Campfires and Cream!

This weekend has been wet,wet,wet!  Mum and Dad made us go on a soggy walk around Blenheim Palace Gardens.  To be truthful, I actually enjoyed it but we got incredibly sogged and dirty.  The funnest part of the seven mile walk ( we've suffered more! ) was the chocolate cake from Combe Tea Rooms and jumping in muddy deep puddles. The best thing about jumping in deep muddy puddles is that you make your annoying little brother really cross as he's soooo wet.  Wolfboy didn't enjoy the walk.  He got bad blisters in his wellies.  None of us had the right sized wellies - mine were 3's and I'm size 12 and a half, Wolfboy's were size 10 and he's size 12 and the Badger's were size 5 and she's now size 7! 

On Friday night, I went to a friend's barbeque.  They had an excellent camp fire.  Me and all my friends played with the fire and got fire onto sticks and ran around with it pretending we had the Olympic torch!  Luckily, mum had no idea.  We also played a great game of Capture the Flag with the older children (the oldest ones were 13 and 14).  We went on the trampoline lots and we ate loads too.  It was East meets West food with sausage and dahl.  It was so fun.  It got dark soon and we all sat down by the campfire in the dark and some of the dads who knew the guitar played old rock tunes.  Some of the older boys played along with drums.  It was so late when we came back home that we were very tired and a bit grumpy the next day.

Before that, I went for a day at Forest Farm holiday camp.  We painted flags and we danced and did drama.  The best bit was making our music video with Absee and her little sister.  It was about going to the seaside and we had the Summer Holiday tune in the background!  I'm looking forward to going back next week.

On Saturday afternoon, we went over the road to our neighbours and we played with the girls who live there.  Me and the biggest girl made camera videos of our Beckley news thing.  We did lots of news interviews and specials.  After we did that, we had a very special afternoon tea and we had biscuits, scones, strawberries and ......CREAM!  I love love love cream - single, double, clotted, whipped, sour - I love them all! 

Music, mosaics and madness

 These three days have been lov-ely!  I've been on an art course with my friend Ena. We've done mosaics, grafitti art and silk painting.  When we did mosaics, I did flowers and a square sun.  It is really interesting what you can do with a couple of tiles, glue and some very smelly paste!




Before that, at the weekend, dad and the other 2 went to Bath (INF=it's NOT fair!) and me and mum stayed behind and we went to the Oxford Olympic Brass Fanfare at Christchurch cathedral with Ena and her brother who plays the cornet like me.  It was very exciting.  See this link for details:
http://www.oxfordphil.com/node/640

The organ boomed and the trumpets shouted.  Christchurch cathedral is very beautiful, we were sitting in the choir stalls - they were so uncomfortable!  My favourite bit of music was from the composer (John Williams) who wrote the Star Wars music.  It made me think that trumpets could sound beautiful.  We ate massive burritos before.  I had chicken and blackbeans in mine.  Mexican food is my favourite food.

Wolfboy ( my little brother ) has been being especially annoying at the moment.  This morning I got into a load of trouble because he pulled my hair so I pulled his back. I don't think it's fair that Dad shouted at me and not Wolfboy, I mean, Wolfboy was the one that started it!

The Badger is also being normally annoying. When you enter her room she counts to 10 and if you aren't out by 10 she tickles you and hits you with a pillow.  The bad thing about The Badger is that ( I think!) she's soooooooooooooooooooooo bossy! She'll act like a grown-up if she has the chance.

Now for a different subject that's not about annoying siblings. One thing that makes me really happy is Cats.  They're so furry and friendly and they're nearly always there for you to swear about people on them. It happens to be that I've got a cat and two kittens. One's ginger and two of them are tabby, and they have such soft coats, especially baby Siddy who is a long - haired cat.

On Tuesday after Art-Class I went to Ena's house and we went swimming at the Strongie's pool. They have a beautiful blue pool surrounded by grapevines.  Me and Ena did diving and bombing and swimming.  We've already made up our own synchronised swimming routine. 

We watched the Olympic men's gymnasts getting a bronze medal on Tuesday night.  They nearly got silver but the Japanese team complained.  If I was in the Olympics, I would do cycling, the road race.  I like cycling. 

Right now, mum's just come home from work and we're discussing what we should do this evening.  I think we should go to Blenheim Palace and have a picnic, mum says no, let's wait for the weekend to do that.  Dad wants to make a banana cake.  Let's have a row!