Joshua's College Application Updates

Joshua's college applications are now progressing nicely. He has now been offered both Brick Laying and a place for Level 2 Diploma in Electrical Installation at Chelmsford College. We are still to hear back from Southen/Basildon college as to whether they will also offer him a potential place. As it stands I think he plans to accept the Chelmsford Electrical course as this was his preferred option and preferred college. So now the pressure is all on him to get a minimum of 4x GCSE's as part of the entry requirements!

 

Holly Races in the Wickford School Cross Country

Since Xmas Holly has been going in to school early on a Tuesday for cross country training ahead of the Wickford Cross Country Comp we took place yesterday. It sounds like her tactics went a little off as her teacher told her not to go too fast on lap 1 but seemed to not tell them it was only 1.5 laps!!!! So Holly left herself too much to do and ended up finishing something like 25th. Still proud of her for doing it though, cross country in winter time takes some real grit.

Holly in the School Newsletter AGAIN

Spot Holly having fun on "Dress to Express Yourself" event at school.

Bees Vs Woodford

All the football was cancelled today due to heavy rain but Joshua's rugby was still on which meant an early start for me with a Trek all the way over to Woodford in Northeast London. Talk about a game of 2 halves, the Bees were completely out of it in the first half goin 21-0 down. Then the second half completely outplayed Woodford to make a really strong comeback to finish 24-17. So despite winning the second half they just gave themselves too much of a mountain to climb in the second half. I reckon another 5 mins and they would have got a final try to level the game.

Team photo at the end of todays Woodford game, some very muddy boys.

Joshua chose to not shower at the rugby club and brought all his mud home, resulting in my shower tray looking like this.

Poker Night

We haven't played poker in donkey's years and for some weird reason the kids have been asking to learn recently. So we dusted off the poker table and poker chips on Friday night and started to teach them. Josh and Brandon kind of got the idea but didn't really understand what hands they were trying to make. Holly was a bit clueless and was a bit gung-ho with her chips despite having Tina's help.

They actually got bored of poker pretty quickly and wanted to move on to Blackjack which we ended up playing for about 3 hours solid and learnt that Joshua is a bit of a hustler cleaning up most of the chips. Although he clearly plays online and was breaking out some dodgy rules I hadn't heard of with splitting hands, doubling up, treble payouts on Blackjack etc.

Dusted off the old poker table which hasn't seen the light of day in years.

We played Poker for about an hour and then moved on to Blackjack.