up the track to the best point to watche from (where we'd seen plenty of crashes during practice).

The woods were really lovely to wander through.

We watched the first race runs and had to wait ages for Dad to come down as it ran pretty much in age category order.

Yeah, being as he was in Veterans class, a fact I loved shouting at him as encouragement as he went past.

He looked surprisingly competent and at least he didn't fall off, we made plenty of noise for him.

We wandered down and met him at the bottom, he'd managed to not kill himself and was pretty happy with how it went.

So we left him to it and headed off to the steam fair.

He still had one run to take so arranged to meet us after he'd finished.

Hollycombe then, as cool as ever even if the Haunted House has been removed for renovation.

Although it's possible that we might be getting a little bit big for some of the rides:

But not the big wheel!

Good job Dad was elsewhere, it was swaying really well in the wind, he'd have hated it!

But he soon showed up to join us as the race finished quite early.

He's had a bit of an off on his second run but didn't seem to be any the worse for wear.

Until he got off the Razzle Dazzle, always a pleasure that one! 

We're always amazed at how old the stuff is there, it's so cool that it's still kept running.

Yeah, even the music is authentic and comes from boxes and boxes of folded paper, punched with holes that get fed through the organ.  How cool!

Monday

Interesting day for us at school today. all the St Barts kids had their induction day, leaving only us 9 behind.  We had a pretty cool day doing some work on our Rhos project and a load of football!

And I got to paint a section of yet another ornamental horse our school seems to have aquired.

It was also a landmark day, the end of our non finger sucking for a month trial!

Yep, we did it.  That was an easy £20, even if I did have to go to bed with my arms down by my side to help.  So thats me finished with that, my finger nails look better already, recovering from years of sucking.

I might still have the occasional suck I reckon?  Although everyone else thinks this is a bad idea.  My manky old blanket has also been put away too,haven't snuggled that for a month either!

Tuesday

Play rehearsals have ramped up a notch, we had to do it in front of year five.  As dad pointed out there was no pont being nervous in front of them as we'd be doing it front of the whole school and then the parents soon enough.  With that sort of perspective on the matter I threw myself into it and really enjoyed myself.

It was watching week at gymnastics, shame I was doing floor drills again like last time.

Wednesday

Big news today, Mum had got herself a job.

And it looks very much like she'll be home in time to still pick us up from school, perfect!

It was also a big day on the sporting front, the Team Kennet club championships.

I was pretty nervous about it really, my first proper competition and all that.

I wasn't, although my 40 metre target in the vortex to secure a trip to Pizza Hut was playing on my mind.

We were doing a sprint, a middle distance run, long jump and of course Vortex throwing.

I was in the under nines.

And I was in the under thirteens.

We got there really early so set up on the grass bank at then end for a lovely picnic before signing in and attaching our numbers to our shirts.

We got into our groups and it was much like an ordinary week really and I really started to enjoy myself.

Me too, I had Ali and my other mates with me so it was good fun.

Dad took a few wafty pictures, but to be fair to him it is pretty difficult to get a good shot because of the layout of the track and the infield.

There were some better ones on the Team Kennet facebook page though:

So the results then.

I did pretty well, 4th in long jump and 2nd in the vortex.  A couple of average results on the running races put me in 6th overall, not too shabby.

I smashed my main target for the evening with a pretty epic 43.9 metre vortex throw.  I was so chuffed even though it was only good enough for second place in my caregory.  I too had fairly average runs and a long jump, but just like Ellis I claimed a sixth place overall.

Panda loved it too:

Thursday

Darcey had a visit to our school ahead of her starting in September and decided she would come and pay us a visit after tea.

Dad and I were just about to leave for a night on the bikes at Tidworth. I really fancied staying and playing....but the lure of the woods were too strong.

Never mind Ned, us girls had a lovely time, I hope she drops in more often once she starts school. We even got the cars out:

Tidworth was brilliant again. I'm loving it, and riding faster and jumping further every time I go.  I drew quite lot of glances from others up there as I flew down the track.

Friday

As if the club championships weren't enough this week it was school sports day!

And with Mum off, she could come for the whole thing.

My last one at junior school and it was business as usual with our house Craven, coming well and truly last.  I'm quite used to this by now.

I'm not, I didn't like it one bit.

Still, the events were a good mixed bag, netball shooting:

Full commitment standing long jump:

Obstacle course race:

A sweet victory in the hurdles:

Vortex throwing:

I enjoyed the netball shooting more than Ellis, bagging 14 of our teams 16 goals:

The parents event was an egg and spoon this year.

Mrs Watkins was on a mission to banish cheating too.

I got all my gang to cheer Mum on, we were very, very vocal:

She did okay as well, coming second or third or thereabouts.

As if that wasn't enough sport for one day the quadkids team spent all afternoon practicing for the upcoming regional compeition.  Then I went off to Roberts for tea and some football before going on to Louise's birthday disco......pretty tiring day then.

So we were Ned free for the evening, hot dogs for tea then a trip to my favourite shop, Pets At Home.  Where we saw Abi and Faye fetting Faye's birthday present.....a hamster!  I want one sooooooo bad.

Saturday

We had a bike ride planned, the Two Tunnels Greenway route down in Bath.

The highlight of the route (on a a disused railway line) was two tunnels, one of which was over a mile long!

We set off full of excitement....

.....welll, I was a bit more dubious in all honesty.

We passed through the first tunnel, it was pretty cool.

It was certainly pretty dark, although there was decent lighting in there.

It was a good warm up for the main event still to come.

It was a lovely day and we soon found somewhere nice for a picnic stop:

Just outside the long tunnel entrance:

Once we were refreshed we headed into the gloom:

It was brilliant, lovely smooth tarmac, just enough light to see who was coming the other way and a great oppurtunity to get the head down and spin a big gear.

There were lights playing short snatches of classical music half way along which were proper smart and also distracted you from just how coldit had got in there!

Yeah, it was freezing.

It kept going and going and going until we finally saw the light up ahead:

We burst out into the sunshine and it felt so hot outside it was like getting off the plane in Spain or something.

We carried on, over a high viaduct where things took a turn for the worse, Dads saddle bolt snapped.  

Oops, we stifled giggles as he tried to fix it with a temporary repair,in the process ruining his shorts with oil and grease.

Oh dear.

We carried on the trail until we got to the pub, where the silly man decided to wrap himself up in brambles, shredding the back of his ankle.  This also had the side affect of shoving his bike sufficiently strongly to once again dislodge his saddle.  He was not happy.

We locked the bikes up, found a nice table in the sunshine and had a lovely cold drink while dad tended to his wound.

Time for the return leg then, we knew what we in for this time so made sure we donned pur cardies before entering the long tunnel:

We had spotted a park on the way down so stopped there for a good old play before we made it back to the car to finish our trip, with poor old Dad standing up the whole way.

We had a bit of a slouch about at home until everyone was sufficiently hungry to claim my reward for the vortex throw, a trip to Pizza Hut:

It was well lush.
And I got a free, additional pizza as they bought me a ham one when we ordered pepperoni, thats tomorrows breakfast sorted then!

Sunday

Mum had booked us tickets for the Cinema for the morning, to see the film Home that we'd wanted to see for a while.
So we were a bit disappointed when the film started that it was in actual fact Two by Two instead.
Dad went to find out what was going on, turns out there were technical difficulties with Home so we got this instead.  Nice of them to tell us in advance?
Anyway, the film was good and we really rather enjoyed it.
I had a haircut afterwards.
And I crusied the Kennet Centre on my Heely's as I didn't fancy a haircut.
We spent the rest of the day in a homework nightmare, as usual we have been putting it off until the last minute.

In the evening it was the last ever episode of Top Gear, I loved it but was pretty sad it won't be on anymore....although the repeats on Dave will go on for all eternity i'm sure.

Monday

We're having international week at school.
To kick things off we were allowed to wear our holiday clothes to school.
 Which caused widespread panic as we weren't 100% certain that it was actually today and we might actually have to wear uniform after all.

We had a one off Quad kids practice after school, just for the team of year 5 and 6's that are going to the regional competion next week.  Mr Gilham has set us all the target of beating our scores from the last competition so we were out working hard at achieving that.  We were measuring and timing and everything.  There was still time to lark about with the girls though.....
After tea we went to Donnington castle for a bit of a walk and to see if the rope swings were still there.
Rubbish, I didn't want to go, booooooring.  I got accused of being a teenager.
He soon changed his tune though, a game of hide and seek and then a go on the swing changed his tune.
Yeah, it was pretty cool actually....

Tuesday
Well Gymnastics was a bit of an anti climax this week.  We were supposed to be doing the second part of our badge award.  We all got told that we weren't good enough for the grade we were going for so there was no point doing it.  It's the first time I think I think i've ever not passed a badge.....

Wednesday

We saw something truly epic on a tv show called 'All over the place' on CBBC before school. It's a museum in France that has a massive mechanical elephant.

It walks along and squirts water out of his trunk.

And best of all, you can ride along in him! We've started lobbying hard to go there and check it out.

Thursday
Rehearsals are continuing for the school play, I think it's going okay still.  We did some more read throughs at home after school before I tagged along with Dad for an evening bike ride at Tidworth Freeride.  It's pretty much my favourite bike riding place at the moment even if i'm still not keen on the massive and frankly unrideable root sections.  The bottom half of one of the tracks is a real treat though, drops berms and jumps aplenty.

While they were gone Mum and I had a trip to the park:

And did a few creative bits and bobs ahead of fathers day on Sunday.

We didn't het home until after nine, the evenings are so long at this time of year, it wasn't dark, even under the trees.

Friday
Bit of trouble at school today, involving another girl I seem to have an occasional 'difference of opinion' with.  The details are pretty murky and I don't want to talk about it much, but I had to visit Mrs. Watkins a number of times and have recieved a red card. Oh dear.

In the evening we had a trip to the Craven Arms, I wasn't looking forward to it that much as I knew the grown ups would just sit about being boring while I wanted to play football.
But we did have a very special guest, Nate:

He seemed to find me really funny!
In the end there were loads of kids over there, some I knew from school so we had a good old kickabout in the end, I needn't have worried!
 
Saturday
I had a lunchtime party for Charlotte's birthday, which put paid to any day-long activities.
So we had a lazy morning and I accompanied dad on a trip to Waitrose for a few bits.
The party was brilliant, we had pizza, ice creams and traditional games (I won some shopkins in a game of pass the parcel).
In the afternoon we rode to the city playground for some athletics practice.
I wanted some extra practice throwing the vortex.
So I gave her a few pointers...
....and I made good progress!  We also did some running.
And I nearly died of hayfever.....do not like!
We also finally made a return to roller skating, we haven't been for ages so I got to use my new bag for the first time.
It was great fun, there didn't seem to be many there this week.  Teagan and Lola were there though and we had a great time larking about.

Sunday
Fathers day, I was very excited to present my home made card and selection of artworks i'd produced for the occasion.
And I was quite keen to give him his presents so we could make a start on the wine gums, although I did find a really good card this year, based on toilet humour!
After a bit of discussion we decided on a trip to Legoland rather than a bike ride.
Well, it's not like we were supposed to do things Dad liked was it?
He loves Legoland, and anyway, we wanted to wear our Heely's and glide about the place.
Add to that the new Lego Friends bit now being open and we were well keen.
The new friends bit only really comprised a bit of re-theming and one new ride, Stephanies Riding school:

It was a pretty weird ride, you sat on a horse and then the restraint came up behind you with a reasonable amount of pressure, I was used to it as there's one similar at Paultons.

I hated it, I think it hit me when I had breathed out so was quite a squash when I tried to breath in again.  I wanted off, which took a while....

Dad and I stayed put, it was brilliant.  Even better was that there was hardly anyone around so we had another go.....and another go!

Dad talked me into having another try, and guess what?  It was a brilliant and I loved it!

There was also a new F\riends themed show, it was quite clear pretty much straight away that they were not going to be diving into the water at any point.

It was a singing and dancing sort of thing, it wasn't up to much really. 

We went on a few forgotten classics:

And then while we were waiting to get on the dragon rollercoaster, it broke down.
Which was a shame.
But by way of compensation we got given a queue jump ticket for any ride in the park.
Universal consensus was the boating school, famed for it's lengthy wait.
It was brilliant swanning up to the front of the queue in the Qbot entrance and then just hopping on while everyone else looked on, admiringly.
The boats themselves were carnage from Dad and I's boat, I took steering duties and decided to pull a series of doughnuts in the more open section out out the back, away from the glare of the ride operators.  We managed to make a good few other vessels swerve and take evasive action and then got caught in point blank range of the water squirting elephant.
Mum and I were waiting for them so long we thought they had sunk!

Monday
In a hasty arrangement I got Robert  round for tea.
So it was a good job I had after school dance to stay out of their way for a bit.
After we'd eaten we headed down the park, Dad had bought a 50 metre tape measure so he could actually measure my vortex throws as a trainign aid for the upcoming team Kennet club championships and my 40 metre pizza hut target.  I maxed out at about 37 metres, so I was still a little way short....
I had a standing long jump session under Mum's guidance and went from an average of 1 metre or so, to just over 1.50 metres consistently.

Tuesday

Finally i've got my three three times table award, it's taken a while but i've finally done it.

In other school related news Mum came in as a reading buddy today, how exciting.  She was pretty good at it by all accounts even though i'm not sure how many kids she got through as she was too interested in hearing what happened at the end of the stories or asking extra questions about the characters.

We had a fun event scheduled, MathOlympics.  Dad thought it sounded great fun....not. Turns out he was right, it wasn't that enjoyable...unless you llike being barked at by a rather abrupt maths teacher from St Barts.

It was badge week at gymnastics, now i'm working my way up the awards they are getting a bit tougher.  This week I think we started 'Gold Apparatus' but we have to finish off the assessment next week..... 

Wednesday
After school football ended in disaster.  Turns out Mr Gilham gets as hacked off with sone of the players attitudes as I do, he ended the session with a lecture and told us that that was it....no more football club this term!  I was pretty disappointed but I can completely understand why he did it.

When I got home my Heely's had arrived, I was super excited.  I had scoured the internet for a pair and chanced across a some that were reduced to half price, I do love a bargain.  I couldn't wait to get them on and start rolling.  Turns out Ellis had made it look easier than it actually was.  Having said that i'd got the hang of them by the time tea was ready.....albeit with a little less skin on my knees than when I had started off.

I went out to join him and we both flew along the pavements near school looking pretty damn graceful.

We had to take them of for Team Kennet sadly.....

Thursday

Mum came to school to do reading again, this time with Mr Percy's class.  I wish she could read with me! She says I can do that at home whenever I want, but come on, it's obviously not the same is it?

I went school uniform shopping after school, for Park House stuff.  Thought we'd beat the rush and all that.  First thing to do was try on a blazer.

It made him look like an old man!

Then it was a jumper, rugby shirt, polo shirt, shorts and sports socks.  All the sports stuff could be printed with initials too, on the outside in big white letters not just inside on the name tag, how cool is that?

Almost as cool as rolling around the super smooth marble floor of the Kennet Centre on our Heely's.

Yeah, while we were waiting for the initials to be printed we crossed the road for some serious gliding.

Bit of a split after tea, with Dad and I heading to the woods with our bikes.

While Mum and I took a walk to Wash Common park:

The woods were okay, but I prefer Tidworth or anywhere with proper, marked up official tracks.

Friday

Practice for our play moved onto learning the songs today. It went pretty well I think.

We had a game of Donkey and the Carrot after tea, still one of my favourites.

I gave it a miss and had a total geek out on the computer.  I even managed to win a game of Age of Empires!

Saturday

Quad kids today, my last one and I was quite looking forward to it.

I wasn't really, another long day hanging about.  Having said that there were loads of peolpe there I knew to hang out with.  We also dropped in on Uncle Den for a flying visit as he lives opposite.

As usual with Quad Kids the weather wasn't as good as you might hope for in June.  So it was a bit wet which affected the sport.  There were plenty of participants slipping over in the sprint.  The Vortex throwing was conducted without a run up and the standing long jump had it's fair share of slipping and falling. In spite of all this I did okay, even managing to win my 75 metre sprint heat.  We managed a third place team finish for year 5 and 6, not bad....but not quite good enough to win a place at the regional finals:

In the evening we paid a visit to Max and Leo's.

Hartley was brilliant fun, always up for a game.

And their new pool was great fun too, if a bit cold.

I took one graceful leap over the side to immerse myself.

Whereas I went for the more gradual approach.

We had a great night with plenty of laughs...

And we stayed very late!

Sunday

So we weren't in any real hurry to get out of bed this morning.

We did have a deadline of sorts as Anne and Mike were coming round for lunch.

It was nice to see them.

And then we had a visit from Nate too.

He's still seriously cute.

It was only a flying visit though as we had my birthday party to go to.

We had Auntie Trish and Andy along to help which was brilliant.

It was at the gymnastics club again, so an hour of bouncing, rolling and springing, all resulting in us getting very pink faces:

As well as a session being pushed round in the doughnut of course:

I certainly enjoyed it.

And I did too on the whole, except for what must have been the loudest rendition of happy birthday the world had ever heard!

I certainly enjoyed going through my sack load of presents at home:

I've got some very generous friends who seem to know me very well.

So thanks to them and thanks to Andy and Trish for helping out, it was lovely of you both, especially as you had the most important job of fetching the massive McDonalds order!

Monday

So with quad kids done and dusted I had no after school club on a monday night for the first time I can ever remember. News did filter back regarding the Quad Kids event though....it turns out I had done a lot better than I thought.  Upon examination of the final results sheet, I came 13th overall, not bad for all the year 5 & 6 school kids in West Berkshire.  The highlight result was probably my third place in the standing long jump although I was well up there with the throwing and the sprinting too. We also found out that we had actually qualified for a place representing West Berkshire at the summer school games regional competition.  Another day off hopefully.

I had dance after school, we danced to Reet Petite wnd got to chose our own partners to work with. I paired up with Lola and we loved it!

Tuesday

A good day on the sporting front, i've been picked for the Quadkids tournament again this year, and I was also awarded player of the day at tag Rugby club after school.  The Quad Kids thing was a bit of a relief as we were told places were in short supply this year.

I had tomorrows birthday announced at Gymnastics which was really cool.  On the way out I noticed the shop was selling club leotards in a new colour.....PURPLE!  I tried every sort of plea and beg I could muster but it was all to no avail....
While she was at gymnastics, we were involved in a not so secret mission.......
When I came home, tea was well under way, the pizza smelt especially good this week I commented.......
Yeah, thats because it was actually your birthday cake!  Once she had gone to bed we set about decorating it, Panda style:

Wednesday

Finally it was my birthday, 8 years old!  A rarity that it was on a school day as it usually falls during half term.  Which threw up a new problem, presents.  I wanted them as soon as I woke up, while Dad was still here before work, but with Ned asleep we knew he wouldn't be happy.  I didn't want to wait until after school and wait for Ned, especially as he had football club, that would be like hours and hours!  So we settled on a sort of compromise and I had a couple first thing.  One of which was my long, long wished for Heely's!
I got my 'I am 8' badge on and headed for school.  It was viola day and our teacher played me a lovely version of happy birthday too.

Football club was really annoying again.  Eveyone thinks they are the referee and any ssort of fair play goes out of the window as it degenerates into a popularity contest and little more than mob rule.....grrrrrrr!

I set about learning to Heely, they were really weird to begin with but after a while I was getting reasonably comfortable with them.  Mum took me down to the school where we could make the most of the lovely fresh, smooth tarmac in the new playground.  Thius helped no end and I was soon zooming along.
Once Ned was back from football I started on the rest of the presents:

The highlight of which was my purple leotard:

Then my 'surprise' cake:

Then it was Ellis' choice for tea, despite great efforts on my part to influence her decision she decided against Pizza Hut.

In favour of The Hatchet, well, Pizza Hut don't do hot dogs do they?

Thursday

We had an internet safety assembly at school.  I thought they were going to tell us not to use our Ipads sitting on the railway track, but apparently theres weirdoes and fibbers on the internet.  The upshot was that we shouldn't put anything on the internet that we wouldn't show our Grannies.  Well, I don't have one, so for the purpose of the exercise I decided i'd use Auntie Christine as my point of reference, even though she isn't old enough of course.

We had a wheels out the front session before tea, inspired by Ellis and her Heely's.....I really want some.  I dragged out the scooter, squeezed into Ellis' skates, one of our outgrown bikes and the skateboard.

I just stuck to gliding around on my Heely's.

After tea, in light of it being such a lovely evening we took to the bikes and headed for the park at Northcroft.

We did.  We rode along the canal and couldn't believe the amount of fish we could see in the canal, just below the surface, sunning themselves.

Yeah, they were just past the 'No Fishing' signs, Dad reckons they could read!

Some of them were huge as well.

There was a cyclocross race going on and there were loads of people zooming about on bikes.  Which was cool, but their course went right through the middle of the wafty pumptrack which was a little disappointing.

It didn't affect the park, I was happy!

Friday

High excitement, not only was it Friday, it was den building day and film night at school too!

So I was pretty devastated to start feeling poorly mid-morning, before we'd even finished our den.  Off home I went.

I got put in a group with Sasha and Ellie, we never get to work together so we were overjoyed. 

In the afternoon the adults were allowed to school early to see our creations, auntie Christine and Darcey turned up and as I was feeling a little better I tagged along to see how the den's had come on.

Here I am showing Darcey ours:

And I took a look at what my group Maisie, Rebecca and Dylan had managed to come up with:

The swing was a cool addition, they had done well!
I went back home and spent the rest of the afternoon asleep on the sofa and missed film night too.  My last ever one as well I reckon?
I went, the film was Big Hero Six.  I wore my best dress and sparkly heels.  Maybe a bit overdressed, but who cares.
I did more sleeping.  By the time Ellis was finished I felt a good bit better.

Which was good news as we were supposed to be heading down to Cornwall for the weekend with Andy, I really didn't want to misss that!

Neither did I, so we left pretty late, but slept pretty much the whole way there.....

Saturday

After a decent lay in we awoke to the distant sound of crashing waves, we were back in Cornwall and I was loving it.

And I felt a lot better, not quite 100% but well enough to get out in the sunshine and enjoy a lovely walk from Trevone Bay, along the coast path to Harlyn:

Once at Harlyn we stopped for some sweets (limited edition weird flavoured Haribo, revolting) and a lounge about in the sunshine:

Before walking back again.
We had an afternoon surf session, which was epic!
Yeah, we loved it, I felt much better now.

The sea was pretty rough and all sorts of things were getting washed up.
Like a massive jellyfish, getting in the way of my skim board.
It was the size of a dustbin lid and wobbled when I prodded it with one of Andy's swim fins like a massive jelly.

In the evening we played Jungle speed.
Which I loved, we haven't played it for ages!

Sunday

Another lovely lay in.
And the morning on the beach.
A bit of surfing.
A bit of digging....
.....until Dad snapped my new, emergency replacement £2 spade spade.  Can't believe he didn't bring our proper ones.

We went ot the Youth Hostel for lunch but when they said there was a TWO HOUR wait we decided to seek alternative arrangements.
So tried the snack van in the carpark, it was lush too!
Back to the beach after that for some cricket, but with Dad and his dodgy leg and Andy with a pulled muscle the fielding left a lot to be desired.
It was great fun though and I loved running after the ball after Mum had slugged it.
Sadly we had to think about getting packed up, cleared up and on the road home again as it was school tomorrow.

Which was a real shame....I can't wait until August so we can have a whole week here.

Monday

We had our last Quad Kids practice session prior to the competition.  It went well and i'm really rather looking forward to it.
We had an auntie Trish visit after tea.  She had my birthday present.  Well, it turned out to be like a christmas stocking of birthday epicness!

There was a dead cool dog programme on later.  

We spent pretty much an hour issuing ever more high pitched ahhh's at the cute dogs they were showing.