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Aidan's Diary

2001 Diary

2002 Diary

2003 Diary

2004 Diary (Jan-Jul) – S-CLUB-11 kicks off! Mum starts a new job, as administrator at Pinhoe Primary School. I start at Manor House School.

2004

• Jul 31-Aug 6 - to a friend’s caravan on North Devon beach (Putsborough Sands). Great weather for rock pooling and body boarding!
• Aug 8-14 - "New Wine" Christian Family Camp again! Stayed in the luxury of another friend’s caravan. Cousin Georgia had her 7^th birthday there! Stasia with her 3 best friends and a cuddly bear!!! Our family helped again on a Community Day in Bristol, picking up rubbish and clearing a path through a wood.
• Aug 19 - Stasia's 7th Birthday  - a horse riding party!
• Aug 21 – Dad (Chairman of Whimple Scouts) organised a big working party to clean and clear out our old Scout Hut, and we all helped!
• Aug 22-28 - to Norfolk to stay at Benjamin & Jonathan’s huge house and heated pool! And out and about in Norfolk, like to Blickling Hall.
• Sep 11 – Dad and I went on a sponsored bike ride round 15 churches between Whimple and Budleigh, raising £150!
• Sep 12 - S-Club-11 started up again!
• Sep 21 - Stasia started Brownies
• Sep 29 – I played my first ever Rugby match for Manor House!
• Oct 23-27 - To Paris & Disneyland!!! Take a look at our best pics.
• Oct 31 – To cousin Amber’s baptism in Blandford Forum church.
• Nov 19-21 – Mum on a girlies weekend away! Dad babysitting!!
• Nov 28 – Dad & I sang in Whimple Choir Advent Carol Service.
• Dec 3 – All to Beauty & the Beast panto!
• Dec 19 – S-Club-11 & Impact Special Christmas Celebration, even with a mini-band/orchestra!
• White Christmas with Mum’s parents (snowballing in Herefordshire), then to Dad’s parents (presents in Dorset).
• New Year’s Eve back home in Whimple

2005

• Jan 9 – S-Club-11 celebrated its 1^st Birthday!
• Feb 2 - My 10th Birthday, went to watch Exeter play Accrington Stanley! Back home for party with some of my friends!
• Feb 6 – All New Revamped Family ‘Celebration’ Service started at Whimple! Dad (violin), Me (trumpet), & Stasia (recorder) all join the mini-band/orchestra.
• Feb 9 – My first ever school football match – can you spot me in goal?!
• Feb 22 – Dad showed my Manor House class round the new Met Office.
• Mar 5 – First met baby Emma Riley, 3^rd daughter to Dad’s sister Fiona and Pete.
• Mar 21 – I got Grade 1 Trumpet with a Merit!
• Apr 9 – Dad’s cousin Richard Dominy & Cathy’s wedding in Southampton. 3 girls made excellent ‘unofficial’ bridesmaids!
• May 21 – Arsenal win the FA Cup – much to my delight!!
• May 29 – Jun 1 – To remote cottage in the South Hams, with amazing view, and near Salcombe, Slapton and Dartmouth. To Lannacombe Bay: surfing and kiting!
• Jun 10 – Stasia won a special Book Track award for reading 100 books – she was even in the local paper!
• Jun 11 – Manor House School Fete: I ran a football competition, Stasia fought ‘sumo-style’ with cousin Georgia, and Dad competed in egg catching contest!
• Jun 12 – SClub11 BBQ! Great fun with an obstacle course and the parachute was a hit again this year!
• Jul 3 – Stasia played piano in her first concert – open-air!
• Jul 4-10 Whimple Village Week – Lots of fun including walking village treasure hunt, country sports, and cow-pat betting!!
• Jul 9 – Colyton Grammar School Open Day – visited with Mum & Dad.
• Jul 11-12 – I was in my school production of 101 Dalmatians.
• Jul 25-29 – to Norfolk again to stay with Mum’s sister’s family and heated pool!
• Jul 30 – Aug 6 - a week at "New Wine" Christian Family Conference again! (in a kindly-lent camper van and my own little tent!).
• Aug 13-20 – staying in bungalow on hill above Polperro, S Cornwall.
• Sep 11 - S-Club-11 starting up again!
• Nov 19 – I take my Colyton School test. (Results not ‘til March!)

Easter 2006 – May visit Mum’s sister’s family in Phuket – working with World Vision to rebuild after the Tsunami.