Tuesday

Our first week of swimming with the school, how exciting.  Except we didn't do thst much actual swimming as we were getting put into groups.  For the record i'm in the group halfway up the big pool.  I also got into trouble because I wore my tankini.  The not we got home only said no bikini's so I reckon I ought to be okay anyway.  Anyway, I struggle with one piece costumes, they never fit right.  If they fit round the bum, they are too short in the body.  If they are long enough in the body they're loose round the bum.

Netball club was back on, even though we have still lost a corner of the court due to the builders compound.

And then it was my first week back at gymnastics in our new gym.  It still isn't quite finished but it's really cool.  I was the first of the several people in my class who go to KD to have a session there so that made it extra cool.

Wednesday

I enjoyed my Viola lesson a lot more today, we're learning a new song.

We found out that Mr Gilham will be at Rhos with us, and better still i'm going to be in his group.  

Team Kennet again, hammering it down with rain again, dodging the puddles in the darkness on the way to the gym again........

Thursday

I've got back into Age of Empires, but it didn't end well after tea.  I spent ages building up an extensive army but then bottled it and didn't want to take them to war.  I tried to get Mum or Dad to do it for me but they didn't want to know as they said i'd blame them if they lost the battle.  In the end I just switched the PC off and went to bed.

Friday

Just on the quiet, between you and me, I was starting to get very slight jitters about the Rhos trip.....nothing I can't overcome of course.

Andy came round for tea, we talked him into oblivion.

I think they booked a holiday at some point in a villa.

But the main thing was a game of 7 Wonders, Mum won again!!!  But I think Anday is a convert.

Saturday

Up early and off to the cinema.

But not early enough on my part of course.....i'm not great at getting going in the mornings as we all know.

It nearly cost us a stop at the shop to buy or sweets for goodness sake!

We watched a Film called Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

It was pretty funny, but I think the grown ups liked it more than us kids really.

I spent the afternoon playing Minecraft.

And I had a nice slump.

We did have another game of 7 Wonders, which quite unbelievably Dad won!

I sat at the table with them doing my art project homework.

Then it was roller skating time, I was under strict instructions to take it easy so I didn't injure myself before the Rhos trip.

So it was a good job it was me who fell over and hurt their knee wasn't it!  I did recover enough to skate the Ellie and Bella from school.

I did have a little tumble, but played it down so I didn't get into trouble.  I also did very well in the race this week, i'm finding some speed!

Sunday

Well the big day was finally here, our trip to Rhos-Y-Gwaliau, the highlight of my primary school years as far as I can see. I was up pretty early and crammed in as much Minecraft as I could.  My bag had miraculously packed itself, all I needed to sort out were a last few essentials (horsey top trumps, Nerf top trumps and a Rubiks snake).

We took him up to school, his whole class were hanging about, bags and children everywhere.

I signed myself in, got told off for having too many sweets for the end of week party to hand in and then made my way to the coach, where Dylan was waiting for me:

I gave Ellis, Dad and Mum a massive cuddle each  and then got on the coach.  We got sat down about halfway back, behind Ella and Rebecca and next to Tilly and Maisy, poor girls, they were in for a tiring trip sat near us.

The coach sat there for ages.

We gave the assembled grown ups plenty of waves while we waited for the off.  Mum made a lame attempt at making a heart sign with her hands which was super embarrassing.

Finally they were off.

Yeah, at last! I quickly made the heart sign for Mum as we pulled away our epic journey.  I wasn't really looking forward to this bit.  Apparently it's a five hour drive with plenty of toilet stops.......no doubt i'll fill you in on all the details on my return.....

So, that was it.  Ned was gone and as soon as we went home things seemed unusually quiet without him around.  I decided that Ian would be the best Ned substitute for the week.  So we took him to Pets at Home in the car:

It was ace there, I so want a pet but as usual the answer was no.

Then we took him home for a game of Minecraft:

And a game of 7 Wonders:

But it's really not the same as having Ned about.  Mealtimes are over in a flash and i've got no one to argue or fight with.  I was missing him already so decided i'd write him a little letter and print the Ian pictures off for him too.

We did get a text from the school to say they had arrived sagely and were getting settled in which was nice.

Monday

Well it was a strangely quiet morning with just me to get ready with Mum.  I was pretty timely for once though so that was a pleasant side affect.

We had to go on a walk around Newbury today, I wasn't over excited about it as it was really cold.  We went to see some noteable Newbury landmarks like the church and the Corn Exchange.  My sentence on the Corn Exchange was very insightful, it read:

The Corn Exchange used to be a Corn Exchange.

I think that pretty much summed up my enthusiasm for the whole thing.

After school dance club was a whole different matter though, All about that bass was much better than last weeks uptown funk and I was well into it.

We had a curry for tea that was a bit on the spicy side so it was a good job we had some Ben and Jerry's to cool things down.  I couldn't believe we were eating such things without Ned around, he'd be gutted to miss out.

He wouldn't have been gutted to miss out on an early evening walk thats for sure, it was cold but a lovely clear night for star gazing with some really good twinkly ones.  I bet it looked even better from North Wales.....

Tuesday
Well it had to come eventually, it was back to school day.
We didn't really mind too uch, we'd missed our mates if truth be told.
We started the new term off well by earning our 100th marble, entitling us to a reward.  We've decided on a pyjama party for next friday.

Wednesday
 A bit more grumbling today.
I'm not particularly enjoying viola lessons anymore.  I love to play it, I just don't enjoy the lesson oart of it.  I like to freestyle it on my own.
And I didn't get picked to be a guide to show around the current year 2 parents.  Although I was apparently first reserve, yeah, whatever.
Team Kennet resumed tonight and we were well excited to try out our new trainers.
I was so glad to be back and doing some sport again as most after school clubs aren't kicking off until next week.

Thursday
After yesterdays whingeing, it turned out that I could be a Year 2 Prospective parent guide after all.  I really enjoyed it and tried to give them as much information as I could.  They didn't have any questions to ask at the end of our tour so I reckon I must have done a good job?


Friday
It's been a few entries since I have mentioned our trip to Rhos hasn't it?  Thats not to say it hasn't been the single most exciting thing to ever happen, i've been so excited about it.  We spent today with a map, following a 6 mile route around the west of Newbury to hone our map reading skills in preparation of our trip.  I loved it, no doubt helped by the fact I kind of knew the route anyway form our various bike excursions.  I got into a bit of a debate with my teacher as to which way we ought to go, I turned out to be right!

Saturday
Having said we ought to go to Bath for a visit for a good while now, we consulted our diaries and decided this weekend was a good option.
So we headed West for Bath.
We love all things Roman so were well up for this one.
We got parked up, I did some more map reading practice and we headed into the centre of town.
It was pretty quiet which was nice.  We spent ages in Smiggle looking at all their cool stuff.
And we also went in a few outdoorsy sort of shops looking for a winter coat for me.  We didn't find one we liked but we did try a lot of daft fluffy hats and things on.
It was way past our usual weekend lunchtime when we finally hit Greggs (12:15).
I love Greggs.
Then we went to the Baths.
We picked up our quest cards and pencils and we were off.
The main bath itself looked pretty uninviting it has ot be said, pretty green and murky looking water.
Although the steam coming off it on a cold day looked pretty enticing....
The museuem side of things was pretty good, we certainly enjoyed looking for the answers to our questions.
The coolest thing about it all though is the fact that the hot spring is still active and runs beneath the visitor centre:

And the sacred pool where it actully surfaces bubbles and steams quite actively.

We loved imagining what it all looked like in it's heyday and pointing out where the floors and walls would have been.

We finished up at the Baths and then set about the gift shop.

Oh we do love a gift shop.

Especially if they stock pencil sharpener working trebuchet's!

We also got a certificate for completing our challenge worksheet and then had to face the hardest decision of the day, whether we were part of the Roman Empire or still Barbarians.

We eventually plumped for.....Barbarians!

We wandered back through town to see what we could find, a branch of Lush.

It stank to high heaven, Dad refused to even come in and stood outside.

We quite enjoyed it, the stuff was colourful and really smelly.

Some of it even bubbled up in a bowl:

We also went to Waterstones where I had some vouchers to spend.  After evaluating the board games and the jigsaws I settled on some cool milk shake rubbers and some other bits and bobs.

We eventually made our way back to the car and set about finding our hotel.

With all the one way streets it seemed to be miles away.....

The hotel was pretty cool, even if there wasn't a pool.

There was a revolving door though, and if you really went for it you could get it spinning at a hell of a speed.

We were soon in our room, it was pretty cool, if a little bit small.

That was no problem, we had a bit of a bundle with Mum.

She fights dirty though and starts tickling which isn't on.

We had a slump for a while, watched some TV and then discussed our options for tea.

We had two choices really, go to pizza hut, or get a pizza hut takeaway.

I didn't fancy walking back in to town.

And I didn't fancy being diddled out of the full Pizza Hut experience.

We ended up walking into town, although to be fair, on foot it only took about 15 minutes and was much closer than the car journey had suggested.

We got a cool table by the window after a short wait and got to see the early evening comings and goings of Bath city centre.

We wandered back to the Hotel and after another brief tussle slumped down on the bed to watch Take Me Out with a bag of minty matchmakers.

Hadn't had them before, they were lush!

Sunday

Hotel breakfast time!

Yep, self service too. 

There was chocolate muffins, the perfect breakfast food.

I preferred cereal, toast from the cool toast machine and a croissant.

All washed down with a mug of hot chocolate.

Yeah, surprisingly pleasant it was too seeing as it came out of a machine.

We went back to our room, had a few chapters of our books read by Dad and then a few games of farmyard donkey and Happy Families.

Then we packed up and checked out, heading towards Alexandra Park.

It was at the top of a massive hill.

Yeah, and there was a rather good little park to play on.  The best bit though was the massive amount of leaves blown up against the fence.

Yeah, we ran though them, rolled in them, buried ourselves in them and best of all threw them at each other:

We had a walk around, the views out over Bath were great:

We like to see where we've been.

We then made our way home, in time for a nice afternoon of homework.

Monday

I was up nice and early and managed to complete the Skylanders game I had for christmas.

At school I had a falling out with Amie which put in me in a fragile mood.  I didn't enjoy after school dance, especially with the song this week being Uptown Funk.  I hate that song with a passion.

I had my first cross country session of the season after school and the weather was filthy. Wind, rain the works.  We were totally soaked and covered in muck by the end of it.  For some reason Dad ordered me into the shower as soon as I got home.  Once I was cleaned up I continued with my epic homework project, a diary recount of our map reading exercise last week.  I've gone a bit overboard and by the end of the evening i'd managed two sides of paper and still wasn't finished....

Tuesday 23rd

Christmas was well and truly under way, what with no school and Mum at home with us for a couple of days before the main event.

I helped get things ready by helping cleaning and tidying up.

I wasn't quite so helpful it has to be said.

Once Dad was home we headed for the shop to get some contraband for a cinema visit.

Yeah, we went into our new(ish) local CoOp as well by way of a change.

We were going to see Paddington.  The trailers looked brilliant and we were almost as excited to see it as Mum and Dad were, apparently it was on telly when they were kids all those years ago?

We had our usual seats, last row, aisle in front even though Dad initially booked the tickets for the wrong day!

The film was great fun.

And Paddington was seriously cute, if you haven't seen it you really should!

Wednesday 24th

Christmas eve and Mum was off again.

So we got to help her make our christmas day pudding, Delia's flourless chocolate Roulade.

The recipe was quite straight forward and i'm quite sure it clearly stated to try and cover the entire kitchen in cocoa powder.

So it was just as well Dad's work finished unusually early for a christmas eve so he could get the full benefit of our efforts.

And to disapprove of the sheer volume of utensils and bowls we'd got through.

We were glad to see him so soon though, it was a great surprise.

We had lunch and then went off to the pub to meet up with the gang.
Or what was left of them what with everybody feeling poorly with various colds and what have you.

Yeah, even I was on the ropey side.

There was still a reasonable turnout though and it was good fun.
Yeah, we had a kick about and wound Alan up.
We had a plan to go for Pizza Express but quite honestly I didn't feel up to it.
So we settled on getting a takeaway pizza from the Hut while Mum and Dad had a chinese.  It was quite a novelty getting a takeaway pizza.
We had a visit from Den and Gail which was lovely.
Then we set about the Christmas Eve tasks, Santa's buffet:

And the sign out on the lawn.
We went to bed reasonably early and were soon asleep.
Yeah, no late night excitement driven anxiety for us this year.
Well, not much anyway, in fact, that was down to me feeling poorly rather than anything else.

Thursday 25th

So the big day was finally here.
It was, and for once it was me who was up first and keen to get things underway, well, it was nearly 8:30!
But she had to wait for me to haul myself out of bed, which is most unlike me.
I did unwrap a few things from my stocking before Ned eventually caught up.

Then we went full bore on the stockings on Mum and Dads bed.
The stockings were excellent this year it has to be said.
A quick downsatairs check was carried out to make sure it was worth our while venturing down.
Of course it was:

We got stuck in, well Ellis did.
Yeah, I was sorting everyting out.
After hoping for years and years I finally got my Lego castle:

Likewise my Orbeez footspa:

The latest installment of Skylanders (Trap Team):

A lovely new robust and waterproof grown ups camera:

And a touch of glamour with my feather boa:

It was a pretty chaotic scene:

I continued in my helpful way, dealing with the sprouts for lunch:

And I supervised the decoration of our yule log:

And here it is, in all it's glory:

Of course it couldn't all be fun.  We had to have a christmas dinner.

Just a glorified roast really, but with rubbish turkey instrad of a decent meat.

There were pigs in blankets though I suppose:

In all honesty I still felt pretty rough so didn't even eat my pudding.

And I didn't eat any sprouts at all, despite my efforts peeling them.So once that was over and done with it was wave two of present unwrapping and then time to sit and digest what we'd got.

And lose a Skylanders figure.  Thus triggering off a search of two rubbish sacks full of wrapping paper which was okay, and one full of far more unpleasant kitchen type waste. The Skylander was not found....but at least we knew we hadn't thrown him out.
Next up, time to visit Auntie Christines.  We were dead excited about this, we'd get to see Darcey!
And Owen, Kirsty, Laura, Ian, Trish, Slim and Tracey...epic!

But aside from all the presents which were of course brilliant, the best bit was getting to see everyone.

And Auntie Christines crazy present swapping game which she absoloutley did make up the rules for as she went along.  It was brilliant, I was so pleased that I ended up with a fold flat packing crate.  

Dad wasn't quite so happy with his very tasteful necklace.

Friday 26th

Boxing day was a nice quiet affair, a decent lay in and then time to further investigate our gifts.
I loved doing a bit of scratch art:

And I finished off my Lego Castle.  I was well pleased with it.
We watched The Boy in the Dress in the evening on telly.
We had already had the book and loved that.

Then we tried to play some board games, Hotel Tycoon ended up in a bit an argument though....woops.

Saturday 27th

Mum was back to work today which was rubbish.
But usual for this time of year.
We did ride into town for lunch to meet up with her though.
It was nice to get some fresh air and get the old legs going again.
Once she was home and we'd had tea it was time to tackle the I'm a celebrity get me out of here Iceland board game that Mum had bought and put in the freezer a while ago.
We'd been going on about doing it for ages.
There were the treats, Chocolate Brownies and Marsh Mallows.
And there were the not so treats....wriggly worms, witchety grubs and vomit balls (crab stick types things, cold garlic flavoured pasta and sour profiteroles) along with various grim dips.
I had an early run of bad luck and had to eat plenty of the grim stuff, which Dad found hilarious.  Especially when I ran off to the kitchen bin, wretching and heaving to spit it out.
I did really well, quite honestly i'd had enuogh of the brownies and the marsh mallows.

He didn't find it quite so funny whne it was his turn to cop for some either....
Mum didn't exactly enjoy it much either.......
We tried another game of Hotel Tycoon, which ended in another strop.

Sunday 28th

We went to Alans for lunch, another christmas dinner.
But poor old Alan and Hayley were struggling with winter colds and what have you and they looked pretty poorly.
At least we didn't get the blame for infecting them this time though.
We also had more presents!
We didn't stay too late and went home for a third try of Hotel Tycoon, which again ended in ill feeling.  I should point out that it's not the games fault, it's really good.
It was due to our fragile state of mind....and lack of sleep?

Monday 29th

Owen had aquired tickets to the races that he couldn't use and very kindly gave them to us.
We tried to round up a group and manged to get Andy, Ben, Rach, Kimi and Marny on board.
It was a lovely sunny day, made all the better by having our frineds there, winning lots of money......
....and best of all my new flask for Rhos that Dad had decided to test for me by filling with hot chocolate as well as bringing a packet of chocolate digestives.
They went down a treat.

Tuesday 30th

Hmmm, the less said about today the better I think.
Yeah, our endless squabbling finally took it's toll on Dad today. He wasn't happy.
We met Mum for lunch which offerd him some brief respite.

Wednesday 31st
The last day of the year!
We were Determined to go out on a good note after yesterdays disappointment.
We had a lazy start to the day and then in the afternoon went ice skating.
Yeah, Andy came out of his self imposed retirement.
And kimi and Marny came along too for their first go.  I'm pleased to announce that everyone walked out again afterwards under their own steam, with fully functioning limbs, so I think you can call it a sucess!
Yeah, we all did very well.  We even had a quick go round once the ice scaping machine had been out to give the rink a polish....it was sooooo smooth!

Being as it was the last day of the year we had a gathering to go to.

Round to Abi and Fayes with Kimi and Marny too.  
The grown ups had a lavish lunch and us kids charged about the house like a heard of rhino's or something.

We got to stay up until past midnight which is always cool

Thursday

Massive lay in today to really bring 2015 in.

Yeah, well needed too.

Alan came round in the afternoon and we tried out mums new game 7 wonders.  It was brilliant, i'm hooked and the post game analysis went on for quite some time.

Friday

We started today with a dose of real class.

Yeah, didn't we just....McDonalds breakfast drive thru.

With us two still in our dressing gowns wrapped up in the back of the car.

Next up was a trip to the oasis in Swindon, we hadn't been swimming for ages.

It was pretty quiet so we got to have loads of goes on the slides and stay in long enough for two lots of wave machine action.

Which we enjoyed on the other side of the rope in the deep end.

It was epic holding onto the wall so close to the wave machine itself.

We took lunch, a picnic of sorts, in Tesco's carpark continuing our well classy day.

Once mum was home from work we fired up Dads new Just Dance game he got for christmas on my Xbox.

You don't even need controllers, its clever enough to just recognise you.

And give you a sped up highlights video of everyones moves, this was hilarious.

Saturday

We had to go shopping.

Yeah, boring shopping...in Reading!!!

How lame, especially when we decided against going on the train due to it terminating at Reading west because of the work on Reading station.

So car it was, but we went crazy and firstly decided to park at the super expensive Oracle car park and then in a feat of unrivalled decadence we also got the car washed by the valeters there.

Well, it was utterly filthy and we got dirty hands every time we closed the doors or boot.

So we trudged round town for a bit, it wasn't too bad really, we took our rubik's snakes to keep us entertained and helped mum pick a new winter coat.
We were done and dusted and back home in time to go roller skating which was a real bonus.
Yeah, we hadn't been for what felt like ages.
We were home in time to watch the start of the new series of take me out, perfect.

Sunday

Had a heavy session on the Skylanders today, making good progress through the game.
Anne came for lunch which was nice.
We played one of my new games Scaramble the egg after lunch, it was really funny calling out things on the subject given on the cards.

Monday
Last day of the holidays.
And I felt poorly.....fortunatley Mum had the day off so it was cuddle o'clock.
And a right old XBox session for me. As well as skylanders i'd spent my Xbox voucher on a game called Trials Fusion which is hugley entertaining, if a bit frustrating at times.

So that finally gets the Christmas period covered.
It was a weird one this year, what with me feeling ropey and it only being us four for lunch.
But it was good fun on the whole and we got some truly epic presents from everyone.
Yeah, we certainyl did, thanks everyone!

Tuesday
We had a trip to St Johns church for a carol service rehearsal.
I reckon this was my first trip to a church, the stained glass windows were pretty epic it has to be said. 
We were back to school in time for the last netball club session of the year.  I look forward to this, netball and a buffet.  Proper buffet too, Kit kat's, crisps, santa lollies and a big chocolate Santa to take home.
After tea we took charge of making the pigs in blankets for christmas dinner.  
Because we are pork enthusiasts, we hand twisted full size chipolata's into cocktail sausages size, cut them and then wrapped them in bacon.
We packed them neatly back into the sausage packet and shoved them in the freezer, ready for the big day.

Wednesday
I was poorly today, headachey, temperature and all that.  So it was a day snuggled up on the sofa with Mum for me.
Yeah, lucky you Ellis, I still had to go to the carol concert.  Actually it was pretty enjoyable.  Us year 6's all had a line to deliver, I did mine very well without the need to read it off a slip of paper like most.  As usual though, the musical pieces left a bit to be desired...ahem.
Then the second sporting highlight of the season, the Team Kennet Christmas session, this years theme, Irish Christmas.  Well, we left it a bit late to sort out anything proper for fancy dress, but another one of Auntie Trish's hats was a good compromise, being unquestionably christmassy, and also a nice emerald green colour:

The sweet dash relay race was the highlight of my athletics year.  And as Dad remarked later, I didn't treat it as a half hearted jog eithether, still full bore.  The sweets were either balanced on a cone, tossed into the air or held as high as possible by a coach, they loved it as much as we all did I think.  I also managed to trade away a few dodgy bounties I didn't much fancy, result!

I was pretty surprised when I was announced as third place in the boys for my hat:

Still, the prize was brilliant, a little santa medal and a selection box, I was made up.

Thursday
School bazaar, fudge day!
And fortunatley I was feeling a lot better and went back to school.
Once we'd worked out a soloution for a packaging problem and got it on sale the fudge sold out in seconds.
Dad also got told by one of our teaching asssistants, Mrs Jezzard that i'd been brilliant making the fudge in a tidy organized and safe matter and getting my team to all join in.  He was very impressed.
It was really busy in there, loads of hustle and bustle and excitement.  You could see the real hit products were the edible ones.....I managed to snag the last two candy canes on a stall.  Then I noticed Daniel loking a bit down in the dumps.  It turns out he'd lost his money and couldn't buy anything.  I didn't have any money left, but I gave him a candy cane....he was very pleased. 
I spent the last part of the afternoon trying to sell the remaining cards we had left on the stall to maximise our revenue.
Then when there was no one left to sell through we headed home.

And fired up the computer for some Cool Maths Games action.

And a lot of cuddling on the sofa, I still wasn't 100%

Friday
The last day of term had arrived.
It was party day, such as that was....
Yeah, I think we had a biscuit as well as our usual packed lunch.
We had some crisps, some biscuits and some sweets so fared a little better.
Anyway, there was a chance for some more disco action so that was good.
And an early finish to the day.
As the doors opened and I ventured out into the playground, I realised that I was actually the first one out of the whole school.  I quickly decided that i'd be the first one off the premises and threw my bag at Dad as I sprinted along the path and out of the school gates, my arms held aloft as I crossed the line like i'd won the 100 metres at the Olympics.  I then had to shuffle back to Dad in the playground to get my bag back and wait for Ellis.
I wasn't far behind, and I had also been re-united with both of my school shoes which was a result after one of them had been missing for a week or so.

Then we loaded the car up as quickly as we could.

Gathered up anything we thought we might want.

Went to the toilet.

And went to pick Mum up from work.

Then Andy from his house and headed for Cornwall.

Yes, another trip down West.  After last years stay at the golf club lodge we thought we'd go again.

But this time we also got Kimi and Marny and Abi and Faye along too.

This was no August afternoon, so there was hardly any traffic about and we were there and in the lodge by 6.

And there was pizza and dough balls on the table by 6:20.

Then it was on to a hide and seek session.

Hide and seek is epic in these lodges, there are so many hiding places.
We got together with everyone and decided this was all great fun.
I handed round some of my hand made fudge for everyone to try and we played a few games of Pit.
Which is always a nice, quiet affair.....CORNER!!!!

Saturday
After a lazy morning, looking out of the windows, watching the crazy lambs and a few hide and seek sessions we headed out for a walk.
Yeah, the reverse Constantine/Treyarnon loop.
The first part of course involved walking over the grassy roof of the single storey lodges.
Which also provided a great opurtunity to retrieve previously lost golf balls from the undergrowth.  I had a plan to collect loads of them and sell them to Andy, Nick and Ben.
The path down to the beach was pretty overgrown in places but it just added to the adventure of it all.
I think it must be the only time we've ever seen Constantine Bay with no one on the beach or in the sea:

We ventured right down the sea of course.

Maybe a little too far, I think we all got water over the top of our wellies.

We carried on round the headland to Treyarnon.
Gary's shop was shut.
But Dad had a sneaky packet of chocolate hob nobs that we shared out.
And then we carried on up the hill and through the campsite, which was of course, deserted.
Yeah, it's so weird with no one about.
Especially with lots of caravans having been taken away to be replaced with new ones.
We got back to the lodges and sorted out some lunch.
Then I went out for another golf ball forage.
Then it was slump in front of the telly time, watching Arthur Christmas, more for the adults than us kids I think.
We had a surprise visit from John, Sarah and Connie which was lovely.  

I force fed them fudge!

And I took Connie for a little walk up and down outside on her lead, she's so lovely.

As it started to get dark we got in the cars and drove to Treyarnon, Ben had bought a box of fireworks with him.

I don't think i've ever seen Dad quite so exciteable.

So there we were, in the pitch black of the beach letting off fireworks, brilliant.

There were quite a few too, we loved running them over to the launch zone.

Back to the lodge again for a brown food buffet.
And lots of puddings to sample.
I took some photo's:

More hide and seek.
And more Pit:

It turned into quite a late night (midnight), with Dad trying play crowd pleasers on his Ipod....


Sunday
I woke up feeling awful, temperature, headache, all that nonsense.
I woke up, eventualy at half past ten!
We didn't do much in the morning.Until we made our way to the clubhouse for lunch.
We had an amzaing table, right along the patio windows with views out accross the golf course and then the sea.
Shame I was too ill to appreciate it, or eat anything.
I had a spaghetti bolognese that even came with a little pot of parmesan.
I did manage a bit of Dad's sticky toffee pudding though.
Once lunch was done and dusted it was sadly time to head home, which I don't think anyone was that keen on.

Monday
We had a day arranged with Autntie Christine and  Darcey.
I really didn't want them catching anything off me and was quite worried about the whole thing.
We made gingerbread houses, with varying degrees of success:

Mine needed building as well as decorating.

Whereas mine was pre-fabricated and only need adornment:

We had a lovely day, thanks Auntie Christine and Darcey!
We went home via the Tesco photo counter to pick up a top secret gift we'd made for Mum...........