Walking with animals.

Last year in Kendal we saw a family walking their dog, with a cat in tow. Unusual we thought! We think this no longer. Everytime we go for a walk with Molly, we have the accompaniment of Tabitha's ringing collar and Teddy's mews. In fact Molly will not walk without them and this morning we had to get Teddy out of the house before she would stop whining!

So far they have followed us to the tennis courts and nearly to the beach, with Teddy only once getting lost in the mangroves and getting covered in mud. Tabs tends to stick close to the bridge though she is becoming more adventurous as she sees Teddy surviving his travels.


The children competed in their first school cross country today. They both did really well on the three lap course. I am so proud of them. C then serenaded her class mates over lunch time on the guitar with Mr Davidson joining in. The ethos at this school is so good!

Big Trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the 5th of April me and my mum went on a big walk in the Coromandel Peninsula. It was sooooooooooooooooooo cool. We went with some other mums and some of my friends came to (yes granny Ruby came) .It was a really steep and long walk to say the least but there seemed to be two groups the ‘we are really strong and we will reach the top before you’ and then there was us “the plodders’ It was not all flowers and sunshine though because a little girl of five came with us called Lee. When we stopped to have lunch Lee played by the river, fell and hit her head. When we set of again the fast group went ahead leaving us with Lee who by this time was throwing up. We may have had Lee but I think we had a better time and enjoyed the our surroundings more because we took more time (but we did get back to the cars first!) When we finally got to the hut the doctor in our party (who was in the fast group) took one look at her and said she can’t stay here. So in came the air ambulance! It was a bit exiting!!!! All we had to eat and drink was cold pizza cold sausage rolls and water and hot chocolate …… very healthy. I really enjoyed this game of UNO the whole group played and we all had hot chocolate!!!!!!! We got no sleep mind you because of about 14 teenagers and their drunken fathers who just would not go to sleep. In the morning we had breakfast (pizza and sausage rolls) and set off back down sadly Lees sister Taylor was sick so again I don’t know why the fast group and the doctor said we want to go down the long way so the fast group went the long way and the plodders went the short way with the sick Taylor. On the way down we stopped of for lunch in the same place we had the day before. When we got to the bottom Taylor felt better and we were all very happy to be down. When the rest of the group got down we went and had a coffee and a cake. Now despite what you may be thinking we had an awesome time and I would do it again.


By Caitlin

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Reuben's review

We have just finished reading our family book. It is called Millions. It is a great book to read. It is about two boys who get a big bag of money, which has been stolen. One of the boys gives the money to the poor and the other tries to spend it. In the end the boy, who wanted to give the money to the poor, burnt the money but his dad, brother and friend had kept a little bit of the money and they used it to build wells in Nigeria.
My favourite bit was where they were playing Subbuteo and one of the boys who was obsessed with saints, used a model of the saint to defend the goal, and said that his team had prayed to `St Francis’. Caitlin liked the bit where they said ‘Speke Snowdrome’s quality’ with a heavy Liverpudlian accent.

We are going to read “Wolf Brother” next!

By Reuben

No new computer yet but...

I am still awaiting the arrival of my new computer so am having to use Anton's computer to write this.

I have a small dog asleep at my feet ( drugged by a vaccination I think) and bread is rising in the airing cupboard.

Update

Today I was supposed to post about Barbara's visit, complete with photos. I has been really lovely having her here, showing her the sights and sounds of NZ.

Unfortunately, the family spent last night at A&E and today my computer is kaput, though I'm not sure which is more worrying. After we dropped Barbara at the airport, I started feeling nauseous with stomach cramps. Everyone else went out on the jetski and I moaned on the sofa for a couple of hours before major projectile vomiting! Caitlin was so concerned she forced daddy to ring the doctors who sent us to A&E. We were there a total of four hours, including blood tests, intravenous morphine and a drip of stuff to stop the vomiting. They think I may have a gallstone, or kidney stone though I am convinced it is food poisoning, a bad mussell or something.

So news of Granny's visit will follow though the photos may take a while.

Now back to bed.