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The Planet Problem

National Young Writers Award

At school we had this competition, the National Young Writers Award, where you had to write a 500 word story about what it might be like in 3017. Here’s my story:

The Planet Problem

Over the hills, there was an enormous banana milkshake house with a Kitkat poking out of it and who lived in it you ask? Well, only a man called Shakana or as his friends called him Nana. Nana was a Gaygun, a species of human, which can live to be nine hundred and ninety nine million years old. Nana was a kind, elderly worker who sold… yes you guessed it: Banana milkshakes with Kitkat’s in! Shakana also invented a suit (that he used often) called the Inveople. The last Inveople had not done anything, this new one worked when it had been filled up with banana milkshakes. First, let me tell you what the Inveople does; the Inveople makes you really strong and Invisible, when wearing it! Shakana also had the latest transport: the Rhubarb, powered by rhubarb crumble. In all, Shakana was a happy man and got lots of customers because, he made the best milkshakes in the world. He had robots, which sold milkshakes in every town, village or city.

After he’d bought the rhubarb, he decided to swap the Earth and Mercury’s positions so; he could see life develop in different years. However, there was one problem: he would wipe out all the organisations on Earth and that would be horrendous!!! Swiftly, he made nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine litres of rhubarb crumble. When he had stored it all in the fuel tank of the rhubarb –it can fit anything in- he let the Earth in. Although afraid, the people on Earth, stupidly, didn’t try to do anything. “THIS IS BAD!!!”Everyone was saying. Everywhere was chaotic. Even though, the world was about to end, lots of people tried to get on with daily life. They did it to get enough money to make rhubarb crumbles to power their rhubarbs and to calm down. Everything was being sold; people were crazy but every one decided to get one thing especially: the Producer. The Producer produces anything in an instant and’s very small and handy.

Well, because everybody was buying a Producer all was bad; people had to make more Producers by using a Producer to make a Producer to give to the people without a Producer. The stalls were nowhere near as chaotic except all Nana’s milkshake stalls. You couldn’t get any in Producer’s because they were too hard to make, so everyone was buying them. Anyway, Shakana was having another problem, he couldn’t move the Earth or Mercury. Thank goodness, the worlds were saved, which was an enormous relief for everyone as they could live on. Shakana was furious so he packed up and decided to go to Mercury with his milkshakes for aliens (aliens love milkshakes.)

Shakana knew that aliens loved milkshakes. He got into his fully loaded (so he thought) rhubarb and it wouldn’t go. He tried again. Nothing. He checked the fuel, empty. His storage of rhubarb crumble? Empty. OH NO…

Hope you like it.

Film Recommendations

My top 3 films so far this year are: The Lego Batman movie, Rogue One and Sing.

1.The Lego Batman movie is number 1 for all lego / batman fans and hilarious.
I give this film 5 stars out of 5!

Lego Batmn Movie

2. Rogue One, the best star wars film yet the young Jyn Erso finds her dad has turned to the dark side…
I give this film 4 stars out of 5.

Rogue One

3. Sing is excellent for music and animal fans. There’s a disaster but, it manages to be sorted out…
I give this film 2 stars out of 5.

Sing

On the star wars website I made this helmet:

My Rogue One helmet

My Crackery Christmas Day 2016

When I woke up in the morning I felt a tinge of excitement! It was Christmas Day and I had a stocking full of presents, with an extra one next to it. I opened the big one first and it was a Star Wars bin, my other presents were: a Star Wars light-up light saber, pirate badges, rubbers, a game where you have to put facial hair on a man using a magnetic stylus and loads of other cool stuff.

For breakfast we had a special christmas porridge, it was delicious!

Then, I got my presents off mummy and daddy, my favourite things were: a potato clock, books, a 3 in 1 set of Lego, a card game called Boggle Slam, where you have to change a word one letter at a time until you run out of cards.

my new pyjamas

presents

one of my books

After that, we had our traditional Christmas dinner (smoked salmon and watercress salad, which had orange in)

Afterwards, we went to grandma’s house for tea. My Auntie Lisa, Uncle Ryan and cousin Scarlett were already there. I got some more really good stuff like a Star Wars movie projector and star wars battle ships. I’m really bad at it.

Finally, we had Christmas tea, which was roast turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, parsnips and stuffing. I really liked it!😋

christmas tea-table

roast turkey

For dessert we had christmas pudding and christmas cake. It was delectable.

christmas pudding

This christmas was absolutely brilliant!

Many thanks for everything you got me. I love everything.

Ecstatic Christmas Eve

Before dinner we went out to Manchester and took a tram to Didsbury Village (Middle Didsbury).

christmas lights

When we arrived I saw we were outside Solita, but then we went to it’s next door neighbour Hispi (a type of cabbage and a restaurant) I had apple juice and Ginger beer, whilst I looked at the menu. For starters I had a spiced pork and pistachio terrine, orange jelly and fruit bread, which was delicious.

pistachio and pork terrine, orange jelly and fruit bread

Then my main course was a celeriac with salad, which was the best I’d tasted.

celeriac

Our shared sides were, chips, carrots and red cabbage.

After that, for desserts I had some Eccles cake with vanilla Ice cream, parkin and butterscotch with vanilla ice cream and christmas pudding.

parkin

Eccles Cake

All of it was delicious and I would love to go back, everything was really nice.

Then we took the tram back to manchester and went to Brewdog. There was unlimited pinball. I had loads of goes but I’m really bad at it but it is really fun.

pinball at brewdog

When we got back home I got a book and some new pyjamas. Then we watched the Simpsons, The Snowman and The Snowman and The Snowdog, whilst having my Malteser Teaser reindeer and a cadbury chocolate snowball. I can’t wait for Christmas morning.

Amazing Advent Calendars

On December 1st I got an enormous surprise because guess what, I had two advent calendars waiting for me, one was a Maltesers one and the other a LEGO Star Wars advent calendar.

The LEGO Star Wars one had cool gifts in for example a white Wookiee, my favourite, Luke Skywalker, ships and loads more really cool stuff. I really enjoyed opening them, it was even better than my lego one last year.

My lego star wars advent calendar

Tom Gates Comp

In August I entered a Tom Gates competition and guess what…I was a Runner-up and won the whole series, which is eleven books (I have seven). My favourite book, so far, is the seventh one “A Tiny bit lucky.” HOORAY!!!

My books

Breathtaking Bonfire Night And My Spooky Halloween

On Halloween I went to the monster mash at my school in a werewolf costume and made a pumpkin.

my pumpkin

me in my werewolf costume

On Bonfire night, we went to cafe Beermoth for a quick drink and tea and then we walked down to a tram station to take a tram to Heaton park. When we got there we wandered around trying to find the place where the bonfire display was, which was brilliant, then we watched some fabulous fireworks.

The bonfire with Guy Fawkes on

Fireworks

It was all amazing. Sadly it was time to go.

It was the best Bonfire night EVER!

Dinosaur News

At the weekend, I got this dinosaur set called Dinosaur DNA.

Dinosaur DNA

I had to excavate a plaster block, which contained dinosaur bones and DNA stickers.

me excavating

Once excavated, I had to put the bones together to create a T-Rex.

ecxavated bones

The skeleton glows in the dark.

dinosaur skeleton about to eat up archaeologist lego man

Then I had two A R play mats and I had to stick the DNA stickers over the question marks. After that, I had to download the app called Dino Codes and scan the play mats, one features the set’s dinosaur and the other is a mysterious scene, mine were a volcano and a T-Rex.

jungle

volcanic planet

breaking news

dragon and volcano

Volcano

It was amazing and I would love to get the other two sets.

The Mermaid

In September I went to The Mermaid in Ellington.

The Mermaid

I had an apple and raspberry dink whilst we ordered. For starters I had some bread with pumpkin seeds, freshly baked, with butter, which was delicious!

Pumpkin seeds on bread

We also got some sides which were homemade pitta, prawns and sweet ginger jam, Halloumi Pakora, Dolmades and whitebait.

Halloumi Pakora

Dolmades

prawns with ginger jam

whitebait with tartare sauce

homemade pitta and hummus

Then for main course I had sausages and mash with peas set out like a boat.

For dessert I had two ice creams which were purple carrot and lemongrass and the other was orange and thyme.

My purple carrot and lemongrass and my orange and thyme ice creams

Georgia’s vanilla tonka bean and her chocolate and cardamom ice cream

Everything was really nice and I wold love to go back.

My Amazing Trip to Scotland Part 2

Aberdeen

After we went to Edinburgh we went to Aberdeen and we stayed in a really nice apartment. The day after we arrived in Aberdeen we went out to a park and there was a kind gardener who gave us some freshly grown peas right out of the pods. I went on some slides as wel,l which were amazing, so were the winter gardens, which house the largest cacti garden in the whole of the UK!

Duthie Park

slide through wall

my new house

playground

cacti garden

Winter gardens

venus fly trap

winter gardens

me hugging a sad lion

tortoises

froggy

waterfalls

Then after dinner we went to the Aberdeen science centre and there was loads of cool things to do and we went to watch two shows a space show and an experiment show.

3D tic tac toe

making bubbles

planets and my skeleton

me being a fungus

making sounds

Aberdeen science centre

Then we went for tea at a Japanese restaurant called Yatai Izakaya and we had some edamame and miso soup and lots of other stuff.

Japanese lemonade

ribs

mushrooms and sweet potatos

sushi

The next day me, Georgia and Mummy went to Codonas amusement park. There were loads of good rides like the looping star roller coaster, the pirate island adventure golf, dead man’s drop tower, disco waltzers, vertigo aerial assault course, white water log flume and the galleon flying pirate ship, we also went in the animal barn and the XD motion cinema. The XD film was about a dinosaur safari escape! To take a look at the map click here.

Codonas

vertigo aerial assault course

Pirate adventure golf

Then for tea we went to a restaurant called The Boozy Cow and I had a Nutella doughnut, reese’s pieces and kinder Bueno milkshake whilst we looked at the menu. For my main course I had a maple bacon cheese burger, which included cheese, onion, pickles, bacon and other stuff.

The Boozy Cow

my maple bacon cheese burger

sweet potato chips

I loved it in Scotland and Aberdeen!

I WANT to go back!!!