3 – 9 July 2017
Monday
On Monday this week, Tilly went to volunteer at the old folk’s home (!) like she does every Monday for lunch. She always comes back stuffed with pineapple-upside-down-cake and shephard’s pie! When Tilly came back at half-one-ish we walked to swimming with Mummy and did our lessons there. We practised front-crawl by doing just arms and then just legs, then one arm and both legs, then the other arm and both legs, and then we did full front-crawl and perfected it completely!
For Guides that night, we didn’t go to the hut, but to the Willen Lake high ropes! I didn’t think I would do it at first, because when I was eight-or-nine-ish we did them at a home-ed PGL trip and I didn’t like it, but when I got there, I actually went on the highest ones first! Tilly did the highest and then the middle, but I just did the highest twice. I kept jumping off the obstacle on purpose and swing round in mid-air, and it felt like I was flying!
Tuesday
On Tuesday, we tried out a Latin club. It was run by a nice lady called Hazel. We did played some games and it was okay, but they only did two stories per week and I’d rather just get on with it 😉 The children there were very nice, all home-educated because it was a home-ed club, but I didn’t enjoy it too much, but I smiled and cracked jokes and made the most of it. After Latin, we looked round the shops for a bit and then had a DELISH treat – a lunch in IKEA! I had mash and meatballs and gravy and the red berry sauce, followed by apple cake and cream! 🙂 Tilly had the same, but fish and chips instead of mash and meatballs.
Wednesday
On Wednesday, we had a bit of a stay-in-day.
However, when the schools ended, I walked up the end of the road and asked my friend Clara if she wanted to come round and watch a film. She did, and we watched ‘Baby’s Day Out’, a funny film about kidnappers trying to steal a baby and then falling off buildings into trash skips and so on 😉 We asked if she wanted to have bacon rolls with us for dinner, but she had pizza ready that day. At seven-ish, she left and went home at the end of our road, and we had delicious bacon-and-mayonnaise rolls!
Thursday
On Thursday this week, we went to Stratford-on-Avon with Grace, Eve and Anne. That’s where Shakespeare and his wives and children and so on lived! Before Grace, Eve and Anne came, we went to Anne Hathaway’s cottage. Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. We wondered round the gardens and looked in the little nooks and crannies. One of them was like a little hollowed-out willow tree, and there was a bench inside the bulk of leaves, and you could press these buttons to listen to people reading out Shakespeare’s sonnets.
After that, we went to Mary Arden’s Farm. Arden was Shakespeare’s mother. On the farm we watched the Tudor people have their Tudor dinner-tea-thing, and we stroked the horse, Ellie, and had a delicious picnic!
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Friday
On Friday, we went to our drama club in the morning. We practised our solos and showed Chanel (she’s the lady who runs it) them, and we watched some of the people’s dances who were comfortable with it. After drama, we went to Wrest Park to meet up with Seth and Arthur and Nicola and drop off Matilda. We played in the bath-house for a bit and Little Matilda badly hurt herself 🙁 Anyway, we played around for ages and finally went home for some reading and then a scrumptious bean-sweet-potato-something-or-other dinner 😉
Saturday
On Saturday, Mummy and I went jogging in the morning. We set the man telling us when to walk and when to jog to ‘Johnny Dead’, and he said things like, “Right, now for a brisk walk… oh, I can taste the sweat dripping off your brain… brain… brain!” Until it was kind of creepy…
Sunday
On Sunday, we went to Little Matilda’s (Seth and Arthur’s sister’s) birthday party! It was super-duper fun. We got all dressed up in our best dresses. It was a girls ONLY party, and the girls in it were Tilda, me, Tilly, a girl called Kezzia, and Lillian.
We discoed around for a bit, played muscial chairs (she’d hired a hall-place, so it was easy to run about in) and we also played the Doughnut Game and the Chocolate Game. For the Doughnut Game you had to eat a doughnut off a plate without licking your lips or using your hands (!), and for the Chocolate Game you had thirty seconds to put on a pair of sunglasses, an Elsa plait, a hat, a cloak, and a handbag, and then still in that thirty seconds you had to chop up as much chocolate as you could with a knife and fork and eat it! It was deliciously amazing! XD For her birthday Tilly got Tils a woodland adventure kit, and I got her a 50 Fairy Stories book. I loved it. I hope she did too!
