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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

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.

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

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.

LEGOLAND Windsor Resort

The morning after we went to the Hinds Head, we went for a drive and I was super surprised when we arrived at Legoland Windsor Resort! We went on lots of rides mostly lego themed, there were lots of rides – over 55 all together, click here to find out about other rides. There was so much to do that we went for two days.

This is me with a lego pirate

Lego plane

Me battling Darth Vader

Lego city sign

Me sliding instead of going down the steps

Heartlake Harbour Arena

At Heartlake harbour arena we watched a pirate show, which was really funny.😜

Pirate show

Balloon School

Balloon school was a ride where you had to pull a rope to go up and let it go to come back down.

Balloon school

Fire academy

On this you had to put out fire like fire fighters.

Fire fighting

Miniland

Miniland was lots of different places from around the world made of LEG0, like America NASA, which had a countdown timer, when it went to zero there was a rocket which smoke came out of.

Miniland tower bridge

Lego City Driving School

On this you had to drive around in fiat mini cars with pedals, the right pedal makes you go faster and the left slower, there were speed cameras, traffic lights and a garage.

Vikings’ River Splash

This was the water rapids ride, we got soaked!

The Dragon

This was my personal favourite, it’s a rollercoaster that goes through some rooms in a castle with a dragon and a wizard and lots of other stuff, then it exits the building and goes sideways and through the trees.

These were some of the other rides.

space tower

sky rider

Lego movie 4D theatre

Atlantis submarine voyage

Submarines

Me swimming with the fish

I would love to go back!!

It’s one of the best theme parks I’ve ever been to!!

To find out some information click here.

My Trip to London

On Sunday 14th August when we arrived in London we travelled on the Underground to see the London Eye.

London eye

Then went to a food market to have some drinks then we went through Chinatown and Trafalgar Square and found a BFG dream jar from the BFG dream jar trial these are the ones we found:

I dream of the universe by Professer Stephen Hawking
A dreamy dancers dream by Karon Elson
A stitch in time saves nine by Jenny Packham
Healthy start, happier lives: RB:
City of dreams Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
For the love of animals: Simon Cowell
Believe in extraordinary by Team GB
For the love of the hedgehog by Zoella
Theatre of dreams by Tim Minchin
This a BFG dream jar

This another dream jar that we saw

Here is the BFG Dream jar map and checklist. Then we arrived at…M&M’s world stuffed full of M&M things like pillows, cups, key rings, magnets, tennis balls and personalised stuff and it even has a giant wall of chocolate where you can create your own M&M’S selection from over 100 choices.

M&M world

M&M men

After then we went to Hamleys and I bought a Find It London book and a LEG0 minifigure.

Hamleys

A Queen made of LEG0

After that we went to Buckingham palace and saw some of the royal guards and then we went to Downing street but could only see gates.

Then we went for tea at Bibimbap, which is a Korean restaurant for starters I had some fried chicken, kimchi, kimchi pancakes and dumplings.

Bibimbap

Dumplings

For my main course I had a rice bowl called Bibimbap.

Bibimbap rice bowl

It was really nice.

Then on the way to Piccadilly circus we saw the BT Tower. When we arrived at Piccadilly circus we saw the statue of Eros which is actually called Anteros.

Picadilly circus

The next day we went on the London Eye and when we were at the top there were lots of really good views and you could see for 25 miles. The London Eye is 350 metres high.

London eye views

Then we went to The Tower Bridge and went inside to the walkways and there was a glass floor to walk across and stand on and look down below to the river Thames.

The glass floor on the Tower Bridge

After that we went to Borough Market and bought some doughnuts, which are said to be the NICEST IN THE WORLD. They were the best I ever had.

Borough market Doughnut

Afterwards we went to Monument which is a memorial to the Great Fire of London and has 311 spiral steps which was really difficult to climb up. There were loads of great views from the viewing platform.

The Monument stairs

The information on The Monument

Then we went to see St. Pauls Cathedral with it’s enormous dome.

St. Pauls Cathedrals.

After that we went to Brewdog for dinner and had some pizzas. Afterwards we went to Kensington Gardens and Covent Garden.

I love LONDON!!!!!

This a souvenir I bought from the London eye gift shop.

London eye souvenir

The Hinds Head

The day before we went to LegoLand we went to The Hinds Head in Bray, which is one of Heston Bluementhal’s restaurants.

Hinds Head

I ordered an Apple juice to drink, whilst we looked at the menu.

For starters I had a Scotch Egg, when I cut inside, the yolk was really nice and runny.

Scotch Egg

For my main course I had a cottage pie which was really delicious.

Cottage pie

We also got some sides to share which were a heritage tomato salad, smoked green beans and buttered carrots.

sides

For dessert I had an elderflower sorbet and some cheesecake and we shared a cheeseboard.

cheesecake

cheeseboard

When we got the bill they brought us dark chocolate orange and caraway seed truffle.

When we were waiting to leave we were talking to the man behind the bar, who gave us some of Heston’s special chocolates which looked like stones- I thought he was tricking us and making us eat stones but they were really nice chocolates!

chocolate stones

I really enjoyed going to The Hinds Head and would love to go again.

It’s the best restaurant I’ve ever been to!

Book Review – “Mum…” by Morty Sey and Scott Chegg

This is a good book because it’s funny. It rhymes for effect and has brilliant pictures.

This is the front cover

The alarm doesn’t go off, so Mum is late, loads of disasters happen like: “Why aren’t you dressed yet?”, “She hasn’t got time to do her make-up!”, “She’s got nothing to wear and she can’t do a thing with her hair!” When they’re nearly ready to go, she has to change a nappy! Half way down the road she realises she had no phone and no purse, she can’t find a parking space! It’s no longer a school run but a race!!!

The book follows Mum as she tries to get ready for the school run, with a surprise twist at the end.

This is my favourite picture in the book – My Mum NEVER looks like this 😉 :

This is my favourite picture in the book

Even though i’m a bit too old for this book now I still enjoyed it and I would recommend this book for EYFS and year 1 and 2.

I would rate this book 4 out of 5.

My Magnificent Easter 2016

On Thursday I decorated some eggs by colouring them in to make them Easter Eggs.

The Easter Eggs I made

Good Friday

Parkers Arms

On Good Friday we went out to the Parkers Arms for dinner it was delicious! 🙂 ☺

When we got there we got some special treats, which were:

Smoked cod roe with sourdough
Potato skins
Fish croquettes
Lancashire cheese croquettes

After that we ordered drinks and I had apple juice, for my starter I had fish goujons with wild garlic sauce and salad.

Afterwards we had our main course, I had a fish potpie, which included cod, haddock, shrimp, scallop and wild garlic (which we went out looking for after dinner), with seaweed, peas and mash.

My Pot Pie

Then we had dessert which was chocolate egg custard pot with biscuit soldiers.

Chocolate egg custard pot with biscuit soldiers

Afterwards we were given a chocolate easter egg each and some salted caramel chocolate and orange filled chocolate.

When we finished we went for a walk near the river and collected lots of wild garlic and I tried to climb up some trees. It was very difficult!

Me climbing a tree

Easter Sunday

For breakfast on Sunday we had Hot Cross Buns.

After dinner we had Cadbury’s Egg’n’spoon and Smarties Mini Eggs.

Cadbury’s egg’n’spoon

After dinner we gave each other our gifts and I got :

A milk chocolate Star Wars Easter Egg and a Star Wars Gift Tin
A milk chocolate Star Wars Easter Egg and a Star Wars Bubbly Bar
A Cadbury’s milk chocolate Easter Egg and a Creme Egg
A Cadbury’s milk chocolate Decorate your own Easter Egg
3 Books, Awful Auntie, Tom Gates Is Absolutely Fantastic (at some things) and The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Bubble Wand
A Minecraft Jumper
A LEG0 T-Shirt
This a picture of all my Books& Eggs

These are my new clothes

Then we watched 2 episodes of Easter Simpsons and Ice Age The Great Egg Scapade.

For tea we had roast lamb with roast potatoes, carrots, asparagus, green beans and mint sauce. After tea we had a slice of homemade strawberry and Mini Egg cheesecake. Mmmm! 🙂

This is our homemade strawberry and mini egg cheesecake

Easter Monday

On Monday we had a hot cross bun with Nutella and had some of my Cadbury’s milk chocolate Easter egg and a Creme Egg.

After breakfast I got a card from my Grandad with a £10 note inside.

After dinner we went to Grandma’s house for tea and she had hidden eight chocolate Easter Bunny’s for me and Georgia to find I found 5 and Georgia found 3 plus the special ones which were Maltesers Teasers Easter Bunny’s.

Then Grandma gave us our presents and I got a Chameleon T-Shirt and 10 Marzipan bunnies.

After that we had tea which was Shepherd’s Pie and veg and for dessert we had a creme brûlée.