FIRST WEEK OF BEING TWELVE AND A VERY BUSY ONE AT THAT!

And so to the rest of the time.

Private trampolining is still going well. Would love him to finish a badge before James leaves, but we only have two more lessons, so that's looking unlikely which is a shame. We will be stopping until September after that and I'm convinced that he'll have forgotten half of it by then. We shall see, he normally ends up proving me wrong!!

We've also had another Riverside Rangers meet up. Bird watching this time. Callum was, unfortunately not really in the mood. I think he was still obsessing about his new things as I hadn't had much cooperation out of him on the education front either, but I insisted he went along, even if it was just for the fresh air. Big Sis, Terri, joined us which was really handy as while I was ensuring Callum was ok and helping him with binoculars and generally being the pack horse, she wrote down lots of notes which came in very useful when we came to write it up the next day.

On the Thursday, Callum had his first osteopath appointment. He'd been complaining off and on about having a pain in his back and so I said I'd make him an appointment. We weren't sure if the pains were just growing pains of whether it was due to him using his scooter since forever!! Callum has never wanted a bike, although he has recently been on his best friend's one. He's always had a scooter and has an offroad huge affair at the moment. My worry is that he can only 'scoot' on one side and this would have led to one side being stronger than the other making him lop sided. He wasn't keen on going and had a bit of a moment before going in, but he calmed down once he met her and she'd spoken to him. He wouldn't take off any of his clothes, but she managed to examine him by him lifting his Tshirt. He is slightly wonky and one side of his lower back is tighter than the other, so he had a lovely massage and a bit of manipulation and came home happy! In fact he was really tired and slept until 9am the following day! He had about 3 days of sleeping brilliantly and late into the morning, so whatever she's done, it's been good for him.

Friday was foraging with our friend Carol and her daughter Lauren.
The kids ran off into the mudflats and the water while we had a good forage for some food. Learnt a lot and came home with enough Sea Beet and Samphire to do two dinners. Callum loved both the veggies, but his dad wouldn't try the Sea Beet and didn't really like the Samphire. Oh well, Callum and I will be ok if there's a food shortage as Callum loves trying out different things that we pick, but Phil would probably starve as they don't come clean and in packages. Hehe.

The weekend was Fuse Festival, a local Arts festival, where lots of different wacky acts get together and do performances. Callum loves Fuse and even though it rained we spent 4 hours there!!!

The AirAquarium was a tent with a transparent roof. It was supposed to be an underwater lab (very well done) and puppets made from recycled rubbish were used to 'explore' the bottom of the ocean! Very funny in parts and very clever!
Dizzy O'Dare and Poppet on the Tiny Tightwire

Callum's favourite act of 2011 - Goronwy Thom