In her final event of the European season, Nikki came 12th in the Junior World Champs. She travelled out to Igls in the early part of the week, where she teamed up with some of the youth squad who had recently competed in the winter youth olympics. Nikki pushed well in the race offs, and was fastest. She was paired with the driver for GB2. On Thursday, they had two excellent starts, and were 0.15 seconds quicker than GB1 on both runs, and came 12th overall. Nikki was a bit miffed not to be pushing GB1 as they may have finished 5th or 6th, but it was a good performance.

Nikki travelled back from Austria on Friday, and stayed over at Wendy & Robs on Friday night, I went down and picked her up with Ellie yesterday. She was delighted to find we had bought a new mattress for her bed when she got home (she didn’t wake up till 11:30 today so it must have been ok). Nikki will be with us for about 4 / 5 weeks, and then is likely to go to Canada for a final competition of the season. Then it will be a months rest before starting back on getting ready for the next season. She is still seeing her Italian boyfriend, Roman, and it seems she is planning to go and see him, and he is going to be visiting us here….

I picked Robbie up on Friday evening, he has been working hard on illustrating a fairytale as part of his uni work. Ellie has enjoyed having her big sister and brother back for the weekend. We all sat down to roast beef with the trimmings at lunchtime today. The washing machine has just about finished catching up on all their laundry

Tomorrow we are all off to Tricia’s Uncles funeral, so it will be a sad day.

Yesterday evening we had one of our ‘safari suppers’, 15 couples joined in. The theme was ‘tramps’…. here are a few pics, me with Clive, Tricia and me, and Tricia. It was a good fun evening…. albeit somewhat late. It was a slow start to Sunday.

This afternoon we were invited for tea at one of Tricia’s friends. Then all of a sudden it was 6pm an I was wondering where the weekend had gone… Tricia and I will settle down shortly to watch a couple of Sunday evening programmes, and then it will be off to bed. Nikki and Robbie are off to the pictures to see Mission Impossible 23, or however many it is now.