One down, five to go …

July 25th, 2010 by Sarah

The first weekend of the school holidays is almost over, only five more to go! We’ve been busy as usual though with different things going on …

On Friday night we went to Exmouth, along with some other families, for an end of term BBQ. Well, we didn’t BBQ as that would have meant being organised; we had chips on the seafront instead. Everyone else was far more civilised than us, of course. Miss White even joined us for some of the time, which was lovely- possibly the last time we see her! The kids had a ball, and it was very chilled for us grownups as well :)

Sweet-talking ... Miss White arrives

Yesterday Steve took all his employees on a jolly down to Haynes Race Track, so muggins here covered at the garage. It was very quiet although I did see one genuine customer – but a quiet day suited me as I had some time to think about planning for next year – not that I actually managed to get any work done, but still. The children spent a pleasant day with Grandma :) We were meant to go to Exmouth again with different friends but I made an executive decision that I was too tired so called an early night all round.

Today the girls went off to panto for the day, while Steve, Josiah and I went into town, then out to Wiscombe as spectators for a couple of hours – a novelty for Steve! Since he blew his gearbox up yesterday he had little choice :roll:

Anyway, back to the girls – over the past few weeks they’ve been involved with a mini-production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by the ‘Juniors’ of the Pinhoe Panto Society. Well, we thought it was a mini-production but actually it was pretty major! Considering how little time they’d had to rehearse it was an amazing show, with all the kids involved, some great singing and dancing too – and they all had such fun doing it, which was obvious in their enjoyment of the performance.

Toot Sweets Me ol' bamboo The Vulgarians chase Chitty Boris and Goran

Afterwards all the panto families went and sat in the park and chatted while the kids played, lovely :)

4 Responses to “One down, five to go …”

  1. Alison Says:

    I think we have another 6 weekends … Violet goes back on the 7th?

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang looks like great fun :)

  2. Julia Says:

    Loved the photo of the girls with Miss White. Brilliant blog once again Sarah. :)

  3. Sarah Says:

    We’re all back on 2nd. Actually I think Abbie goes back on 1st!

  4. Toni Says:

    Welcome to weekend 2!

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