Happy birthday Grandpa

Today is our Stagecoach show but much more importantly it is Grandpa's 75th birthday.

Happy birthday Grandpa!

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Happy being 5 Cosmic

7 books in 7 days - tick!

I have finished our sponsored readathon for East Africa.

I was the first one of the kids to finish - the others are finishing now as Zara and George are staying with Zill and I for a sleepover.

THANK YOU so much every one who sponsored us. It was very kind.

80th birthday party

We had Grandad's 80th birthday party at our house today.



All our relatives were here - Grandad, Great Uncle Brian, Great Aunt Marguerite and lots of Mummy's cousins and their children. Grandpa, grandpa and the Everingtons came too and Moo and Zara made an awesome cake.



I played by 3rd cousin Georgie at chess and made her agree tona draw after playing for ages.



This is Grandad and I at the party. I think he had a lovely time.

Two for chess

I won a medal at a chess competition yesterday for being the best 7 yr old and I was only 1 point off a trophy.



George came too and he won a medal for being a first timer.

Dad came with us but the others got food for Grandad's 80th birthday party.

In the evening I read my second to last book with Mummy and Zilly and George read their books too. Zara is reading hers at her house.

Day 3. Book 3

Just finished The Ice-Cream machine. I read it to Alex.

I laughed so much at the flavour chocwobble that I got hiccups three times!

Zara's 7

Here are the seven books Zara is reading for our East Africa readathon. She gave Zill the titles and authors over the phone so we may have got some a little wrong. Oophs!

Midsummer Night Dream - Shakespeare

The killer underpants - Michael Laurence

Casper Prince of Cats - Michael Morpurgo

Fairy gold - Queenie Rees

Princess for hire - Linsey Leavits

Mr Stink - David Walliams

Little Darling - Jacqueline Wilson

Zill's 7

These are the books Zill is reading for our readathon.

She finished Wimpy Kid yesterday and is reading the Fart powder one today because she keeps asking us what accent we think Dr Proctor should have!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney

Spy Dog 2 - Andrew Cope

G'day Sydney - Hannah Montana novel

The Twits - Roald Dahl

The Village Dinosaur - Phyllis Arkle

Mr Gum and the biscuit billionaire - Andy Stanton

Doctor Proctors Fart Powder - Jo Nesbo

Spacemutts and Spacerace

I finished Spacemutts yesterday. It was good and it was like The film Cats and Dogs.

My favourite character was the dog Rocket - he was the leader of the SpaceMutts.

I also liked the shy Great Dane who saved the day when Lady Fluffkins - the leader of the bad cats - sent the ninja kittens to attack them. He was kidnapped and the other dogs captured but because he was told to believe in himself he saved them.

Today I have just finished Spacerace by Malorie Blackman. I read it to Mum but had breaks of course.

It was a great book and I loved that it kept naming all the planets. It even had a map of them at the front. The story taught me why you shouldn't cheat!

George's 7

I have started the readathon and Zill and I are both sitting on the sofa with our books. Zill can read hers alone, in her head, but I am reading mine out loud to a grown up.

These are the books George is reading:

The island of blood - Darius Hinks

King Tut's golden toilet - W.C Flushing

MI High - A new generation - Keith Brumpton and Jenny Zucker

MI High - Secrets and Spies - Keith Brumpton and Jenny Zucker

The Sleeping Sword - Michael Morpurgo

The ice cream con - Jimmy Docherty

The tales of Beedle the Bard - J K Rowling



They look long and it will be hard to read them all in a week but George reads lots and he reads fast so I think he will be fine.

Readathon - on your marks, get set ...

Zillyan, Zara, George and I start our sponsored read tomorrow - 7 books in 7 days to help people who need food, water and shelter in East Africa.

These are the books I am going to read:



Spacemutts - attack of the ninja kittens by Michael Broad

Henry V - Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross

The Ice-Cream Machine - Julie Bertagna

Star Striker Titch - Martin Waddell

Spacerace - Malorie Bkackman

The Empty Suit of Armour - Kaye Umansky

The Burglar's Breakfast - Felicity Everett

I am going to start with Spacemutts.

Please wish us luck I think it is going to be very hard. If you can spare anything, you can sponsor us here:

http://www.justgiving.com/Vanessa-Rustom

Thank you.

Kung Fu Sunday

Had a fab day at Bluewater with Jacob, Jess, Ruth and Pete.

First we went to a restaurant. It was called TGI Fridays and then we went to see King Fu Panda 2 and ate sweets.

Zilly wasn't there because it was Ocean's birthday party but we picked her up on the way home.


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Happy birthday Allie

Speech day

Today was a great day for me because I won a prize at Speech Day. I won it for effort over the year.
Zilly won the endeavour prize and Cosmic won the progress prize too.



When we went home I went to Stagecoach. After that we had noodles to celebrate is having a full year at Copthorne.


This is me eating my noddles and fish!