12 – 18 June 2017
On Monday, we went for our swimming lessons as usual, and after swimming Grace, Eve and Anne came round. We had a massive disco in the garden, listening to songs for AGES, and then had pizza and wedges in the garden, before Tilly and I had to be whisked off for Guides. The HQGG (HQ of GirlGuiding) had made some new activies, and we tried one, but none of the Guides liked it, so our unit will be sending off ‘bad’ feedback to the HQ 😉 As Rachel and I put it, it was ‘too much like schoolwork’.
On Tuesday, we did some work in the morning, and after lunch we went to the park with Seth, Matilda and Arthur. There we played all afternoon until they kicked us out at six-ish, and Seth and I played a game where the only rules are ‘pour your cup of water over each other until it is possible to wring out your t-shirt’ – aka we got very wet.
On Wednesday, Nicola (Seth, Matilda and Arthur’s mum) set up a photography group at Wrest Park, and we helped out in the younger group and participated in the older one. It was really fun! Unfortunately, the camera Andy gave me to use ran out of battery, and then the one that Nicola gave me ran out of storage space before I’d taken one photo (:P), so I followed Seth and someone else whose name I do not know (!) while they took a load of photos.
Thursday is the day we do our filmmaking group, and this week we made the characters for our film out of plasticine. I made Derek the caterpillar with Cameron, and also a palm tree with him as well, and then Derek when he was ill, which I called ‘Dishevelled Derek’. It was so much fun!
On Friday, we went to our drama group. I started doing my dance for The Winner Takes It All, and Lillian, Matilda, Matilda (!), Elise and I did the dance for Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (a man after midnight). It was really great. Afterwards, we went trampolining with Seth, Matilda, Arthur, Lillian, and Nathan. Seth and I were playing our own sort of game, a mix-up of chasing, pushing-into-the-phome, catching, and so on 😉
On Saturday we went to Wrest Park in the morning, and guess what we saw?! A hot-air balloon! We really weren’t expecting that! It was tethered, of course, and we went in for free! William was a bit petrified (as you can see in the photo!) but I thought it was amazing, and I really wish they could have cut the ropes and we could have gone round the world in eighty days!
Afterwards, we played in the pavilion for ages and did some tree climbing 🙂
In the afternoon, Nanny came round and I went to Chatterbooks, where we all discussed our favourite books. Everyone else said things like, ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Jaqueline Wilson’, and so on, but I said this:
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Through the Looking-Glass
Stuart Little
Esperanza Rising (THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!)
Watership Down
Bridge to Terabithia
It was loads of fun. Oh, and I recommend Esperanza Rising for 10 or 11+, it’s about some Mexican immigrants going to the USA and it is THE best book in the whole wide world of… of… worldiness!
Tomorrow we are off early in the morning to Liverpool!