It’s been a very busy few days, and I am writing this sat in a school reception area watching Lewis do skipping with some of his old friends from the Jump Nation competition here in Kingston-Upon-Thames. They’ve opened a class and there are about 25 kids in there of all ages and Lewis is one of the oldest. The team from Pulse are here so it’s nice to see some old faces although the journey here was a bit of a pain and took 2 hours because of the rain and traffic. Not sure how many times we’ll be coming but I have done the ‘Good Dad’ thing and brought him along and will let him decide what he wants to do, just a 135 mile round trip is a bit of a pain and clashes with Taurus training on a Monday. (Updated comment – he loved his time there tonight and wants to come again)
Talking of long round trips, last week I was in York training 2 Science Learning Centre users on SPIRIT – 7 hours round trip but thankfully stayed overnight on the York University campus on Thursday. That was interesting to see how it’s all set up and it would be fantastic experience for any one of the kids to attend. I was very impressed indeed. Training went well but it meant I didn’t get back home until 9.00pm on Friday night, made the weekend a whole lot shorter!
Sunday was Father’s Day, the kids know me too well and Charlotte got me a bag of toffee and Jack got me a bar of chocolate, Lewis got me the world’s biggest mug – yes it was bloody huge and I filled it up with coffee, drank it out of principle but won’t be doing that again…half measures will be plenty in the future.
Father’s Day was also Summertown Stars 5-a-side tournament, my A team did really well and got to the quarter finals and were all over Cumnor but they equalised with seconds to spare and then beat us on penalties which was frustrating as we’d have had a semi-final with Kidlington had we won as we deserved. Ah well. They had a presentation for me at the end of the tournament (my parents!) and they gave me a card with loads of nice thank you comments but also another Red Letter Day voucher – incredibly generous.Tash and I will probably do something together such as a pamper weekend or something like that, we’ll got through the website and spend it well.
Last Sunday was also busy, Lewis, Nathan, Gaz, Paul, Jason and I went paint balling as part of our Xmas present from Tiffany. Poured with rain the whole time but it didn’t dampen our spirits and we had a great time. Spend too much on the paintballs but it was really good, I was very impressed. Apart from at the end when I got hit too many times and it bloody well hurt! I think I’d do it again, but I must admit I prefer the Laser Gaming, probably because it doesn’t hurt!
I think I mentioned in a previous post that Mum’s hair is coming our gradually, it’s only thinning out at the minute but she’s only halfway through the chemo course, so she and Tash went out to the wig shop this week and had a laugh sorting one out. It’s the one thing that Mum was really worried about but I think she’s just got on with it as something she can’t avoid so is taking it in good spirits.
That’s it, Charlotte and I are off to Wimbledon tomorrow, we have tickets for No.1 court so looking forward to that, it’ll be nice just the two of us. Hopefully the miserable rain that we’re experiencing right now will disappear and we’ll have a long day of it – I’ll take the brolly just in case though!!!
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