Life with Olivia

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!

On Sunday I finished most of the stone age scene. Yesterday we met some friends in town for a picnic. Then we all went to the museum for a world war two workshop. I’ve been before but Bethany hasn’t. We had loads of fun getting dressed up, but sitting in the dark shelter with the sound of an air raid going on was a bit scary.
They all came back to our house after and I showed Bethany some of my fvourite games on the internet.
But the best news ever is that mum got a new camera from Amazon this morning! It is so brilliant!! But it was quite expensive so mum always has to be with me now when I’m taking any photos.
We went in town this afternoon and I could do all of the photo prompts I’ve missed.

Double.
Some double doors in Cathedral Close.

Down.
We went upstairs in the Guildhall shopping centre and looked down.

Thread.
There’s quite a big hole in a seam on my kagoule and the thread’s are hanging loose!

Drive.
A green traffic light means everyone can go!

Pasta.
We didn’t see any pasta in the High Street! But I did see this sign on an Italian reastaurant’s window.

All caught up again!!

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.

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!

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!

I can’t remember exactly all the things I’ve been doing or the days that I did them on. But I’ll try to!
We’ve been cycling loads and loads. Somtimes my legs were really aching badly. And sometimes I couldn’t ride fast at all!
Mum said I’m good enough to ride on the road now. But I don’t ride on the big busy roads. They make me feel scared and unsafe.(Mum doesn’t ride on them either!)
I started to help Di make a bottle top tree for her garden. She let me make a little fire in her garden which was so cool! (But it nearly burnt the plants). We went to the allotment aswell.Mum and me saw Anderson and he said I can have my very own bit in the community garden. It is so exciting! I’m going to start planting things on Tuesday and Di is coming to help. I can’t wait!

We’ve been to group. I’ve had two practices for the WREN trust concert. I went to the scrapstore with J and his dad. Last week Lisa and the girls came in the afternoon so that was fun!
We’ve been to the library and the museum lots. I finished collecting all the trading cards. One of the men at the museum helped me. I think his name was Marcus or Mark. I’ve got some more cards to give him to say thank-you. I’ve been to drama twice, and played the museum card game with a friend there.

I did lots of things for St. Patricks day because I’m half Irish. I found my Irish flag and wore it around me!

On Mothers Day, I made mum breakfast in bed. It took ages because I put the wrong ring on for the baked beans! I made her a treasure box with some gold coins in. Adam got mum some flowers and we all played Uno Extreme.
I tidied my room which really surprised mum! We went to Lisa’s one afternoon and we played on the computer. We went to pottery on Thursday. J came for the first time and I was really pleased to see him. But T didn’t come.

I made another collage. I’ve done lots of reading and book reviews. I got a brilliant new book for English called Max and Lara’s Amazing Travelling Space Circus. I really like it and I’ve finished it now! It’s got a big poster that you can add stickers to. I’ve done some other English and maths. I’ve done some science aswell and yesterday I made a circuit and added a switch. I did some more on food for the Bible project. I’ve worked out all the bus times for all the trips we want to do in April.
I’ve done lots of cooking. I’ve made chestnut and mushroom pie, Irish stew, sosmix sausages, cheesy bacon puffs (vegan ones of course!), pea and basil soup, chocolate cake, parsnip cake,cinnamon biscuits, flapjacks and onion and herb scones.

We’ve watched four films, Great Expectations and all three of the Indiana Jones films. My favourite is The Last Crusade.
I want to start up my own club. I’ve done lots of forms for all the members to fill in. I’ve done some membership cards. I’m starting to write a newsletter but I haven’t quite finished it yet. In the newsletter so far I’ve written some of the rules which are no fighting or even play fighting and no pranks.
Last night we went to see some friends and got home about 10 o’clock. I was really tired when I woke up this morning. When I came downstairs mum had fixed the washing machine and there was water all over the floor. So I had to put on my boots to get my breakfast!

We had a quiet day at home yesterday but I added lots more to my Lego town.

I added a mine like I saw on Paint Your Wagon. I used gold card for the gold they were finding. I used the plaster from my crystal mining kit for prisoners to break up as rocks.

I made a police station from the Canon website.

It’s a really cool site and I use it a lot.

Today we went into town. We had lunch at Herbies and I had some soup with garlic bread. For pudding I had ginger and citrus tart. It was really scrumptious!!
We went to the museum after lunch. Last year I found something in the garden when J, M and me were digging in the garden. We all thought it must be a tooth. A lady from the museum called Claudia looked at it. She said it was a partly fossilised horse tooth from the end of the last ice age.

That is so cool!!! She said if I find anything else to take it in to show her. I did another museum quiz sheet. It was geology at work. I chose to do that one because that’s where they have some of the museum fossils. We went to look at the horse teeth in the local archeology area. The teeth in the museum came from Kent’s Cavern. But mine came from the back garden! I think I want to be an archeologist when I grow up. It would really interesting to find lots of old things. I’m going to carry on digging in my back garden. I want to build a firepit out there aswell!
My mum bought me a chinese parasol, a chinese decoration and some chinese lucky money pouches at the museum too.

I got some new trainers which are black and pink so that’s really cool! I like the laces.
I made a flicker book when we got home because we missed all of the animation things. That came from Canon too!
I’ve got two more teeth under my pillow waiting for the tooth fairy to come!! They’ve been there for ages now so I hope she comes tonight or very soon anyway!!!
I nearly forgot to say that I got the next Bugs magazine today. It’s a Rhinoceros Beetle this time. In the next issue I get the monster size display case. So far I’ve got all five issues. Mum said that I wasn’t allowed every single one of them, so I think I’ve been quite lucky really!

The last time I did my blog it was last Saturday! That’s over a week ago!!
But we have been quite busy and when I wanted to do my blog I had to go to bed.
So today mum promised that I could spend as long as I want to do my blog and put some photos in aswell!

Here goes!!!

Saturday 3 Februaury
Setsubun
This was only yesterday and we did lots of Japanese things. I made some paper dolls.

They were lots of fun to do. It was a bit lke doing origami. This is my favourite!

Setsubun is bean-scattering day so I threw some beans out of the front door and shouted “Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!” It was so embarrassing!

It means “Out with devils! In with good fortune!” Most of the books and websites we looked at the translation was a little bit different. Some said “Devils out! Luck in!” or sometimes it was ‘happiness’.
We watched Howl’s Moving Castle. It was brilliant! I absolutely loved it! I really liked the music aswell. I did a page in my scrapbook aswell.

Friday 2 February
Groundhog Day
Today was Groundhog day. We were going to watch the film but it didn’t come in time.
We looked at some videos on youtube and read about Punxsutawney Phil. He’s really old. He drinks a special drink every year that makes him live for another seven years but I’ve forgotten how old he is now! I made a pop up groundhog. Here’s a page from my scrapbook.

Thursday 1 February
Paignton Zoo
We went to the zoo today with our group called Free Range Learning. We had to get up early and catch the train to Paignton. I loved the zoo! There were loads of peacocks!

My favourite animal is the giraffe. I drew a picture of one on the train coming home. I did some worksheets about endangered animals. Here’s the page in my scrapbook about it.

It’s got tickets and pictures of most of the animals we saw. Mum got them off the internet because our photos weren’t very good.

Wednesday 31 January
Storytelling and drama
We went to storytelling at the library. It was mostly children I know so it was fun to see everyone. Two of the stories were quite freaky! A bit scary actually!
But we got to see some things from the museum. My favourite was the big fan. It came from Africa. We went to Hawkins Bazaar with Lisa and got some things. We got a magic garden, a zen garden and a window bird feeder. Then we had to go back to the library and Mum saw M and R’s coats that they had left behind. We were on our bikes so we couldn’t take them home and our bags were already full! We gave them to Claire instead and she phoned Lisa straight away for us. Then we went to drama. My friend Stephanie gave me a little Scooby Doo activity book. So that was kind of her.

Tuesday 30 January
We rode our bikes into town. I got some more geomags. I bought a video in the library. It’s a Famous Five one! I love Enid Blyton! Mum bought lots more in Lush!

Monday 29 January
Okehampton
We went to the group in Okehampton today. But we had an old timetable so we missed the first bus!
Barbara let me borrow her daughters bike. Lisa and the girls came too. We got some lovely food in Waitrose in Okehampton. Mum moaned that she spent too much money!

Sunday 28 January
Shakespeare
I made a big Elizabethan theatre. It’s got all the characters from A Midsummers Night Dream and the script too. I had to work out all the stage directions and where the characters have to enter. I really liked it. It was so much fun!
Mum made a little Globe theatre. I really want to go and see the real one in London. Maisy liked watching the play!

I made some other models from a website too. There is also some fairy furniture that I really want to make!
We watched Henry V. I didn’t like the battle scenes. They were gruesome! I had to hide under mums duvet!

And that was my week!!!
My back is really aching now because it has taken me hours to write all this!
I think I might go and play with some of my geomags now and put my bird feeder on my window.
See you later!!