20 – 26 November 2017
On Monday, we started a new timetable! It’s a lot more ‘ten o’clock English, eleven o’clock philosophy, twelve o’clock lunch, one o’clock maths’ and all that, but I quite like that idea (come to think about it, it was my idea!).
We went swimming in the afternoon, before Grace, Eve, and Anne came round and we wrote a story and watched a film called ‘Bill’, a funny one about Shakespeare. At Guides we did silk painting! Well, we were meant to be doing silk painting, bauble making, and pine-cone sewing, but we only had time in the end to do silk painting since everyone was so precise and careful about it! I did some flowers, but the red (the paint was so fine!) went wrong and ran over the gold lines in one of the petals, so one was a bit blotchy. But apart from that, personally I think it was very pretty!
On Tuesday, we continued with our timetable, and did a little game-making on a computer porgamming website called Scratch (scratch.mit.edu). I’m making a game about Harry Potter (of course, who wouldn’t) and I’ve started designing all the characters for it; Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco..
On Wednesday this week, Tilly was at nursery as usual (and brought back all the diseases, as usual, and as you will find later on) and I watched some Harry Potter. Then I made some chocolate-flavoured fairy cakes where we hid the buttercream icing in the middle, but I think it was quite obvious because no one’s icing tricks in this house are very expert. However, we must be in cake-making, because they were very yummy!
On Thursday, Tilly had indeed brought back the Nursery Diseases, leaving me with an extremely sore throat, and up all night with a headache. We stuck to our timetable once more, playing games and doing some work. We wrote an essay, too, one about whether or not I should eat meat.
When I woke up on Friday, my throat was even more sore, my head rang even more, and I could imagine little cogs and knobs in my tummy churning my dinner round and round even more than my nutritional system had done. I stayed, lying on the sofa, for the entire day, resting, and wehn Nanny came round, we watched Harry Potter number five, the first time I’d watched it! Unfortunately, I was a little crestfallen because it wasn’t as good as all the others and everyone looked like they’d been stuck on to artificial backgrounds. But it was still good!
On Saturday I felt a bit better but not much; I still managed to go to drama though, unlike yesterday! Our usual director, Richard, was away coaching another class as they did their performance, so we had another lady, Louise, who I didn’t fancy too much but was okay. I think she might have had something to do with the agencies, who come to see if you want to be in a film!
On Sunday, we went to Cambridge to see Daddy! And guess what? He brought along Kerri, Jago, Ambrose and… my new baby sister, Willow! Jago’s four and I last saw him when he was two; he was such a chatterbox! He kept going on about his ‘Joojoo’ game, and he was so cute! (Even by the end of all these Joojoo lectures, I still had no idea what he was on about. The only thing I caught was something to do with squashing spiders.) Ambrose was two and I had never seen him before; he was absolutely adorable! He sat in his buggy the whole way through, pointing at things and laughing and looking like he didn’t really understand what was going on. Willow was only two months old, and, of course, I hadn’t seen her either! She was the cutest thing in the whole wide world! She had a little top, and a little babygrow, and a little pink fluffy thing with kitty-paws and a little whiskery-kitty hood! She was soooooo cute!
First we had a little wander round the shops. Everything was lit up with Christmas lights ready for December, which was really pretty but really cold outside! We moved on to go to the Museum of Architecture and Something Else, where we saw stuff from all around the world. There were totem poles from Papua New Guinea, headdresses from India, and jugs and bowls from Mali. We went and had lunch in the Debenhams cafe, which consisted of a delicious tuna panini that Tilly and I shared (it was humongous!). We finished with another walk around, where Jago went on about Joojoo 2 and when he had done with that, a new game about dragons and spears. We all had a very fun day.