Life with Olivia

We went out later than we were going to yesterday because mum spent longer in the bath! We went to the park to see some friends and I took my new MP3 player with me. I let my fiends R and B listen to it while I was playing with some other fiends.
I saw Charly my friend from drama at the park too and she came with me and mum to the museum.
There was another workshop making totems so we all did that. Even mum did! We haven’t finished them yet because we got there a bit late and we still have to stick some tissue paper on them. The reason we were a bit late was because we went to another part of the museum to look at something.

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Some peope don’t like snakes!
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I met a snake yesterday!
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I held a snake yesterday!
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Mum took a photo!
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It was so cool! Charly was too scared to hold it but she did touch it quickly before we left! She came back to our house and set me up with my own Bebo account then she had to go home.

Today’s word is dish. We’ve been to Spain a few times because my nanny and grandad live there and we got these tapas dishes there. I love the colours!

I uploaded my photos and then we lost internet connection. Mum asked what had I done! I didn’t do anything!

Today’s word is apple and I didn’t think we had any apples at all. But then I remembered we did. We had two! So I took this photo and then I ate it!

I also took this photo of the stoneage scene I keep writing about. It’s all finished now!

Mum took this one from a different angle.

Mum says that when all the schools have gone back we can go Kents Cavern for part of my stone age project because it will be quieter then.

I’m really sorry I didn’t comment on anyone’s yesterday! I got really busy in the garden chopping up sticks and branches. I want to make some dampers and cook them over a fire in the garden. I was in my vegetable garden aswell and I picked my first cucumber! The sweetcorn are all growing. There’s 8. I picked some carrots and onions too!

Today’s photo prompt word is can so I did this with Flickr Tools. Mum helped though!

It’s another one of mum’s frogs!

I’ve been painting a bit of my friends birthday present but the rest isn’t quite dry yet. I’m going to sew a little bag to put it all in to keep it safe.
I’m going to finish the stoneage scene today aswell.
Got to go. I want to send some emails to my friends!

Today’s word is lock. We’ve got lots of old locks in the house and I chose this one on an old cupboard in mum’s room. It came from my great great uncle Pip. Mum keeps all the photos in one side. But I don’t know what she keeps in the other side because it’s locked!

We made a birthday card for my friend yesterday. Actually mum did because it was a bit fiddly to cut out. I did help choose the butterflies and the colours though!
Here is a photo mum took of it. I love it and want to keep it!

Got to go. We’re going to Cockington today and this evening we’re watching Romeo and Juliet there.

I had lots of fun at the two workshops on Thursday. I think my favourite was the one at the cathedral where we made gargoyles and did some brass rubbing. Mum got me a photo permit so I could take some photos inside the cathedral too.

On Friday mum had to look after some of my friends. So we had a picnic on the hill where we go blackberry picking. Then we went paddling in the panny and went to a fun day near to us. I showed them how to play mancala when we got home. It’s one of the ancient games I played at the museum.

The fruit leather was ready on Thursday so I took a photo of mum peeling it off the tray. It was really sweet and I liked it better than fruit winders.

Mum laughed at my teeth after I’d been eating lots of blackberries and took this photo of me.

Yesterday we went to Brixham to do a treasure trail. We went on the Golden Hind and then we met some friends. They helped us a bit to finish the treasure trail. We went paddling in the sea and then we went up to an old fort to watch a little play about why they built the fort there.
I left the camera on the train and mum’s not very happy. So that’s why there’s no photos from yesterday. I’ll have to do the photo prompts again when mum gets a new camera. But mum’s phoned lost property and I hope we get the old camera back.
I made mum a cup of tea and breakfast this morning to say sorry. I’ve been helping lots to tidy up aswell.

I spent most of yesterday out in the garden but I can’t really remember what I did there!
I also spent a long time playing Walking With Cavemen games on the computer and I read lots of Secret Water too.
I had to keep stirring the blackberry sun jam. I got to lick the spoon every time aswell! It’s so yummy!

It took ages to get a photo of the jam dripping because I kept missing it!
Mum made a backberry pie that was absolutely delicious!

Today’s photo prompt is bloom. It’s a weed growing in a crack in the patio. Mum says it’s too pretty to pull up though so we’ve left it there!

One of the scavenger hunt items is spider so I took this photo aswell today.

LOL!!! It’s really a fake spider that I trick Adam with! He’s scared of them and he’s much bigger and older than me!

We went in town today and I got Kids National Geographic. It’s got a free space mission interactive CD rom with it so I’ll have a look at that later. I also got some more clay so I can add more bits to the stone age scene. It’s just started raining so I think we got back just in time!
Oh and I got my cash card for my new bank account in the post! It’s so cool!
Bye!

We started making more bits for the stone age scene until we ran out of clay!

Then we went blackberry picking again. We got loads more berries than last time so that’s really good!

Today’s photo prompt word is fat. I took a photo of the fattest and oldest book we have in the house! It’s our old family Bible. My nanny gave it to my mum to look after when they moved to Spain. There’s a old note pinned inside. I think it was written by my great great great grandfather but mum’s not sure how many ‘greats’ there should be! The date he wrote was January 25th 1880 so that makes it Victorian! He had really nice writing but it’s a bit hard to read!

Now we’re going to make fruit leather out of the blackberries. I think it’s something that stone age people would have done to keep berries for longer. We’re going to make some sun jam too, and dry some to make a powder for drinks later in the year. I think there might be enough to have some to drink now aswell!

Today’s photo prompt is smile which is really handy because it’s one of the scavenger hunt items to find aswell!

It’s part of a big picture that me and mum worked on together earlier this year. Lots of smiley sunflowers!
I couldn’t paint my cave yesterday because the clay was still a bit wet. But it’s dried now, so I can paint it today instead.
Mum found the Walking With Cavemen website for me so I looked at that and played some of the games on it too.
I played a lot on an architect game that was on a list of online activities that mum found. It’s really cool!
And I drew lots of pictures with chalks on the patio and shed door aswell yesterday.
I made a potato salad to go with dinner last night. I used up the last of the potatoes that I grew. I dug them up and I cooked them myself. I didn’t peel them, I just scrubbed them and they were delicious!!
Got to go! I want to do some more chalk pictures and paint my cave to make a little stone age scene!

The workshop yesterday was really good! I made a little cave out of clay. I want to do a project on the Stone Ages now. So when we got home we looked up lots of things on the internet and looked through lots of our books. There’s so many things I want to do. So mum said I can just do that over the summer and I don’t have to do boring workbooks at all! Yay!!!

We picked some elderberries the other day so I took them off the stalk and left them out in the sun to dry because we’re going to make a dye out of them!

Me and mum have joind a Scavenger Hunt Flickr group aswell. One of the things we have to find this month is a suit of armour. So when we were at the museum yesterday I took a photo of this picture of a Roman soldier in his armour!

Today’s photo prompt is “Foil”. So here’s a photo of the foil covering the rhubarb crumble that mum made last night. It was so big we couldn’t finish it all! It was really yummy! I can’t wait to finish it later today.

Got to go. I want to clean my trainers. They’re new and I got them for my birthday. I’ve got to put the elderberries outside again and I want to check out some more stuff on the stone ages!

The photo prompt today was the letter S, so I chose something Special! It’s my teddy called Ted. He’s very special to me because I’ve had him since I was born. My big brother Adam bought him for me when I was only about an hour old!

He doesn’t look like he has any eyes but that’s just because his fur covers them.

Yesterday I went to my friend’s birthday party. It was fantastically fun! There was a water slide in the garden which most of us had a go on. A paddling pool aswell. We played pass the parcel but we had to go on a treasure hunt finding clues around the house and garden first to find the parcel. We played bang the drum where we were blindfolded and had to find a upturned saucepan with a prize underneath. The prize was a growing pet. I got a snake but Bethany said I could change it to an alligator.
I was too busy having too much fun to remember to take any photos of my own. So here’s some mum took…

Bethany gave me my birthday card and present while we were playing pass the parcel. She got me The Roman Mysteries Omnibus. I can’t wait to start reading it!
We got the train home and I finally remembered to take a photo when we were in the High Street waiting for a bus home!

We didn’t get home until ten o’clock! I was really tired this morning so I had a lie in. When I got up I took this photo of the buddleia in the back garden. It’s as tall as our house and it attracts lots of butterflies so that’s why it’s sometimes called the butterfly bush.

Oh and this is the birthday card I helped mum make for Bethany.