CHRISTMAS !

2 days ago it was christmas day and we got lots of presents. My favorite present was a model of big ben clock tower. The christmas feast was sooooooooooooooooooooo yummy. It was so fun. Now we are in derby.

Canal Cruisers

On Friday last week we went to a place that hires out 'Narrow Boats' and we hired a 70 footer. We drove it down the canal to a 'Lock' and spent the night moored on the side of the canal. It was freezing that night because the heating only works when the engine has been running for a long time. The next day we went through the lock and I suggest you watch the videos of the lock to find out how it works. We continued down the river to a place called Bath which has some famous Roman baths that we didn't see. On Sunday we came back along the canal, went through the lock in the other direction, then motored past the mariner where we had hired the narrow boat and continued for about 2 miles along the canal. On our last day we went about 1 km along the canal to one of the turning spots where we turned around and headed back to the mariner to return the boat.
My job was to help Dad by controlling the speed lever when he asked me to go faster or slower. Sometimes I did the right speed and other times I put on too much gas and we went screaming along almost out of control.
On the way back to Sarah and Pete's place, we called in to see a very famous manor house and some ancient stones at a place called Avebury. The stones were set in their places for some type of worship by the ancient Britons in about 3500 BC. Then we went to a place called the 'Long Barrow' which was a burial place for the ancient people who lived in the area. It was carefully made with huge boulders and covered with earth. These places are the oldest remains of ancient civilizations in the world.

Indian restaurant

Yesterday night we went to a indian restaurant with my aunty Chris and my uncle Murray. It was great there. Chris is appahca's sister (appacha is my grandpa).

Dover and Canterbury

A few days ago we went to dover castle dover castle has been inhabited for thousands of years. It was built in the mevidal times. It was used in the second world war to fight the germans and their planes and submarines and ships and tanks and other weapons of war. We also went to canterbury cathedral

Natural History Museum

Dover and Canterbury

Londinium

Once upon a time there was a small boy called Oscar who visited London. His first peril was the London Eye and when he saw it he was concerned that it might topple over into the River Thames when he was in it. But facing his fears he stepped into the cocoon capsule and went up, up, up and saw all over London and realised it wasn't as scary as he first thought. Apparently, some people love the Eye so much, they have their birthday party on it.
Next he went on a river boat cruise down the Thames. One of the bridges the boat went under was made by ladies when the men were away in the 2nd World War. The stop they got off at was the Tower of London. Inside the Tower they saw loads and loads of crowns worn by the Kings and Queens of England over hundreds of years. Amongst them was a ridicously small crown that had belonged to Queen Victoria who was rather large. Oscar learned that the Tower used to host wild beasts such as a leopard that ate an umbrella because it was so cross at being caged. He also learned that there was a bear there that had died from being fed too much sweat stuff.
Oscar went several times to a museum called 'the Natural History Museum'. He was impressed with the quality of the exhibitions such as the 'mammals one' which had lots of stuffed animals such as a blue whale, dugong, elephant, rhino, hippo, giraffe etc etc.
Unfortunately Oscar's parents forced him to blog and blog which made him thoroughly angry!

30 and the 31st of november

On the 30th of november we went to the london science museum there were lots of exhibits and shows and tests. There i got a model of the tower bridge. The next day we went to the london eye
and the tower of london.We were going to go and visit the hms Belfast. The hms Belfast was made in the same shipyard as the titanic and nobody died on it in world war 2 and 1 only 2 days ago there were 200 kids on it and the scaffolding holding it to the dock broke and nobody was killed Did you know that when you are on the london eye you can see nearly 40 miles. Did you know that william the conquer made the tower of london.