Whats new and exciting this week...not much.
Got no photo's either, shame isn't it?
Oh well.
Yeah, we'll have to get onto some more boring stuff I suppose.  Like school work.  I would appear to be severely lacking in motivation for my homework projects, I can spend actual hours slaving away over just a couple of sentences.
I'm a lot more keen, I love it and will often just sit down and ask for words to spell.  Add that to the reading as well and i'm happy.  I reckon I will have caught up with Ned soon....
We had all the usual weekday stuff, school, Multisports,
Dancing,
Swimming and what have you and then it was the weekend.
Yeah the weekend indeed.  First up was an impromptu visit to the cinema.
Yes, it's cheap on Saturday morning or something?  Anyway, the film Rio was on, so we were well happy.
It was a great film, we loved it.
Such was the cheapness of the film, we were even allowed a McDonalds for lunch...yay!
And then it was home for a bit of slouching before we took Dad off to the station, he was off to London to see a band or something?
Yeah, we decided that even though he's a grumpy old git sometimes, we prefer it when he's around really.  Still, we made the best of it and went home with Mum for some Wii party action.
Followed by Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics and then a dose of Take me Out.  So not too shabby at all really.
Mum had to work on Sunday, which was a bit of a shock.
We didn't much in the morning, I got back on the Mario and Sonic Olympics.
Where I actually beat Ned at fencing!!!
Yeah yeah whatever! 
I gave up while I was ahead and had storytime with Dad.
Yeah and when that was finished I was forced to turn the Wii off!!!  So unfair.
Yeah, we even made him go down the park after lunch.
Hmmmmm, lets see, I fell off my bike, smacked my knee on the basket swing really hard and fell up the zip slide ramp.
Yeah and I headbutted the slide a a good few times as well, but I think on the whole we enjoyed ourselves didn't we?
Yeah, I reckon we did actually.
Especially when my friend Amelie from school showed up.
And a couple of my mates too.
We eventually got a call from Mum to say she was on her way home.
So we rode along the road towards town to meet her.
We had a nice roast dinner for tea with loads of lovely veg.
But best of all we had a wekend treat..pudding! Oh how i've missed you the last week.
We weren't very interested in Monday morning and gave Mum a right hard time.
We did, we wouldn't get dressed or anything. Some pretty heavy threats got issued against us, relating to non attendance of upcoming parties.....many tears followed.
So we'll try a bit harder tomorrow I reckon....
I had the first week of after school cross country club on Monday as well.  It was brilliant, we got to run around loads and loads and loads.  When Dad and Ellis came to collect me we even had a few races in the playground...obviously still not enough running!!!!!

I waited until I took my hood down in the dentist after school on Tuesday, glue hair!  It was like a bush, bey then I suppose it would be after i'd decided to rub handfuls of PVA into my barnet.  Anyway, the dentist didn't seem to mind, he was more interesyed in my teeth.  I was first up into the chair as well.
There was nothing to report, so it was just a quick poke around and then off to get our sticker.  I also got another envelope for my wobbly tooth.  The dentist did mention that i'm a bit slow getting my big teeth but it's nothing to worry about.
When we got home I had to get on with my school project, this week it was on Egyptian pyramids, so I should have been all over it.  Sadly motivation was lacking until I was really pushed into it. Once I got going though things flowed quite well, I used the picture of some pyramids we'd made out of geomag and also one we'd made out of raw spaghetti and marshmallows and did a great little write up of some cool pyramid facts.
We've started doing dancing at school on Wednesdays, I was good enopugh to earn myself a star and everything.  I still had enough energy for proper dancing after school as well though so that was okay.
I took my pyramid project in to school on Thursday.  It caught the eye of our teacher who in turn reckoned Mrs. Butt (The Deputy head) should see it.  She loved it as well and it was deemed good enough for a psecial smiley face gold sticker.  I also accompanied Dad on an after tea weekly food shop to Tesco.  He loves it when I go with him.  I was only really going to get Hugo a birthday present, so it was a bit of a disaster when we found the shelves that should have been groaning under the weight of Lego Ninjago were empty.....
Friday was swimming again of course, there was no Abi this week though...
No, nor Edward.  I didn't mind too much though and got well stuck in again.  I did a brilliant width of breast-stroke as well.
I was on form again this week, I love all the underwater stuff especially.
So Saturday was the day of Hugo's party and we still didn't have a present.  An emergency trip to Toys R Us was in order.
Yay, no complaints from me on that front.
We finally tracked down some Ninjago for Hugo, and I also spent some of my Christmas money on a Tech Deck skatepark.  Dad was well excited about it, Mum didn't get it at all.
I spent some of mine too, on some Bindeez beads (Hello Kitty of course).
After lunch I was taken to the bowling alley for the party, 12 boys in attendance, hyped up and ready for action.....
And we went home to do some beads, very fiddly.  So I got Dad to do them for me while I watched.
I had a great time at he party, I don't know what score I got, or who won but I do know that my first bowl was a strike with a 15lb ball!
We of course had another party in the evening, Auntie Trish's in fact.  Apparently it was a special party as well, a real landmark event!
Yeah, I heard someone say whe was 50?  Can't believe that's the case, but we'll go along with it if there's a do to go to!
Yes indeed we will, it was of course an oppurtunity to get all done up in my best princess dress and new shoes after all.
All the adults certainly enjoyed themselves, some of them maybe a little too much perhaps? 
It made it hard to nod off in the chairs though....

Still, it's nice they get to enjoy themsleves now and again.
Happy Birthday Auntie Trish!!!!!
After Saturdays very late night, Sunday wasn't exactly an action packed day.
No, still, we do like to spend all day in out PJ's now and again.
We watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on DVD in the afternoon and then had a massive row about eating roast dinners in the evening.
Which has now resulted in a complete pudding ban....thanks NED!!!

We had a some clowns visit us at school on Wednesday, even though I told Mum I was scared of the clowns with the faces it turned out I loved it.  They were really funny, even if they were sneakily teaching us maths.  This was all very much the side dish though, the main event was the return of dancing classes, finally, after the christmas lay-off.  I was at fever pitch and couldn't wait to go back.

I could, it means the return of reading club in the car while we wait for twinkle toes to finish.  I still pretty much hate reading, or writing, or anything at all that takes mental effort.

We had the maths clowns on Thursday, it was great fun Ellis you were right!

At bedtime I decided to tell Mum I wanted to sleep on my bean bag.  She told me it was a relly bad idea but if I wanted to move once she'd shut the door then that was up to me.  Once the door was shut I decamped to the beanbag of course.  I don't know what she was worried about, it was lovely and comfy.  I spent all night on it too!

Multi sports re-started after christmas as well on Thursday, numvbers are dwindling yet again though. Still, we still love it. Dad bought my new skateboard when he came to pick me up so I could skate home (and show Mr Gilham, he was pretty impressed with it I think).

Friday is PE day at school but I managed to convince Mum that I didn't need my kit, no no no kit for me.  Oh no.  Turns out I did need it, oops, I wasn't allowed to do PE so I had to stay in and do colouring instead...ha ha ha.

It was also swimming lesson day, I was raring to go of course after last weeks little wobble.
Strangely enough I was well up for it too, maybe because if I do really well this term I can maybe jack it all in. What a carrot to dangle.
Then as if there wasn't enough cool things going on it was film night at school, ace!  It was Mr Poppers Penguins as well, even though i'd already seen it I was raring to go see it again.
I went with Mum to drop Ned off in my brand new party shoes.  They're a little big but they make an excellent clip clop sound just like Mum's so i'll struggle on.
We packed some things and headed to Hampton Court Palace on Saturday morning.  I've been interested in Henry the 8th for a while so it was a good idea.
I was quite happy to wander about for a bit, once i'd had some food to kick start my day.  Only proper good for you stuff though, a Pepperami and some pringles.
We went on a guided tour with a man that worked there, he knew loads of stuff and told us some real cool things.  One of my favourites was that the palace is said to have 365 chimneys, one for every day of the year!
I was happy to demonstrate my immense strength after my power brunch:

We had a trip out of the Palace into the maze in the glorious winter sunshine.

I took lead duties:

Even if Ellis chose not to always follow my lead:

I navigated us to the middle in no time at all.

Getting out took a little longer mind you......

I took loads of pictures on my new camera of course.

And Mum took some too:

We visited a few more of the inside bits, I loved this staircase and made Dad walk me up and down it pretending that I was a Princess entering the ball:

And then we came across a rather famous ex-resident, who we thought had been dead some time:

He was very entertaining indeed, especially when he asked the grown ups questions and got silly answers!

After all the excitement of the royal visit, I decided Dad and I needed a lie down.

We headed out to the gradens which really were rather nice, but would have been nicer if we'd had a noisy motorbike or something to roar around on:

Then the best bit, instead of coming home, we went to stay in a hotel, yay, I love hotels!

So do I, you get to lounge around on big beds, watching Take Me Out and eating Minstrels:

It wasn't long until we had all nodded off..........

Which was good because it just meant breakfast time would come around sooner.

Oh yes indeed, we didn't go until quite late (by our standards anyway) but we certainly made ourselves at home, helping ourselves to whatever we fancied.  Namely sausages, beans and chocolate muffins.

And for me a massive coffee mug full of apple juice, toast, coco pops and a huge bowlfull of grapes.

We retired back to our room and I surveyed the view over London:

The we watched a programme that we hadn't seen before, called I-Carly.  We found it hilarious.....and rather surprisingly so did Dad!

We couldn't spend all day slumped on a bed watching telly though of course, we got dragged out to Richmond park.

We spotted a massive herd of Deer on the way in so we went deer hunting.

We found them too, loads of them, all belonging to father Christmas too I reckoned:

I fashioned myself some antlers of my own on the way back to the car:

And we got really into making funny shapes with shadows:

We headed back to the hotel, had we mentioned it was attached to Twickenham rugby stadium?  Thats meant there were loads of cool sculptures aroud the place:

It was time for a swim, the second best thing in my book about staying at a hotel.  I'd been desperate to go all morning.

It was a really swanky pool too, I loved it.  I loved it so much I got in the adult swimming lane and started bashing out the lengths.  Mum and Dad were amazed, I think they realise my commitment to ditching swimming lessons now!

I amazed them too, I didn't have my arm bands as Dad left them in the car and I couldn't touch the bottom of the pool as it was too deep but I was swimming about all over the place.

Dad and I spent so long preening in the showers afterwards with all the free shampooo's, conditioners, swimming costume spin driers, moisturisers and hair driers that Mum had to ring us as she wondered where we were!

We rounded out the Christmas holidays with a couple of cool days.

Tuesday was spent at Auntie Christines, we watched some films and ate some chocolate...we like!

Yeah, Mary Poppins was really good.

Wednesday Mum was off with us.  We had a proper low key 'with Mum' morning, involving her doing lots of washing and us playing loads of computer games.

When Dad got home at lunchtime we loaded up and headed to the Coral Reef for a spot of swimming.

Much excitment on my part, not that it lasted long, as soon as I got in the car I fell asleep.  Woke up quickly enough once we got there though.

Being as most schools had already gone back it was lovely and quiet in there, even if we did have to wait for the slides to open.

Slides?  Did someone say slides? I rode them all on my own, even went up the stairs without Mum or Dad .

I kept an eye on her so it was okay.

Best of all though, by half four they were completely dark inside and you had no idea where you were going, I loved it.

It was back to school on Thursday.

This was considerably cheered up with an invite to Hugo's forthcoming birthday party for me.

We weren't too upset to be going back if truth be told, even if we did say otherwise when asked.  I was right back into my reading, well for a bit anyway.

Thats more of a 'bit' than I was.

Friday's school day was cut short by me being collected at lunch time to go to the hospital for a blood test.  I was quite the celebrity leaving while veryone was having lunchtime play outside. 

I had to have a full day at school still.

I didn't get away with not having to go to the fisrst week of swimming lessons though...boo!  I didn not want to go.

I was of course really looking forward to it.  When we arrived we saw Eva (my friend from nursery).

And her brother Edward, my friend from nursery, who just so happened to be in the same class as me.  Add that to a teacher I decided I really liked and I was well up for it.  I was brilliant as well.  You'll have to take my word for it though as Dad was otherwise engaged and didn't see anything.....

Yeah, I don't know what went wrong but i decided i'd rather cuddle Dad than go in the pool.  I latched onto him and would not let go.  Even when Abi turned up and just so happened to be in the same class as me, I wasn't having it.  Luckily I had the same teacher as last rterm even though I have gone up a group so she knew I was usually really good.  Eventually I decided I would give it a go (only after exasperating Dad who didn't know what to do with me).  Within a few minutes I was loving it.

As a reward for being so brave and good at the hospital I got to choose a treat for that night, there was a difficult decision to be made between Pizza Hut and Pizza Express....the ice cream factory was too much of a temptation to resist so the Hut it was.  There were a couple of older kids from school in there as well as Louise from my class and an older girl in a really cool Frank Turner t-shirt.

We went to a butterfly farm thingy on Saturday near Swindon, we had our new christmas camera's primed and ready for action:

As soon as we went through the door we walked straight into Talia from my class at school so that was pretty cool.  We charged around together having a great time.

I took the more considered approach, the place was like a massive greenhouse to keep it warm enough for the butterflies.  There were loads of plants and stuff to make it interesting and there were butterfies everywhere, flying really close and even landing on a ladies head!

As well as the butterflies there were some other small animals, these guinea pigs were up for a cuddle:

I gave my advice on care of guinea pigs, I declared that you shouldn't punch them , or they might scratch your face.  Mum thought this was hysterical for some reason?

This was probably my favourtie specimen (My photo by the way) a massice butterlfy that looked like it was just emerging from it's cocoon:

 There was a load of fish in a pond too, they were really greedy and loved the food we threw them:

Yeah, they were proper greedy, splashing all over each other:

There was also an outside paddock, there were some very vocal Otters, goats, pigs and various birds.  Best of all though was my turkey friend here:

I am actually able to speak turkese you know!  We had quite a conversation, me and Noel.  All the way around the paddock in fact.

There was also Meerkats, lovely lovley meerkats.  There were a few playing outside, but most of them were all in their house huddled up in a massive ball of fur, ears and tails.  I loved them.

I loved the one on gaurd, when he stood up, his head disappeared into the heat lamp shade, we were surprised he didn't burn his nose!

As usual with these winter visits to places like this we were the only ones there at afternoon feeding time so the keeper lady gave us a special guided tour of the animals.

The Otters got raw fish, peanuts and boild eggs for dinner.

The meerkats got a lot of fruit and veg to eat (my kind of dinner).

And then the finale, she let the super muddy pigs out of their pen for a run around the paddock.  We loved it, even if we were mildly terrified of them, what with their size and well, muddiness!

Sunday was a bit of a snooze fest as we got dragged around some well boring shops, the highlight had to be watching Take me Out on the computer as the series had started again on Saturday night.  Mum and I are very pleased about that.

Then it was back to school on Monday for a proper full week.  I had another very uncharacteristic wobble and didn't want Mum to leave me there.  We're having challenge week this week with a visiting clown apparently...I hate clowns......

And i've been embroiled in a bit of a party tussle.  Tegan, Alastair and Tilly are having a joint birthday party in a few weeks time and Tilly has been telling me i'm not invited.  This is in rather stark contrast to Tegan and Alastair who most definatley want me there.......I think she may end up disappointed on this one!

We broke up for Christmas on the Tuesday.  It was a tough day at school, eating what was left of the party food and playing games until lunchtime when we got to go home.

Except I didn't go home, I went to my friend Evelyn's house instead.

And while she was gone Dad and I did Lego, and played Tony Hawks Pro-Skater on the playstation.

It was the first time i'd been home with a friend to play after school and I loved it.  Evelyn had a lovely little doggie to play with and an older brother who produced art work to order (my dragon is now stck to the dishwasher).

When we arived to pick her up it seemed most of John Rankin school was hanging out there, cool.  Even better was having a play on the drum kit...we took some shifting to go home!

Mum had gone out for another work do so we picked up a few bits and bobs from Waitrose for tea (including some last minute chocolate tree decorations) and headed home to watch a bit of worlds strongest man on telly before bed.

Mum had Wednesday morning off with us, we had a lovely lazy time. 

We picked her up from work in the evening and had to go Christmas food shopping.  We were remarkably good this year.

Even if Mum tired of the whole thing very quickly and wanted to get home.

She had all day off with us on Thursday.  We went to see my old friend Ron in the morning but he was out which was a shame. 

Once Dad was home we went to the cinema to watch Arthur Christmas.

After a brief confrontation with a woman who accused Dad of sitting in her seats (turns out her tickets were for the previous day) we settled in to watch the film with another huge portion of John Rankin kids who just so happened to be sitting in the row in front.

The film was brilliant and we really loved it.

After that we went out for tea, to Pizza Express.  I really loved it, garlic dough balls, Pizza's and glass bottles of coke.

I didn't, wouldn't eat a dough ball and my bolognese wasn't spaghetti, just rubbish normal pasta.

We've added another job to the bedtime regime with the introduction of hot water bottles, here's my seasonal effort:

I started all this off when Den and Gail came to visit and bought me a lovely massive cat hot water bottle.  He's proper snuggly.

Mum took us round to Auntie Christines on Friday morning, we had a job to finish off, decorating her christmas cake.

We did a lovely job of course.  Dad met up with us when he had finished work for christmas but he hadn't won anything in the raffle to share with us (some sweets or biscuits would have been good).

Then it was Christmas eve, with the levels of excitement peaking nicely.

We had our annual group outing to the pub, there was a magnificent turnout this year.

Us kids had a great time, the weather was pretty good so we could play out in the garden as well in the pool and darts room, with it's lovely chalkboard:

Once we were home we had to track Santa on NORAD of course and make a few last minute preparations for the big day.

There was also the matter of leaving a little something for Santa and Rudolph and putting the santa please stop here sign outside.  Neither of which went particularly well.

Yeah, first off the new santa cake stand we'd bought toppled over and broke and then Mum tried to bang the santa sign in using a brick...which obvioulsy didn't end too well.

Dad was not amused at all:

And then it was the big day!

We didn't even get up until nearly 8 o'clock.

Even though i'd woken up every hour on the hour most of the night.  Or so I was claiming anyway.

First job was to get the stocking emptied and their contents opened:

If the stockings were anything to go by, the main event around the tree was going to be amazing.

Yeah, the stockings were great, so good in fact that I didn't even venture downstairs for a sneaky look for ages.

But eventually we did make our way downstairs:

Yes, there were plenty of things to open and get excited about:

Even Mum and Dad opening there boring old peoples stuff wasn't that much of a chore this year (maybe because Mum had so much Lindor....)

This year saw a lot of Christmas loose ends tidied up, firstly there was the game Pig Goes Pop which i'd been after for at least three years:

As well as the chocolate coin makers we'd been after for a good while.

Thats not to say all our other stuff wasn't totally brilliant of course as it was.

Yeah, all of it!

Then of course there was my massive tube of Jaffa Cakes:

Auntie Trish was coming round for a 'sleep over' so we were well excited when she turned up, she'd made a real effort and looked very well turned out.

Especially with the sackfull of goodies she'd bought with her too (not all of which were bottles of red wine either).

Soon after Alan and Hayley turned up too, we were all set for lunch: 

Of course we'd eaten a fair amount of chocolates so we weren't that fussed about dinner to be honest.

No, we picked at a few little bits and pieces but that was about as far as it went.

Dad must have decided to have a day off from nagging us about what we hadn't eaten as well which was a result as it meant we could concentrate on pudding.

Since there was no Great Grandma the decision was made to not have a Christmas Pudding this year as no one else really likes it.

This years centrepiece was to be our chocolate yule log (expertly made with precision by Mum rather than thrown in a bowl and mixed up by Dad).

It was Ellis' and myself's job to decorate it of course with the truly magnificent cake decorations that Auntie Christine had managed to get for us after we couldn't find any, ANYWHERE!

Auntie Christine, Saviour of Christmas dinner...hooray!

Aside from a small squabble over 'artistic differences' we did a pretty good job I reckon.

Yeah, Ned banned the slightly grumpy looking snowman and a sign bearing the word 'Xmas':

Of course with the lack of Christmas pud we had nothing to set fire to at the table.  Dad wasn't too happy about this and dug a left over sparkler out of the garage to shove in the chocolate log.

A great idea in principle...except that it sparked all over his lemon tart and stunk the house out with thick grey smoke.

Even with the aid of my brussel sprout lunch, the whoopee cushion took a right old battering, the first present casualty, lasting only until lunchtime:

Grandad and Anne arrived after dinner, it's always lovely to see them, especially at Christmas as Grandad makes a great target for screwed up balls of wrapping paper!

Quite by accident we ended up with a girls and a boys sofa.  Our girls one looked nicer and smelled nicer than the boys one of course.  We settled down and watched the Gruffalo's child for half an hour:

Then the telly was off and it was time for tea.

Didn't eat much of that either, ha ha.

Then it was time for a few games, first off it was a Yahtzee lesson with Auntie Trish:

And when Owen and Laura came round games reached a whole new level with Doggie Doo.

You load the dog's mouth with food, and then throw the dice to squeeze the handle, with each squeeze comes a very satisfying farting sound.

And after enough squeezes the food become a poo and drops out of the dogs bottom, first one with three poo's is the winner:

This saw us quite nicely up to bedtime.

We got to go off to our normal beds while Auntie Trish got to have the exclusive and seasonal 'pine scented' bedroom (the lounge on a sofa).  I let her have my lovely Hello Kitty fleece blanket.

Boxing day, a time to digest what had gone on and spend some time with our new stuff.

As well as having a visit from Den and Gail too.

There was a lot of Lego built.

Quite bit of  slouching about too.

We said goodbye to Trish who finally went over the edge and couldn't take any more, thanks for coming!

I cracked the whip for Dad to finish my Ninjago temple while the rest of us watched my diary of a wimpy kid DVD:

Dad and I had a quick trip down the park just before it got dark, I wanted to take my newly adorned bike out with my camera and cuddly toys in the basket:

Coconut loved going down the slide!

After two days solid in the house, Mum broke ranks and escaped to work on Tuesday.

We had a lazy morning and then ventured out to meet her at lunchtime for some proper decent food at last...McDonalds.

Once lunch was done and dusted we headed to the skatepark at Greenham to try out my new board and super cool new helmet:

I also took my tennis racket and cool coloured tennis balls to have a whack about with, I loved it:

I'm not so sure Dad did though as he had to keep running accross the field to retrieve the balls i'd hit.

I took my scooter for the skatepark and my football for the field.  Dad did a good job a retrieving that too.

Auntie Christine came round with Laura and Darcey later on, that was lovely of course.

It was, it also made sure the next few years of entertainment have been covered with Mario and Sonic at the 2012 Olympics for the Wii:

On Wednesday we had another park outing with my fully loaded basket.

And another tennis wacking session, it's made my arm hurt actually.

And we also tried out our chocolate coin makers:

The results were surprisingly professional actually, but the best bit was licking the containers clean of course:

On Thursday it was a second trip to the cinema.  This time for Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 - Chipwrecked! 

We loved it of course and this time we didn't have to argue with anyone about our seats.

In the afternoon we had to watch the Darts on the telly because there were a few reprobates we know that went.

We watched for ages but only caught occasional glimpses of them.

I gave Dad a special treat by agreeing to go shopping with him in the evening.  It was great actually, we looked at cool stuff and I made sure we got loads of proper food like Pepperami and square crisps.

Friday the call was made, it was ice skating time.  I was really pleased about this, i'd been going on about it for ages as I remembered we went last year.

I did not want to .  No.  Not at all.  Not for me.  I took this photo on my super smart new camera before we went in, while we all still had full use of our limbs and didn't need any crutches:

Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty to go.  Dad fell on me during one fall which I managed to shrug off but the second fall involving Andy had me in tears and carried of the ice by the attendant.

While Ellis was having a mare, I was loving it.  I was doing laps and laps on my own, not even holding onto the sides either.

After a quick time out, I was back on it, this time flanked by two minders: 

Things went well, but would have gone better if maybe i'd been more interested in actually skating rather than performing ballet moves as we shuffled around.

Andy had decided to take on camera duties instead:

So thats skating taken care of for another year and hopefully Andy is mobile again.

That takes us up to New Years Eve then.

Yup, another low key day, just another trip to the park where we enjoyed a few early fireworks in the fading daylight.

And of course another tennis wackathon.

In the evening we went to Abi and Fayes house, along with Kimi and Marney as well as all the associated grown ups.

The little ones are all quite mad, I did my best to avoid them, ha ha.

One by one we all crashed out in various parts of the house.

Until only I was awake, it had turned 2012 and we were celebrating by playing Rat-A-Tat cat (a card game).  We had two games, I won them both, schooling all the grown ups.  I don't think i'll be allowed to play again....

After a monster lie in on new years day we had a burst of energetic fun with Mum's Just Dance 3 game on the Wii.

Apart from a few near misses it was great fun, even if we did find it a bit tiring.

Mum was back to work on Monday so we took her out for lunch again, this time to the pub.

It couldn't come soon enough for me either, due to an administration error, i'd had no breakfast!!!

We had a play on victoria park afterwards, we really love it down there, even when it is cold and muddy!

That brings us up to a our traditional monday cut off point for updates I think?  Things seem to go a bit haywire over Christmas and we don't have any idea what day it really is.

Anyway, we'd like to say a really massive thank you to everyone we've seen over the Christmas period, for the company, the presents, the food and the drink and wish you all a happy new year!