Wednesday's Smile Lines

Would you trust this face?

Rosie: 'I was voted onto the school council.'

Me: 'What does a school councillor do?'

Rosie: 'Councillors look after the school and talk to the teachers about what the students want.  We put up the Christmas tree and we get to do the toast trolley and have free toast!  We do the gardening and we are Eco-warriors too.'

Me: 'What are Eco-warriors?'

Rosie: 'Eco-warriors keep the school green by recycling, re-using and growing things.'

Ethan: 'It's so unfair, I wanted to be a councillor too.'

Me: 'How do you get voted to be a councillor?'

Ethan: 'You put your name forward and the class votes.'

Me: 'Do you do any campaigning?'

Ethan: 'No, you just put your name forward.'

Ben: 'I wanted to be one too, but no-one ever voted for me either when I was at that school.'

Me: 'So basically it's a popularity contest.'

Ben: 'Yeah.'

Me: 'So what you're saying is that your little sister is popular and you two aren't?'

Ben: 'No.... (sigh) yeah!'

Now As The Summer Fades

I have a good friend Lisa.  She has a talented guitarist for a brother.  Lisa got me tickets to see him play!  Yesterday I headed to London with Asenath and Dawn to see Maroon 5...

... at Scala for the BBC Radio2 Live in Concert series:

The thing is... they weren't just tickets, they were VIP passes!  I got to sit in the VIP bar where the radio show was being broadcast and see one of my favourite dj's Jo Whiley do her thing, and watched Thea Gilmore play a couple of songs.  Jo also interviewed Adam and Jesse, and when it was time for Maroon 5 to perform I avoided the mosh pit and rocked out from the balcony:

They were so good, it was a great night!  Here follows some rather bad pictures of me at the after show party with Lisa's brother James:

And Jesse:

Go on, have a listen:

Thank you Lisa!

It's That Time Again

The children are back at school today and they were so excited about it that they were dressed before 7am.  I don't know what's wrong with them!  I on the other hand, am not ready for summer to be over.  (Yes, Noah has water on the front of his jumper already... and no, Ben doesn't have a black eye, it's a weird hair curl!)

You'll Always Be My Little Sis

Happy 25th!

'This Is The Bestest Day Ever'...

... said Noah!  He obviously doesn't have high standards.  Want to know what we did?  Well, we hung about in our sun-filled garden most of the day, found a rather large frog to admire, then took the bus into town (huge treat, I'm mean and usually make the children walk rather than pay extortionate prices to travel a mile or so!) to go see Toy Story 3 at the cinema.  The advantage of being (probably) the last children to see the film in Newton Abbot is that there were only three other people in the cinema... bliss!  We had pizza in the park for dinner:

Twirled around the bandstand:

Chilled out on the swings:

Climbed on everything:

And proved you're never too old to go on springy motorbikes:

I don't think any of us want to start school on Monday.