Fudge

We went to Bristol for Uncle Ken's 80th birthday. At the restaurant we could see the river and there were loads of boats including a houseboat. I could see their kettle through the window. There was a potato hiding under a chair on the decking when I went to look at the boats. I ate asparagus in coats with a water (poached) duck egg to dunk them in. Mummy had to hold the coats because they were hot and I steered her hand to dunk the asparagus and eat it. It was also Hannah's birthday. She kept pulling funny faces at me whilst I ate my food and I pulled faces at her too. Hannah had some toys to play with and a roundabout and a seesaw and slide for the little people to play with on the floor. Fudge kept knocking it all over and Hannah did tell Fudge not to do it but she still did it.
Auntie Carolyn had a musical knife that played different songs when you pressed buttons on the singing knife. They used the singing knife to cut up the cake for Uncle Ken.
There I saw a lady dog, not a boy dog, called Fudge because she was fudge coloured. Fudge was at Auntie Carolyn's house in Bristol. She had tickly fur so at first every time she came near I jumped at Mummy so Fudge could get by. When I left in my pyjamas I kissed Fudge byebye. I have a dog called Fudge at home. Fudge is a real dog that sits in my hand and after meeting the other Fudge I decided that my Fudge was also a girl dog not a boy dog and my Fudge can do tricks too. I took Fudge in my pocket to nursery so I could show Laura all Fudge's tricks. She can spin, roll over, stay and hunt for her treat, also she can leap over my head and onto my arm.

At the Asparagus Festival on the Bank Holiday I saw a steam train that was little and the man had sooty hands because of the coal that he used to make the steam train work. Sometimes the steam train Dolly could go really well when it is windy but it wasn't windy so a boy and I were pumping the steam to make Dolly go. She didn't have enough wind to make the steam to go so I sat on the seat and tried the steering wheel and looked at the water tank and the fire. I liked the bit of steam coming out of her chimney.

There was a man dressed up like asparagus and he had a green face. I ate a big bowl of asparagus with a dipping sauce but it wasn't tomato ketchup because Mummy & Daddy said I couldn't have ketchup with asparagus. There was a wagon with two shire horses. Whenever the horse turned round I shot over to Mummy because I thought it would gobble up my hair so then I would have no hair on my head. I'd be bald. Daddy held my hand so that I could pat the horses legs. It had gigantic feet, as big as a plate of asparagus or Mummy's head.

Nanna and Grandpa were house hunting whilst we were at the asparagus festival and they took me home with them for a NannaGrandpa holiday. Nanna and I made shortbread and gingerbread teddy bear biscuits to take to the picnic. I went for a long walk with Nanna and Grandpa and we needed umbrellas. With Nanna and Grandpa I went to meet my cousins Russell, Tom and baby Edward. We had a picnic in the rain. It poured and poured with rain. I splashed in puddles in my muddy wellingtons and got wet feet because my wellies had holes in that Russell found for me. Mummy bought me new hedgehog wellingtons but it kept being sunny.

It was so sunny that at nursery we ate in the garden because it was hot inside. I went to nursery with Mummy as her assistant because she working there and Frankie told me to go in the garden and I played with the sandpit with my friends. They got the swimming pool out and Frankie was splashing everyone with the hosepipe when filling the pool. I took my swimming costume to nursery when I went for the whole day but it was not sunny enough anymore so I didn't get to wear it or to splash in the swimming pool.

At swimming I told Craig I didn't want any armbands and he didn't give me any so I had no armbands all swimming lesson. Grandpa looked after me on Wednesday but he was stuck in traffic, so he was late so Mummy took me to the toddler group she was working at and Grandpa met us there. This time I didn't help Mummy set up because there was a chained pirate boat to play with. Also they had pink sand with dinosaurs to play with so Mummy had to set everything up herself. The other days this week I helped squirt out paint for people and cleaned up the tiles for Mummy and played with the children and guarded the paints from the babies.

I am so strong now that I can pick up my chickens and cuddle them. Sometimes when they make an eagle shape I kiss them between their wings or cuddle them and put my head on their back between their wings. I love my chickens. Spot is being broody which means she sticks her tail feathers up and makes them big and she makes a funny beurking sound. We made our own bubble mixture and I tested it by blowing bubbles at my chickens.

Daddy was at an archery competition in Leamington at the weekend and he took me with him to set up his tent and his target had the number 2 on it. On the next day of the competition in the hot sun Mummy drove me to Leamington and I showed her where all the targets were but I couldn't find Daddy's tent as there were lots of tents and people and we had to be quiet to not disturb the archery people. We hid in Daddy's tent whilst he was checking his arrows and he was surprised to see us but he was happy because we had brought him a drink and some crisps. I let him have some of my Quavers so that he would let me have some of his crisps. We stayed to watch him but it was hot and we had things to do at home so Mummy said byebye but I wanted to play on the playground so I went on the boat and the climbing frame and got off the frame by swinging. I wanted to go on the slide and had to ask the big girls to let me go and then it was time to go home and we had icicles to eat in the garden and the chickens wanted to eat them too but we didn't let them. When I got up in the morning Daddy had two tropheys and a medal in a cupboard to show me. He didn't win but he did come second and his team won too and he had a medal for hitting the very middle of the target when it was furthest away because they moved the targets during the day. There was a target with children on and it was close to the archers and Daddy said that I could shoot at that one when I am old enough to do archery and go to competitions with him so I showed it to Mummy when we visited Daddy. I am going to do archery like Daddy and I will win lots of medals but at the moment i do not have a bow because I am not allowed to shoot in the garden because I might hit my chickens by mistake but Daddy doesn't hit them by mistake even when they sit under his target but I am not allowed to be in the garden when Daddy is shooting even though I am bigger than the chickens.

Whilst Daddy was away Mummy started reading "Jungle Book" to me. I like looking at pictures of Mowgli and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. I like Mowgli the man cub best of all and his friends the wolf cubs. At the weekend when Daddy was at archery Dominic asked me to play in his garden and I played on his trampoline and taught him to play Snow White and he killed me by poking swords into my chest and then I went onto the trampoline to be dead and he did a fingertip kiss to make me alive again.

We went for a walk at nursery to the Mere and we saw a heron sitting on the "No Fishing" sign even though he was waiting for fish,so he was fishing. He was breaking the law but Mummy told me that he couldn't read the sign so he wasn't breaking the law. There was a picture of the heron on the newspaper so he must have stayed on the sign a long time.