Girl Talk Art Mag Review

For a few months I have been getting the girl talk magazine. In the magazine there is loads of things. The most recent one I got has got a how to draw a panda page, stickers, competitions, how to stitch a pop tart pillow and on the cover there was a note pad and pens.

The first magazine I got had a paint an owl set on it, the owl was plastic but it was easy to paint on. In the magazine there are 34 pages and there are loads of jokes, so far I have got five or six issues and all of them are good, my sister thinks that its for little kids but I've seen twelve year old's buying it.

Over all it would be good for kids age 7 upwards its the best magazine that I have read yet.

Rumpelstiltskin BalletLORENT

Yesterday we went to see the Rumpelstiltskin Ballet at the Cast theatre in Doncaster with my friend here we are outside the theatre. Inside the waiting area  was full of people. We were in the front row 

and we had the best view  though we needed to look left and right to see things properly.

It's similar to the story but it is told a little different. it could have been a bit better but over all it was pretty good there were odd bits that were it was confusing because Rumpelstiltskin was an gnome in the story but he is a human in the play.

Halloween 🎃👻

There are only four more days till Halloween and I have gathered some information about Halloween

here it is:

me getting ready for Halloween a few years back

Halloween is an annual event celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween occurs on Wednesday this year. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to frighten off ghosts but why ward of ghosts if they just come back? Americans stole the English and Irish traditions, and began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition.

eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk 

In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mould Halloween into a event more about community and neighbourly get-together than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of  the season and festive costumes.

my sisters a Zombie 

Halloween has always been a event filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit
candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world.

Autumn Poem By John Clare

The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still, On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill, The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; Through stones past the counting it bubbles red-hot.

 The ground parched and cracked is like overbaked bread, The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead. The fallow fields glitter like water indeed, And gossamers twitter, flung from weed unto weed.

 Hill-tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run; Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

Edinburgh🏢

On Tuesday we went to Edinburgh with the usual people. This time we went by train and it was a three hour train ride. After three  long hours we finally got to Edinburgh. From the station we went to Edinburgh castle the views were fab. The castle was ok but we couldn't see the crown jewels because the queue was so long, there are also some things to do with the war and a prison camp.

 

Edinburgh Castle is a historic land mark I'm not sure when it was built but there has been a royal castle on the site since at least the 12th century.

After that we went to the Museum of Edinburgh and on the way there we saw a street performer  called the mighty Gareth and we saw him swallow  a sword well I didn't because I'm screemish. There wasn't much to see in the museum of Edinburgh but in the National Museum of Scotland there were lots to see we saw lots of   dead animals (which spoiled it a bit for me poor rhino) films and games and there were so many floors   five but that's still that's a lot of floors

My Birthday 🎁

Nikki's cake

Abbie's cake

         Today is my eleventh birthday here's how it started. I woke up had breakfast and then opened some pressies. The first thing I got was a designabear and it is called cupcake, and the second thing was some books by R J Anderson I've got the first two books of one series and one of another.  I then saw Abbies unicorn cake and it looked grate.

Then grandad went to cut down my cabin bed so it was normal bed but part of a present was that grandad put up a wall TV in my room  he also rearrange things. Later my friend came around as well as some of her family  they must have had seven presents including: a pare of unicorn pyjamas, a Rubik cube, sparkle creation, a orange spiky squeaky ball and colour your own messenger bag. Then I saw my friends cake. It's very good here are some pictures

The Rose Theatre

The Rose was built in 1587 by Philip Henslowe and a grocer named John Cholmley. It was the first purpose-built playhouse to ever stage a production of any of Shakespeare's plays. The theatre was built on a messuage called the "Little Rose," which Henslowe had leased from the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark in 1585.

The Rose was the first of several theatres to be situated in Bankside, Southwark near the south shore of the River Thames. The area was known for its leisure attractions such as bear/bull-baitings, gaming dens and brothels. It was located in the Liberty of Clink, a liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City of London's civic authorities.

The Rose contained substantial rose gardens and two buildings; Cholmley used one as a storehouse but I don't know what Henslowe used his for. North of London, professional playhouses like the Curtain Theatre and The Theatre had already been open for over a decade.

In York they have built a replica of the rose theatre and that is were me, Abbie and nanny went yesterday. The play we saw  is called a midsummer nights dream and it is very good in my opinion  it made me laugh and the fairy's were dressed up as trees. They were doing things like one fairy took someones bag and dumped it in front of the person it belonged to.  I don't think abbie liked it though because she was hardly looking at it.The theatre is like a pop up one  but more impressive  especially on the inside  but sadly after the second of september it will be taken down as it was only open for ten weeks. 

A Special Trip To York

Yesterday we went to York. When we got there we went to York castle museum which we went in because it's the  hundredth anniversary this year and they have something on which is good for me because I'm doing a WW1 project  (you can go to my previous post which is called York museums by clicking here).

After we went up to Clifford's tower. It wasn't as good as I hoped it would be but we saw York Minster and Shakespeare's rose theatre. Next we went to a place with Ice cream that we knew we liked  we were going to go to pound stretcher but a street performer  was doing some funny things  in the end we needed to run to the rose theatre so we wouldn't miss the start of mid summer nights dream.

Oh almost forgot on the way to York castle museum we past the jorvik centre and opposite  it there were two people who were from the jorvik centre and they were doing charm bags  me and abbie did one to and I picked lapis and blood stone for my two stones and yarrow and rosemary for my two herbs. 

New Ussuri Brown Bears At Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Four Ussuri bears were rescued from Japan.Two of the four were cubs when they were snatched from their mum who was shot by hunters. These are brothers are called Riku and Kai  they are now 17.The other two are called Amuro and Hanako and they are 27. The trip from Japan to the UK  lasted two days and they travelled 5,400 miles. In there old home they were living exhibits and the cages were 6 foot long and 9 foot wide and there were only three inches of water in there cages.

I am glad that they have been rescued by Yorkshire wildlife park because it is only about eleven miles away so we can get their easily and we have annual passes we can see them till the passes run out  and when they are open for public I will update and put pictures and videos on.

Camera Project 4

Today I did camera project 4 it is called "one object, five ways", you've got to choose a colourful object and photograph it five ways, I chose my bike and I got pictures of the handle bars, the wheel, the seat, the sprocket and a side view of the bike itself. What will your object be?

  

camera project 3

Today I did the third project. The third project is called " Photograph Your Room"and you need to do just that take a picture of your room. Oh and there's only 67 more posts on this. 😫                                                         

Camera Project 2

On Wednesday me and my nan went round the lake and I did a project on the way round . the project was from The Camera Book the project is called Focus On One Thing and I needed to find something called macro. Nanny couldn't find it but I found it !!!I did a white flower on a bush, the picture isn't as good as it could have been but its ok for my first time

Camera Project 1

Yesterday I started a new project on photography and I'm using The Camera Book by John Davis to guide me through the project I did the first page of seventy yesterday but it's not hard, (whats hard is keeping people viewing my two blogs), the first page was called still life and I needed to take a picture of  something that doesn't move and I chose this. 

As there are seventy projects in the book, one on each page, expect sixty nine more posts 

Puppy party

Last night our fourteen week old puppy called Finn went to a puppy party at the vets, when we got there a puppy was waiting outside with its owner. The puppy was a Jack Russell called Charlie, a Jack Russell that was yapping it's head of for half an hour or more and all the noise upset Finn. About ten minutes after we got there another puppy came with her owners that puppy was a Golden Retriever called Lily, she was nice and quiet. 

When we went in (with Charlie still yapping) to the vets there were a pile of toys on the floor, this was to show what toys puppy's should play with. There was a nurse and a vet there the nurse past round a sheet with pictures of the way a puppy could do to interact with you.  The puppy's played with each other for a bit and after that we played pass the puppy. This was to get the puppy's used 

to other people. next it was time to look around the vets.

First we went to the kennels and saw Alfie who is one of the vets dog, from the kennels we went to the x-ray room Finn didn't like it much, then we went to the operating theatre there was a small toy dog on one of the tables and I learnt wear they check the  pulse of a dog, then we went to room 1 and there were worms and ticks in tubes on the table I guest that the ticks were female and the vet was surprised that I was right (I have read about ticks though). Finn hated it in there too. When we went back into the main room there were six goodie bags two for each dog oh good news too Freya's five and Finn was on the lead for the first time 

The New And The Old

Today me and my Nan went for a very early morning walk round the lake, by early I mean we got out at 7:15. We went on the walk because I like walking, I like nature and I like animals 

On our walk we came across a greylag goose gosling and two greylag geese. It was the first greylag gosling that we've seen on the lake here are some facts about them. They eat things such as grass, roots, cereal leaves and spilled grain, they have a wing span of 147-180 cm  oh and they are the largest of the wild geese native to the UK. They are quite rare on our lake because it is mostly Canadian geese but we have got two grebes and several swans 

We were about half way through the walk when I saw two cygnets and a female swan I think that they were mute swans too. did you know that they have a wingspan of 208-238 and they eat: water plants, insects and snails.

             

we also saw a grey heron which we haven't seen for ages
it was in mating season I think and heirs some of the things
he eats: fish, voles and frogs   there wingspan is 175-195cm
and there are over 13,000 heron nests in the UK      

Science Experiments

On Thursday we had a science lesson at my house containing me, my sister, my friend and her brother . At first we cut out some pictures of house hold things such as: food, bleach, baking powder and a few kinds of drinks.

 Next we tested some things like: tomatoes, washing up liquid, lemon juice, salt water, as well as other bits and bobs. The lemon juice has a ph of 1 (ph meaning power of   hydrogen), The tomato had a ph of 4-5 we also tried orange juice and it had a ph of three.When we had finished that me and my friend got a crossword 

Clumber Park

On Monday we went to Clumber Park with my sister my friend and my friends mum and brother. At Clumber Park we had a picnic and there were greylag geese and they wanted our food. There was also a young squirrel who took some of my sandwich I gave my friends brother some of my sandwich to give to the squirrel after that we went to a woodland play area and me and my friends brother blew
bubbles and saw who could blow the biggest bubble.We went on a boat that had information on like when the river is low you can see the remains of a old boat that sank.

 We went on a brige that has been wrecked because some one drove back and forth and wrecked the brige there were lodes of notes saying things like we hope it is rebuilt soon and that kind of thing.
Clumber park brige is over 250 years old though

A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah lean

I got A Dog Called Homeless from my public library and it is the  longest book I have read.

This is how the story starts, My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I have not spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn't always make things happen,however much you want it to. think of the rain; it just happens when it happens. when the clouds are ready, when they're full, they drop the water. It's not magic; it's just putting something back where it belongs. 

Cally can see her mum who has been dead for a year but no on believes her so she stops talking. she sees her mum with a wolf hound and a tramp called Jed in the end it turned out that the wolf hound was a gift to cally from her mum and Jed looked after the dog and was trying to find Cally     

 I think it is lovely book and the best one yet I think it would be for 8 up and give it 5 out of 5

my dog likes reading it to

Puppies

On Friday the sixth of April Freda had a litter of nine puppies. Four boys and five girls.  Loki is the dad

• the first puppy is a girl she was born at 10:54 
• the second puppy was  a boy and he was born at 11:38 
• the third puppy was a girl and she was born at 12:26 
• the fourth  puppy was a girl and she was born at 12:54 
• the fifth puppy was a girl and she was born at 13:54 
• the sixth puppy was a boy and he was born at 14:16 
• the seventh was a girl and she was born at  15:25 (she is huge) 
•  the eighth puppy was  a boy and he was born at 19:17 (he was late so we thought that there was only seven puppies)
• the ninth puppy was  a boy and he was born at 20:00 

They are so cute but there eyes are closed for one to two weeks but the hearing is gained at three weeks. Puppies cant see, hear or walk properly our youngest is only forty three hours old but we take shifts to  make sure Freda doesn't lie on them and hurt them. there will be lodes of changes in them they will learn to walk and they will be able to hear and see.

puppy's are so cute

Freda with her puppy's 

          

Chester Zoo

We went to Chester zoo with by best friend on Monday. We saw loads of animals including a cheater (cheater's are my favourite animals) and elephants with there big trunks and small ones to. There were also bats. I did not want to go in the bat cave because it was dark and I don't like  things that move in the dark.

We saw monkeys and there was one bit in the monkey house that had two big snakes that are huge but the orangutans are so much like a human but an orangutan is not a chatter box like some humans and humans don't swing from rope to rope. We also saw a big house full of fat buffaloes.

There were some monkeys that have hit the glass that lets you look at the monkeys. Ok the adult monkeys aren't cute but the baby's are. Hear are some pictures.

 elephants with there big trunks and small ones

 oranguta             

snake 

tiger