Photos: Charlie’s Birthday Curry
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Charlie, 5 friends and family enjoy a birthday curry at the Bengal Spice Restaurant in Catterick.
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Charlie, 5 friends and family enjoy a birthday curry at the Bengal Spice Restaurant in Catterick.
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It’s Charlie’s 9th Birthday today (9 – really… 9!!!)
He has some friends coming round to watch a DVD this afternoon and then off for a curry at a local restaurant.
He’s making great progress with his new Lego Star Wars Clone Turbo Tank (only 135 pages in the instruction manual!)
More photos later…

Charlie has broken his arm (Ulna) in an accident at a “soft play” centre (we know.. soft play… irony etc.) when one of his friends landed on him during another friend’s birthday party.
He’s been very brave.
We spent a few hours on Thursday evening at A&E (Darlington Memorial Hospital) where they examined, X-ray’d and put a temporary cast on him. He has a “green stick fracture” of his forearm. This morning we went back to the hospital and Charlie now has an “above the elbow” cast in a fetching green colour which he’ll wear it for 3 weeks.
All the staff at the hospital were friendly and efficient and we were well looked after.
Meanwhile… who’s my goalkeeper for Sunday’s match?!
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Example Match Attax Card
In these modern and enlightened times of kids and their teachers being.. erm.. friends – it is a new tradition for the kids to give their teachers a card (and sometimes a present!) at the end of the school year.
Charlie and his friends have gone crazy on the Match Attax footy trading cards (whither Panini stickers… sigh) – and recently have taken to making/drawing their own for their favourite players and themselves.
So I helped him design and make some cards for his lovely teacher (Miss Taylor) and TA (Mrs Illingworth).
We had our footy club annual presentation night yesterday evening. All our U8’s Saturday morning Soccer Club go medals and took part in a penalty competition.
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Today is Medieval Day for KS1 at Charlie’s school.
All the kids go in fancy dress and will have a packed lunch/picnic on the field.
Charlie’s costume is homemade by his Mum with support from his Dad.
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