1-7 May 2017
Every week from now on I am going to try to do a little summary, and this is my first. I can’t write a long post about everything I do because I do so many things (!) so instead this will be a little record of things I’ve done.
As you know, I now have a place at Guides and I go there once a week with Tilly. On Monday, a Guide leader named Heather had a tea party because she was stopping work at GirlGuiding. Karen, our leader, needed volunteers to help make the food and take orders for the drinks people wanted. So, Tilly and I and four other Guides all turned up to help, and we had loads of fun being waitresses and all sorts!
Anyway, when we got there and started to help Karen taking things in. Then we all made some sandwiches, and I kept thinking ‘aaaargh’ because I hadn’t made a sandwich before for a posh tea party! I made chicken ones and cut them into triangles and hoped that they were delicious for Heather’s party. Everyone else made different ones. Louise and Tilly made tuna, and once Louise was squeezing in the mayonaise and then turned to talk to Rebecca… which ended with very mayonaise-y tuna sandwiches!
When the guests started arriving, I borrowed a notepad and pen off Karen, and wrote down what we had. This looked like:
We have:
Coffee
Tea
Decaff coffee
Lemon tea with herbs
Then I went around and said, ‘Would anybody like a drink? We have [so and so],’ and then the ladies would say, ‘Ooh, that would be lovely thank you; could I have a tea with sugar and milk, please? Ooh, that would be lovely!’ I felt like a proper waitress! At the end the notepad looked like a scribble of:
We have:
Coffee
Tea
Decaff coffee
Lemon tea with herbs
Orders:
1 lemon tea w/herbs
2 decaff coffees
1 coffee
3 teas w/ milk
And it just came expanding and expanding!
We were allowed some of the food too, so I had a tuna sandwich, a few crisps (most of which fell on the floor), and a scone with cream and jam! I felt like the Queen!
We had to leave at about four thirty to have dinner (we didn’t actually get any, Mummy said we’d ‘already had it’), but we had loads of fun and a dinner concoction!
On Tuesday, we went to the library to play with my adorable two-year-old cousin, Sebby. He said to me when I came in, ‘Nia, will you read me some Octonauts? And then some of this? And this one? And Mummy chose this one? Read this one too?’ While waving five books at me! So I took them and read them all to him, and then he said, ‘More Octonauts, Nia. More Octonauts.’ Tilly said she’d been through the whole children’s section and that we’d read all the Octonauts, so he said, ‘Err, well read me this one then. This one Octonauts.’ While holding up the one we’d just read! So instead we played a game where we had to hide his toy sheep, and then he tried to write down his name but he wasn’t very good!
Later on that day, we played in the park with our friend Elise. We did a sort of ‘routine’ called ‘Wow Boom Fizz’. Tilly was Fizz, I was Wow, and Lisey was Boom. We were climbing round on the big frame and jumping off the highest places. If I jumped off something, I had to call out, ‘Wow!’ and if Lisey jumped off too, she screamed, ‘Boom!’ and so on with Tilly. We were just going to show it to the adults when they ran towards us and cried, ‘Quick! We need to go! They’re going to shut the car gates!’ ‘No, there won’t be time for your show! Tilly, don’t argue with me!’ ‘Come on, Elise, we need to go!’ ‘I’m not interested, there’s no time!’ And we all had to make a dash for it or else!
On Wednesday, we did a lounging-about-the-house day, and I wrote my story, read lots of books, and re-enacted Ninja Warrior at the park.
On Thursday, we had a great day out at Anglesey Abbey, but that doesn’t need much talking about, because I’ve already done a post about it.
On Friday, we did some more reading and writing and went to the park to re-enact Japanese Sasuke (Ninja Warrior). We also walked up to the library and played in the park for a little bit. We watched a film called ‘Neverland’.
On Saturday, we stayed in and played some games and finished off ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, by Shakespeare, which we have been reading for a while. We also wrote and read and Tilly made some delicious-when-warm cornbread.
And today, Sunday, we went to Wrest Park. Nanny came too.
When we went to have a play in the playground, who might turn up but Matilda, Seth and Arthur! We played ‘tag’ and ‘Bulldog’ and ‘Hide-and-seek tag’. The thing that was a little unfair about the ‘tag’ and so on, was that Seth and William kept just running into the men’s toilets and hiding there. Of course, I couldn’t go in to the men’s toilets, so I had to wait them out like a bathroom seige and catch them before they saw me. We got there at about half twelve, and left at five, so we had hours and hours of playing!