One out of 8

Fishing

2011-09-18T21:43:00.000-07:00

At our house, the latest thing has been fishing at the local jetty. Nearly every afternoon my two brothers, younger sister, Grace, and I finish up our school work early go fishing.
So far we have caught and turtle, (which we hooked on the back leg), and eel, and a couple bream.

This is the bream I caught.

And I also caught the eel. I must say it's not the prettiest thing in the world.

Photo

2011-09-13T01:19:00.000-07:00

I thought I should do another post. But I don't know what to post about, so here is just a random photo I took a few months ago.

Sweet Shot Tuesday

2011-09-05T23:01:00.000-07:00

I took these in our garden this afternoon.

Sharing with Sweet Shot Tuesday

Caption Contest!!

2011-09-05T22:06:00.000-07:00

Just a quick little note, the end date for my caption contest is now the 13 of Sep.

Caption contest!!

2011-08-24T17:29:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd have a little caption contest.

Here are the pictures.

10.

I think you all know the rules.

The competition end on the 2nd of September.

This Morning

2011-08-09T18:10:00.000-07:00

This morning I went out and tried taking some more macro shots.

These are a few of my best.

The little stems of a Clover Flower.

Zoomed right in on a Coriander flower.

A little honey bee helping it's self to the flowering broccoli.

I think they look pretty good.

The two others below are ones I took yesterday.

Macro Shot

2011-08-09T00:08:00.000-07:00

I took this photo this afternoon.

It's a caterpillar. Really it's about 2cm long.

I think it looks rather cool.

My Mummy's Blog

2011-07-29T02:24:00.001-07:00

During the time that I wasn't posting my fantastic Mummy started a blog.

Click here to pop over and have a look.

Have a Guess

2011-07-27T18:48:00.001-07:00

This is a photo I took a little while ago.

Can you guess which one is the right way up??

I'm Back......I Hope

2011-07-27T03:52:00.000-07:00

Well I'm back..... I hope.

I'm so sorry for not posting for ......1...2..3...4....umm...OH MY WORD!!! 9 months!!! I don't know how I am ever going to forgive myself................................. I think you'll all be happy to know that I have just forgiven myself.

I'm going to try really hard to get back into blogging.

However as for now I'm going to fix up a few things around my blog.

Some Jokes

2010-10-14T17:17:00.000-07:00

This is a funny joke I was told a while ago.

Ok...... Three men were set a challenge to go to the desert for three months. There was a German, an Italian, and an Aussie. However, they were only aloud to take ONE thing with them.

The German said "I'm going to take water, lots and lots of water".

Then the Italian said "I'm going to take ice, lots and lots of ice".

Then they both asked the Aussie what he was going to take. The Aussie said "I'm going to take a car door", "What on earth for??"

asked both the German and Italian, "Why when it gets hot I'll just wind down the window!!!"

HAHAH. Here are a few more.

"Doctor Doctor, everyone says I'm a liar"

"I don't believe it!"

"Doctor Doctor, I feel like there is two of me!"

"One at a time please"

"Doctor Doctor, I think I need glasses"

" You sure do sir, this is a fish and chips shop!"

"Doctor Doctor, everyone keeps ignoring me"

"Next please"

Why do doctors always wear masks for operations??

So that if they make mistake the patient doesn't know who did it.

Why did the doctor creep past the medicine room??

Because he didn't wan to wake the sleeping pills.

Well thats all for now. I hope you liked them.

Sorry!!!

2010-10-14T17:13:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone. I'm so sorry for not posting in ages. It's hard having a twin sister who has a blog and always posts about something that I was going to post about. (Not saying it's her fault).

I'll try to post at least once a week.

Wednesday Photo Winner

2010-09-23T16:20:00.000-07:00

The winner of this weeks Wednesday photo is.........

GRACE!!!!!

Well done Grace. You are next weeks judge.

Wednesday Photo!

2010-09-21T13:10:00.000-07:00

Today is the Wednesday photo.

1.Take a photo of something really cool, random, unique, interesting, etc..........

2.No copying other peoples photo.

3.Title your post "Wednesday Photo".

4.Be creative.

5.You have to have your photo on your blog by the end of the day if you want to enter.

6. The winner of this week gets to judge next weeks "Wednesday Photo".
Please tell me if you have entered, and anyone can enter.

Wednesday Photo

2010-09-14T16:14:00.000-07:00

This week CB is the judge for the Wednesday photo. So if your new to this have a look at his blog to learn the rules.

Ok, the is my photo.

I actually took this photo a few minutes ago. If you click on the photo it should give you a better look.

Wednesday Photo

2010-09-07T16:35:00.000-07:00

This is my Wednesday Photo.

My New Signature!

2010-09-02T17:39:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone. Sorry I haven't posted for a while.

I just want to thank Rose for making me this Signature (Thanks heaps Rose)!

What do you think guys?? I LOVE it!!

Wednesday's Photo!

2010-08-24T17:11:00.000-07:00

Today is Wednesday photo!!

Anyone can do this. Here are the rules.

1.Take a photo of something really cool, random, unique, interesting, etc..........

2.No copying other peoples photo.

3.Title your post "Wednesday Photo".

4.Be creative.

5.You have to have your photo on your blog by the end of the day if you want to enter.

6. The winner of this week gets to judge next weeks "Wednesday Photo".

Here is my photo!!

Yesterday I was cutting open a pawpaw when I saw the star in it, so I just thought it would make an interesting photo.

This week CB is judge, so if you would like to try it, leave a comment on his blog.

Whats happening with my sport.

2010-08-19T13:54:00.000-07:00

I thought I would do a post just letting you know whats happening in my sport.

Well tomorrow Grace and I play our second last game of hockey. (If you didn't understand that, our next game is our last.

Our hockey season hasn't been the best, but it's been a lot of fun.

That's a photo of Brent Livermore. He plays for Australia, and he comes from where I live.

On Sunday, Grace and I have another cricket trial. We're hoping to get into a girls U/14s rep side, which will be representing our area in a comp they call the "Country Championship". If we get in and do well at that, we will then go on to play "The City". I think that's how it will run, I'm sure.

The local cricket season starts in about a month. I'm playing U/14s. They will be mixed teams. (Boys and Girls).

I might even be playing U/12s, because my little brother wants to play cricket, though he doesn't want to play by himself.

Last but not least, we start sailing again!!! Last year we started sailing, but it was a very short season for us because we went on holidays. Sailing is on Saturday afternoons. I'm really looking forward to learning how to sail.

This is the type of boat I'll be sailing.

Now you know what iI'm up to in my sport.

Wednesday Photo Winner

2010-08-18T13:55:00.000-07:00

The winner of this weeks Wednesday photo, and the judge for next week is................

CB!!!!

This is his photo.

And a big thanks to everyone who entered.

Today Is Wednesday Photo

2010-08-17T17:15:00.000-07:00

Today is wednesday photo day!!

Anyone can do this.

The rules are easy.

1.You have to take a random photo of something really cool, interesting, random, or unique.

2.No copying other peoples photo.

3.Title your post "Wednesday Photo".

4. Be creative.

5.If you want to enter, you have to have the post done by the end of the day.

6. The winner gets to judge next weeks "Wednesday photo".

Ok, you know the rules.

When you've done yours, please leave a comment to let me know.

Good luck!!

Wednesday Photo

2010-08-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

Just A quick reminder that tomorrow is the Wednesday photo day.

I Won!!

2010-08-12T00:19:00.000-07:00

I won Annie's Wednesday photo. Annie and I have decided that who ever wins is the judge for the next week.

So I'm next weeks judge.

I'll do a reminder post just to remind you about the contest on Tuesday.

Contest

2010-08-11T04:09:00.000-07:00

Just a quick reminder, no one has entered this weeks caption contest.

Fantasy Tag

2010-08-11T03:55:00.000-07:00

Thanks Vellvin.

I don't there are an rules to this, so I guess I'll get started.

1. What is your fantasy name?

Don' have one

2. What would your fantasy novel be about?

Don't know

3. If you could have one mystical creature as a pet, what would it be?

Sentor

4. Do you believe dragons are good or evil?

Good

5. Knights and castles or Elves and goblins?
Knights and Castles.

Knights and castles

6. What is your favorite myth, and what is the origin?

7. Would you read Alyson's Asteria stories if they were on her blog again?

I don't know her blog

8. Did you read them when they were on her blog?
No

BONUS QUESTION (has nothing to do with fantasy)

9. Are you a Switchfoot fan?
No, but my big sister is nuts over them.

I tag:

Rose

I would tag other people, though they have already been tagged.

My Potato's!!

2010-08-10T19:47:00.000-07:00

Today I dug up three of my potato's. I planted about five potato's a few months ago, just hoping I might get a few potato's from the plants. Well today I got a big surprise when Grace spotted a potato peeping out of the soil.

My Mum said it would be ok if I dug it up. Well this is what I got (theres a picture of the plants too).

I was so surprised when I saw heaps more potato's as I was digging up the other three.

One reason why I like growing potato's (this would be my fourth season when I've tried to grow potato's) is all you have to do is put the potato's in a dark place, forget about them, rediscover them (by now they should have roots growing out of them), plant the potato's and watch them grow, I mean you don't need to do anything at all really.

You guys should give it a go. You might be surprised :).

Magellan

2010-08-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

Magellan was a portuguese sailor who wanted to go to India. He new of another sailor who had sailed around Africa and up to India, but it took him a year to do so. Magellan thought he could get to India a lot faster if he went west, hoping to find a river and cut through America (Which Christopher Columbus discovered on his attempt to go to India in 1492).

It took Magellan 18 months to get ready for this monster of a voyage. Magellan left from Spain on the 20th on September 1519. He took five ships and two hundred and eighty men with him.

The first few days of the voyage were peaceful and quiet. But when Magellan was arriving at his first destination, Tenerife, he got word that three of his captain’s were plotting to kill him. Magellan knew who the captains were and had an idea on when he thought the would attack him.

He called a meeting to talk about the next stage of the voyage, and sure enough the captains tried to start an argument. But Magellan stayed cool and agreed to every thing they said. He was quite humiliated, but he was still alive.

For a while the captains still tried to provoke Magellan. However one time one captain went too far and asked for mutiny (to start a rebellion against the boss). This was the opportunity Magellan had been waiting for. He arrested the captain, and had put in chains behind bars. Seeing what Magellan had done, the other two captains dismissed the plot.

Magellan reached the Americas and sailed down the coast looking for a river which cut through the land to the other side. However, each river he found and sailed into led to a dead end.

When Magellan was down to the very southern tip of South America he found a river which cut through the land and to the other side. However while he was in the river it was very stormy and the water was very choppy and rough. In fact, the water was so rough Magellan’s row boats had to pull the ship along the river. It took Magellan a whole three months to sail down this river. Today we call this river the “Straits of Magellan”.

When Magellan reached the end of the river, the Ocean was so calm and peaceful that Magellan named it the “Pacific Ocean” (this means calm).By this time Magellan’s sailors were over and done with the voyage and begged Magellan to let them turn the ship around and go home, but Magellan refused. He was sure that India was close by, but it wasn’t.

He and his sailors kept sailing for another three months. They ran out of food and became so hungry that they were eating sawdust!! They almost ran out of water. Then at long last they sighted land!

While his men were busy loading up with fresh food and water, Magellan realized that he had not reached India, he was in fact on a group of islands not far off China!! (Today we call these islands the Marianas.)

He and his men boarded their ships and sailed on. A few days later they sighted another group of islands. Magellan thought for sure this was India. But it wasn’t, he had reached the Philippines!

By this time Magellan was wondering if he would ever reach India. Well I’ll tell you now he never did. While gathering food and water in the Philippines, he agreed to help a village chief fight with another tribe. He and his men were out numbered and had to retreat to their boats. Well Magellan was killed during the retreat.

Magellan’s lieutenant continued on the journey. Out of the 5 ships and 280 men Magellan started out with, his lieutenant reached India with one ship and thirty-five men.

After reaching India the lieutenant continued on going west and went back up to Africa and finally reached Portugal.

All up, the voyage took three years.

Even though Magellan died before reaching India, his ship was the very first ship to have ever sailed around the world.

By Naomi McDonald 10-8-10

Info from The Story Of The World by Susan Wise Bauer, and Fredinand Magellan by Struan Reid.

Wednesday's Photo!

2010-08-10T17:43:00.000-07:00

Well thats my picture. I took it a little while back when this little guy was climbing up the railing on our stairs. I just thought it shows a bit of detail you don't always see.

You can click the picture to get a closer view.

A giveaway!!

2010-08-09T14:53:00.000-07:00

For you girls out their if you want to try and win a bag or a pretty necklace check out:

Content In Christ

Aspire

Good luck!!

Tag!!

2010-08-08T01:56:00.000-07:00

This is a tag Grace made up.

The rules are simple all you have to do is...

1. List 10 or more facts about your selves.

2. Make this tag open to anyone.

Ok lets go.

1.I have blonde hair

2.I can play bass, acoustic and a bit of electric guitar

3.I can sing ok

4.I'm good at sport

5.I'm home schooled

6.I love the beach

7.I'm very short for my age

8.I love dogs

9.I hate to wear girly clothes( dresses, skirts).

10.I love to swim

As I said earlier any one can do this.

Caption Contest Winner

2010-08-08T01:45:00.000-07:00

CB!!

Oh No what can I say to Gibson, he is there. He'll be wondering where I was.

You can put this on your blog if you want.

Now for this weeks picture.

Caption contest!!

2010-08-01T19:53:00.001-07:00

Here is this weeks picture.

Have fun!

The Winner Is.....

2010-07-29T21:22:00.000-07:00

GRACE!!

Congrats Grace.

Miss Potter "Errrrrrrrrr..... Thats a little odd, I don't remember Peter Rabbit have a girl friend!?!?!"

Mr Warne "How very strange!"

Please put this on your blog.

Caption contest!!

2010-07-26T15:24:00.000-07:00

I've decided, to try and get me to post more often, I'll hold a caption contest every Monday and announce the winner at the end of the week.

Lets go.

As you can see I am only going to do one picture to make it easy.

Have Fun!!

Tagged

2010-07-25T17:25:00.000-07:00

Thanks Grace.

Ok lets go.

1.Would you rather swim at a beach or in a pool?

Beach.

2.What colour is your hair?

Blonde.

3.What is your favourite book?

The Lost Baron.

4.Have you flown in a plane before?

No.

5.What is your favourite colour?

Blue.

6.Adventure or Romance?

Adventure.

7.Laptop or a desk computer?

Laptop.

8.What is your talent?

Sport, guitar, and singing

9.What colour are your eyes?

Green.

10.What do you love doing most?

Playing hockey, cricket, and soccer.

Ok, now for my Qs

1.Do you have to wear glasses?

2.Joggers or thongs?

3.Cats or dogs?

4.Would you have watermelon or mangos?

5.Do you play a sport?

6. Do you lik to cook?

7. Cricket, soccer or footy?

8.Would you rather read a comic or chapter book?

9. Long or short hair?

10,Typing or writing?

I tag

Elise

Tully

Annie

There, finished.

Sorry!

2010-07-25T17:24:00.000-07:00

Hi guys.

So sorry I haven't done a post in ages.

I'll try to post more often.

Voyage of the dawn treader trailer.

2010-06-17T17:04:00.000-07:00

The Voyage of the dawn treader trailer is out!!

Click here to see it.

Hockey

2010-06-15T19:27:00.000-07:00

Grace and I are playing hockey again this year. Our team is on the bottom of the ladder though :(.

Hockey is a great sport because it a fast game, it keeps you fit, and you can very easily enjoy playing it.

Grace and I have missed a few games dew to rain, so this weekend we are playing three games ( Fri, Sat and Sun) then we have training on Monday. I'm sure I'll be dead by Tuesday. Although playing three games we should hopefully win at least one game..... I hope.

My Caption Contest

2010-06-09T17:40:00.000-07:00

The winners are....

Annie: 1. Stay behind me....... I am so handsome hopefully it will refuse to eat me!

Vellvin: 2.Oh dear! Is that a pimple on my face?!?!

Lady Milisande Awnia Grim: 3. You see I was raised in the circus and that's why all birds love me!

Vellvin: 4. Giddy up pony! Giddy up!

Grace: 5. You know what, I think your perfect.

Vellvin: 6. You Look terrible!

CB: 7. I never knew that frost kills tomato's.

Grace: 8. What are you laughing at???

CB: 9. Don't hurt him, he is my best horse.

CB: 10. Don't be stupid, I saw the answer

Well there are all my winners.

Sorry, but I couldn't the of a reward.

Australia's Got Talent

2010-06-08T20:10:00.000-07:00

We have been watching the TV program Australia's got talent. It was the Grand Final last night and the were some stunning performances, but our favorite by far was Justice Crew.

Book Review: Courage To Run, By Wendy Lawton

2010-06-07T18:09:00.000-07:00

Courage to run is based on the story of Harriet Tubman.

A little girl called Minty whose parents are in slavery, helps her mother look after the workers baby's. Minty has always had a dream to be free.

When Minty is still young she is hired out to work for Mr and Mrs Cook. Mrs Cook is a very harsh woman and was never good to Minty. Minty ends up getting very ill. Mr and Mrs Cook decided to take Minty back home.

After Minty recovered, Mr Cook came to fetch her to take her back to work for Mrs Cook again. Her stay with the Cooks was worse than before. She shivered in winter and sweats in summer, and Mrs Cook was always handing out unfair punishments.

At Last Minty’s hire finished and her mother and another worker came to pick her up. But she didn't even get to go home. Her mother had come because Minty was to be taken straight to work for someone else.

Minty was to work for Miss Susan who had a little baby and she wanted a house maid to to help with the baby and house work. Minty learnt a lot from Miss Susan's sister Emily who lived with Miss Susan for the time being. Miss Susan was not as harsh as Mrs Cook, although she still gave Minty a whip around the neck at night if the baby had woken her and Minty was still asleep, but Minty learnt to sleep lightly.

One day Miss Susan was having tea with her friends. When Miss Susan's friends were gone she told Minty to take the tea and food down to the kitchen. While Minty was doing this she spotted the sugar cube bowl, she had never tasted sugar before, so she put a cube in the pocket of her apron. Miss Susan was standing inside the door way at the time and saw Minty take the cube. Miss Susan started to shout at her. Half frightened to death Minty ran passed Miss Susan and out the door and ran away.

After a week or two Minty knew she would not be able to survive. So she went to Miss Susan's house. Miss Susan was so angry with Minty that she just simply took her back to her master.

The years went on. Minty's master hardly hired Minty out if at all because he felt sorry for her because of how badly treated she was with the Cook's and Miss Susan.

When Minty was thirteen she was given her adult name "Harriet". Harriet grew to be really strong, she was as strong as any man on the plantation. Harriet's master gave her the job of working with her father (which she was very happy to do).

One day there was a slave running away from an overseer, the slave ran into a shop hoping to hide. But the overseer knew the slave was in there, so he went in after him. Harriet had followed the overseer to see what would happen. When the overseer had the slave cornered he told Harriet to hold the slave so he could tie him up (For he intended to whip the slave). Harriet didn't want to do it. While the overseer was shouting a Harriet to do as he said, the slave bolted out the door and got away. This made the overseer so mad, he picked up one of the heaviest weights in the shop and threw it at her. The weight hit her in the head.

The blow of the weight left a hole in her head. She got very sick.

When Minty finally understood what had happened she realized that she had been sick for months. Harriet had brain damage, this meant that at any time she could have a sleeping fit and and go in to a really deep sleep. She started to regain her strength and remember things.

The book ends there.

Harriet Tubman is known for leading over three hundred people out of slavery through the Underground Railroad.

It's a great book, and I recommend reading it.

Caption Contest!!

2010-06-02T01:12:00.000-07:00

Since a lot of bloggers I know are doing all these different contest I thought I would do a caption contest. You probably know what to do, you leave a comment make up what you think the people in the pictures are saying or thinking.

10.

I will do a post with the winners next week.

Enjoy!

Chainmail

2010-05-25T21:39:00.000-07:00

This is some chainmail Grace my brother and I made while ago. We learnt how to make it at a homeschooling medieval day, and one of the activities you could do was to learn how to make chainmail. We only made a tiny bit at first but then we kept on doubling it. As you can see it's lost a few rings here and there, and in area's it's a bit tangled. We have never made any more since though.

Sunshine Award

2010-05-25T01:21:00.000-07:00

Thanks Vellvin

1. Post the logo on your blog and/or within the post.
2. Pass it on to 12 other bloggers.
3. Add links to these 12 bloggers within your blog.
4. Let them know they are receiving the award.
5. Share the link of the person from whom you received the award.

I award:

Shannon

Siminy

Lady Milisande Awnia Grim

Enbrethiliel

Elise.

Cricket Trial

2010-05-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

On Sunday Grace and I are going to a cricket trial in a town over two hours away. The trial is for a regional girls cricket team. I am looking forward to it. I think Grace and I have a even chance on getting through (I hope!!), although I'm trying not to get my expectations up to high.

Wish us luck!!

Robin Hood Season 3 Here At Last

2010-05-16T21:52:00.000-07:00

Robin Hood season three is here at long last. I have been waiting for what seems like years for it to come out on TV. It is on ABC2 at 7:30 Saturday night.

My New Background

2010-05-13T21:52:00.000-07:00

I hope you all like my new background.

I wasn't going to change it but I put the title background on but it just didn't look right with my other background.

Going public

2010-05-11T22:29:00.000-07:00

I am thrilled that at last I have made my blog public!!

I hope you all like it.

The ipad

2010-05-05T00:37:00.000-07:00

Grace and I can't wait until apples new ipad comes out. Hopefully we will be allowed to get one each. They would be so useful since there are so many people in our family wanting to use the computers we have. We have our main computer (which is a mac) and a laptop (which is so slow to start.

Do they look good or what!!

What do you think of them??

I type 28 words a minute

2010-05-05T00:27:00.000-07:00

How many words can you type every minute??

You might have seen the ad on the side panel saying that I can type twenty eight words a minute.

Have you tried it??

How many words can you type a minute??

My top 5 movies I really want to see.

2010-04-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

There are heaps of movies I want to see. but here's are few of them.

Even though bolt has been out for a little while, we still have not seen it.

I can't wait till the Voyage Of The Dawn Treader comes out.

I love the toy story movies.

Shrek four will be out soon. But I not certain it's going to be as good as the other.

And last but no least Cloudy Meat Balls, I haven't seen or heard much about, though what I have seen and heard looks really good.

Well there's my top five.

Beatiful Blogger Award

2010-04-19T16:17:00.000-07:00

Thanks Annie

Since I got this award I must:

* Add a link and a note of thanks to the one who gave you the award

* Pass the award on to 15 others whose blogs you have recently discovered that you really like

* Share 7 things about yourself

1. I love to play cricket

2. I love to play hockey

3. I like athletics

4. I love the beach

5. I like to play guitar

6. I like to play keyboard

7. I like to sing

Now all the bloggers I know have already been awarded with this.

If you haven't been awarded with this yet just leave a comment and let me know.

My new background

2010-04-18T19:13:00.000-07:00

I found one that I like.

I hope you like it

My blog background

2010-04-18T17:42:00.000-07:00

I hope your not getting sick of my blog background. I have been looking at others that I could change it to, but there are none that I really like.

If you know of a website that have free blog backgrounds please leave a comment.

Sorry

2010-04-18T17:29:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting anything for ages. My family and I went on holidays for a month and we only got back three weeks ago. Then I went on holidays again to my grandparents house and now the easter holidays have only just finished.

So I am still getting used to being home and getting back into things.

I will try to post more often now.

My Problem with reading books

2010-01-28T18:04:00.000-08:00

I seem to have a massive problem with reading books, I start to read a book and enjoy it but no matter how hard I try I can finish it. I have only ever finished one chapter book in my life.

Elise is always trying to get me to read a book or two, but even if I start reading it I can never finish the book, sometimes I never even reach the half way mark.

I don't know whether it's because I have other interests, get sick of the book, or something else completely.

If you remember I did a post on the Seven Little Australians and the Phantom Toll Booth, well I did the post while I was reading the books but I didn't finish either one of them.

Hopefully one day I will be able to finish another Book. :)

An award

2010-01-28T16:16:00.000-08:00

Thankyou Elise

Now all the girl bloggers I know have all ready been awarded with this so I can't award anyone.

Holidays

2010-01-10T19:08:00.000-08:00

Sorry I haven't posted any thing lately, our family has been away on holidays at our grandparents place.

They have a nice big house on a bay, and live a few minutes from the beach. We did lots of things like fishing, swimming, sailing and other holiday treats like renting movies, having fish and chips, having prawns and going to the beach after dinner.(Since it is was daylight saving).

We all caught a fish each( Well those who went fishing) but only my big brother and I caught a fish that was big enough to eat. I caught a Flathead and my big brother caught a Brim. Although after catching two keepers, we anded up spending $15 on bait.(I wonder if it was worth it.)

The beach was a lot of fun as well, we went swimming, went up to the lookout and looked at rock pools.

All up we had a heap of fun.

Christmas Time

2009-12-15T12:09:00.000-08:00

I simply love Christmas time. Everyone puts up their Christmas tree, put lights around their houses, go Christmas shopping, and all those other things.

We don't put Christmas lights around our house, but we have a big Christmas that we decorate with lights, tinsel, and lots of different decorations. Everyone loves it when we put up our Christmas tree.

Every year a few nights before Christmas we all go for a drive after dinner and look at all the Christmas lights.

On Christmas eve, we go to our church for the Christmas eve service, where Grace, Elise and I play Christmas carols for the church. When we get home and get ready for bed, we make jokes I make jokes with my two brothers that in the middle of the night we'll get up and open our presents to see what we've got, then rap them up again as if we never even touched them.

On Christmas morning, all our brothers and sisters ( apart from Elise) get up really early to look at all the presents under the Christmas tree, though we try really hard not to look at the tags, otherwise depending on who it's for, we try and guess what it is.

Then finally once our mum, dad and Elise a out of bed, we open all the presents. Then we have bacon and eggs for breakfast. For the rest of the day we enjoy our presents or go down to our grand parents house and spend the day there.

So that is what we do at Christmas time.

Cricket

2009-11-24T13:38:00.000-08:00

Grace and I play cricket as a summer sport. We played last year, and our team was hopeless. We only won one game. We have a better team this year though. We play in the u/12s age group.

Each game goes for two weeks, each team gets a 40 over innings. We have twenty over innings each Saturday. Our neighbour plays on our team and his dad coaches the team.

Another rule in the u/12s cricket is you need to retire in the first innings to be able to bat in the second innings.(Unless you don't get a bat in the first innings) You either have to get 25 runs or bat for 10 overs to retire. I have retired in every game. I have only taken two wickets this season, but I'm not a bad blower.

Australia has good cricket team too, one of the best in the world.

Honest Scrap

2009-11-04T16:33:00.000-08:00

I've been tagged by Grace, Thanks Grace

The rules are.....

-Thank the person who gave the award to you.

-Post ten honest facts about yourself.

-Pass the award to seven others.

1: I love sport

2: I love to go too the beach

3: I love swimming

4: I like to make things

5: I'm a chatter box

6:I like interesting toys

7:I hate spelling

8: I like to fiddle with gadgets

9:I like music

10: I am adventurous person

There, that's ten honest things about me.

I tagg Elise, but I don't know any more bloggers,

So if you want to be tagged, please leave a comment.

The Phantom Tollbooth

2009-11-03T19:54:00.000-08:00

Lately I have been reading "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster. It is about a boy called Milo who finds everything boring and a waste of time, he finds a parcel in his room which he open and it becomes a tollbooth and a car, he drives through the tollbooth with his car and.....I won't tell you any more if you want to read it.

I would give the book a 4/5 stars. I recommend you read it

Little house on the prairie

2009-10-19T16:58:00.000-07:00

My family love the TV series made in 1974 called "Little House On The Prairie" It is based on a girl called Laura. we have brought every season up to seven. They are very different to the books but they are such a great family movie.

Most of it is directed by Micheal Landon who plays Pa, Karen Grassle as Ma, Mellissa Sue Anderson as Mary, Melissa Gilbert as Laura, and Sideny Greenbush as Carrie.

We are in the middle of season seven, so far it has all been great.

There we are, all fixed

2009-09-30T13:56:00.001-07:00

I fixed it!!!!

These are some crazy pictures our Dad sent home from work.

Dust storm

2009-09-27T23:51:00.001-07:00

On Wednesday we had a dust storm come through from the bottom of NSW. It was horrible, I had to stay inside due to my asthma. It was really weird because everything look orange and the sun and it's light was blue, it all just looked weird. But in away it was quite fun.

These are pictures from Sydney.

As you can see from the pictures it was pretty bad. Although it wasn't as bad where we live as it was in Sydney. We have already had another dust storm since Wednesday.

I have been tagged....

2009-09-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

My big sister Elise has tagged me.

The rules:

1. List Seven Things That Make You Awe-Summm!
2. Pass the award on to seven bloggers you read religiously.
3. Tag those seven bloggers.

1:I'm a great sportsgirl

2:I have a great family

3:I can play guitar and keyboard

4:I have great friends

5:I'm good at talking

6:I'm good at making soup

7:I'm good at Diabolo

8:I'm good at wrestling my big brother

9:I have the best ever Grandparents

10:I'm a good teacher in Sunday school

There we go all done.

So as you can see, I'm just awesome!!!!

I can't think of anyone to tag

Hockey

2009-08-31T20:12:00.000-07:00

I play hokey for a winter sport along with my twin sister. We both play on the same team. We play on a girls only team. We play with a public school. The girls on the team are really nice.

I have been captain twice and so has my twin sister. I have only scored one goal in the whole season, though my twin sister has scored three. I play a half and my twin sister either plays a wing or a inner.

I play field hockey. This season is my first hockey season and from what I have heard I am doing pretty well. This week is the semi finals, and if we win we go straight through to the grand final. Our team is second on the ladder. The team we are versing are on top of the ladder.

Hockey, I find, is a very fast game, each half is twenty-five minutes and we get about a four minute brake.

If we make it to the grand final I will let you all know.

Narnia

2009-08-06T15:38:00.000-07:00

My family love the books of Narnia by C.S Lewis. We also love the movies. We've seen "The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian".

I love both the movies. They were both done by Disney, but when they finished Prince Caspian, Disney said that they weren't going too make any more of movies because they weren't making enough money from it. I was so angry because the next book is one of the best. Anyway, later on, 20th century fox said that they would make the movies. They are still working on the Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. Here are some pics.

This is the prow of the Dawn Treader

The Dawn Treader

There's still a bit of work to be done, but I think it looks pretty good so far. What do you think?

Home schooling

2009-07-28T03:14:00.000-07:00

I quite like being homeschooled. Although you do have your advantages and your disadvantages, such as you don't have as many friends when your home schooled as when you go to school, or you often don't meet as many people around your age as you would when you go to school.

But there lots of advantages too; first you don't need to go to school and you get more time with your Mum or Dad (who ever teaches you at home) or like how we do it at home, you have a certain amount of work to do, and when you have done it all you get the rest of the day off.

With homeschooling we also do a lot of history learning. My favourite subject would be Maths or history. I hate Spelling and English. We also have a stack of books to do with learning.

Another good thing about homeschooling is that there is no homework.

Everyone has there own school books ,and we all sit in and listen to the history lesson. Another good thing about homeschooling is that if we want to go and visit our grandparents or go wherever, we don't need to worry about school, we just have the day off.

I also really like having all my brothers and sisters all togther in the same room instead of them all in different class rooms.

Also, being homeschooled you get ask a lot of questions like "Do you get too eat when ever you want too"? Or "Can you do your school work in your PJs"? But really I don't see much difference between kids who go to school and kids that are homeschooled.

Really I think that the only difference is that we just do our school work at home.

If you have any questions just leave a comment.

Diabolo

2009-07-23T02:33:00.000-07:00

Most people, I find, don't know what a Diabolo is. Whenever I take it to church, my friends are always asking me what the name is (because they have forgotten) and how I do it, and lots of other questions.

The actual Diabolo is like what they call a butterfly shaped yoyo. Then there are these two sticks with string tied to them.

I also find most people don't know how hard it is to use a Diabolo. At first when I got my Diabolo, well I must say I was hopeless at it. The novelty of it wore of for a while, but lately I have been using it a lot. I was also amazed at how many things you can do with a Diabolo. Although I can only do about ten tricks.

My brother and I have really been getting into Diabolo these last few months. My Brother is really good at it too.

BBC Robin Hood

2009-07-12T23:49:00.000-07:00

I am a big fan of the BBC Robin Hood. I have seen season one and two and I am desperate to see season three. My big sister said that the BBC have finished showing season three in the UK, but we don't know when it will be in Australia

But in the end of season two, Sir Guy of Gisborne kills maid Marian. I think she was killed because the actor was leaving the series. Jonas Armstrong plays Robin hood and Lucy Griffiths plays maid Marian. The series is not very close to the tale of Robin Hood. Like in the third series, my big sister said that Sir Guys sister comes to Nottingham and they finally bring Friar Tuck in to the series. And there is also going to be a new girl called Kate. So it isn't that close to the tale really. But I still really like it.

Our New Roof

2009-07-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

Two or three weeks ago we were having a new roof put on our house. The roof was only finished a few days ago because we had some rain which delayed it a bit.

It was rather noisy when the work men were here, they'd come at 7:30 am and leave at 4:00 pm. So the noisy was on and off all day really, apart from when they had lunch and morning tea. But in ways it was kind of fun seeing the workmen work and seeing how they did things. At one stage we thought that they might fall though the ceiling. Most of the time my little brother and I would sneak down stairs and watch the workmen when we were meant to be doing schoolwork (shhhh).

The workmen would drop nails and screws while they were working, and every afternoon when the workmen had left my little brother would race out the front and pick up as many nails or screws as he could find. Then he would and hide them because our Mum said that we would get 20c for every nail or screw we found.

So it has been quite busy these last few weeks. It was also hard to go out during the day because the workmen either had stuff on the driveway, or you see when the workmen came they closed of the front yard so we had to ask the workmen to open the orange netting so we could go to the shops or go wherever we needed to go.

Now I'm glad it's all over because now we can sleep in "YAY!"

Seven Little Australians

2009-07-08T15:07:00.001-07:00

Lately I have been reading Ethel Turner's Seven little Australians. I was quite suprised by how much I liked it. But I just can't like the fact on how cruel their father Captain Woolcot is to his children and that Judy dies (sigh). I have not quite finished the book, but I only have a few chapters to go.

Now that I'm reading the book I am desperate to get the "Seven little Australians TV series" but I just can't seem to find anywhere that sells it or has it to rent. I would also like to read the sequels so I will have to borrow them from someone.

My big sister Elise runs a book club and they were reading the book and I ask Elise if I could read the book, she said that I could and I have not given it back since.

A bit about me

2009-07-08T02:35:00.000-07:00

Well I am the sort of person who likes pretty much everything. Sometimes I like to dare myself to do crazy things and somtimes I don't feel like doing anything. Somtimes I might be having a great time playing with my twin sister Grace and then the next minute I might be so angry with her (for some reason) that I don't want to even talk to her.