Double Fantasy League

The Schools Fantasy League competition starts a couple of months into the football season, so everyone can enter once term starts. Rachel's school has run its own for the last few years so she's got a team again and is joined this year by Thomas's own entry. This means that Thomas's usual level of interest in who plays for which Premier league team, scores and results (considerable) has ratchetted up to a level bordering on obsession. Thomas is, of course, currently seven points ahead of his mother and sits 4th in the overall school table. Rachel is languishing in 12th. It is, however, a marathon not a sprint (or a Snickers).

Here's Thomas's team as it currently stands. He's already shown the level of ruthlessness required to succeed in football management by dispensing with the services of two underperforming defenders (Patrice Evra and Kolo Toure if you're interested).



















Rachel's team looks like this, obviously once Darren Bent (still got to have one ex Town player in there) and Drogba find their shooting boots she'll be zooming up the league.



Further updates as the season progresses, assuming I'm not driven mad by answering constant questions on the fitness, form and price of Premier League players.

Day tripper

Thomas recently went on a trip to the British Museum with his class at school because they'd been learning about Ancient Greece. This is what he wrote about it and some of the pictures he took.

"Yesterday we went to the British Museum at 9.00 am the coach arrived. The first building we saw was Canary Wharf. Then we saw the O2 building, a statue if Winston Churchill, Gherkin, London Eye, HMS Belfast, Embankment, River Thames, Downing Street, Pudding Lane, Changing of the guards, St. Pauls Cathedral, Monument, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. Then at last about 10 minutes later we arrived at the museum. The first thing we saw was a statue of tutankhamun's head. We saw some very strange statues. We saw loads of bones some of them were very disgusting.

For lunch I had a packet of mini cheddars, a frube, peanut butter sandwich, berry biscuits, an apple, skips, a fruit shoot and that is it. I bought a wooden sword and chocolate bar, at the children's shop. Then we went home."

Paint it pink

For some time Martha had been getting a bit too tall for her little bed that was halfway between a cot size and a normal single bed. But with her having such a small room how a single bed fit in her room as well as all the other no doubt vital 'stuff' a five year old girl accumulates?
After much consideration a raised 'mid height' bed was decided upon. Trouble was, the room itself needed with a lick of paint as well as it hadn't quite been finished when the extension was done.

Funnily enough most of the possible colour combinations Martha chose were variations on a theme of pink. Here she is trying out the colours with some tester pots.



A bright pink and a sort of pinky violet were the choices - the bright pink on one wall and the violet on the three others. Thankfully it all got done before the bed arrived and the small amount extra it cost to have the lot assembled proved worth every penny. Here she is in the new bed complete with new duvet cover, pillow case etc.



We also got a new roller blind for the window, trouble is that it lets in much more light and so she's waking up a bit earlier than before.




She seems pretty happy with it and thanks to the various pockets and shelves attached to the bed she's got everything she needs to hand when she does wake up at the crack of dawn.


One final thing, you can now access this blog using the slightly more catchy web address www.bockingkellys.co.uk

Back to the (sea) front

After leaving it to fend for itself during one of the coldest and wettest winters for ages we thought we'd better go and see how the beach hut looked. Thankfully all was well, although the decking is showing the signs of the hard winter.

Martha and Thomas seemed happy to be back, even though they had to run up and down, just to stay warm.



It didn't take very long for your tea to get cold!



As it was high tide and quite windy some of the waves were crashing over the sea wall quite impressively.



As we parked on the promenade I could do with washing the seawater off the car! Hopefully as the weather improves we'll be out there some more, last summer seems like a long time ago.