Stolen Lives

This Friday me my Mum and Dad went to a presentation raising awareness about modern slavery called Stolen Lives, it was very thought provoking and I would recommend having a look at their site. Link here

Sleep over

Yesterday we were at a sleep over at one of our friends house because my Mum and Dad had gone for there 20th anniversary up in the lakes. I just want to say thank you to them for coping with us and inviting us into there family for a day. When we got there we mucked about for an hour and then went do to the allotment they go to  as they had an open day on, everybody their was really nice and they had excellent smoothies and I got to make a batman scarecrow!!!

The day after we went to Heaton park and spent an hour in a small wood there before going for an ice cream then we went to get some gerbil bowls for their new pets but we went into this one pet shop and they had some small and medium sized snakes that they were feeding mice as we came in and if you looked through the door to the back you could see one of the staff feeding these massive snakes.

There was also the food for the pets which consisted of all manner of grubs and creepy crawlies, after visiting the shot we went back to there house for tea which was drum roll please... PIZZA!!! it was extremely nice and after tea my Mum and Dad arrived back from there anniversary to pick us up.

TechniQuest 2015

This week me and my Mum, brother and little sister went to Techinquest in Wrexham for a chemistry workshop, where we did an experiment and also watched a presentation on different things to do with chemistry.

 The first part of our chemistry extravaganza was testing a towel and Hyrdrogels saturation ability by squirting pipettes full of water on them, for every pipettes emptied we added one mark to our tally until they were fully saturated (Something is saturated when dripping with a liquid). The towel got to around 25 pipettes full and the Hydrogel never really was soaked fully.

The second part was listening to a presentation by one of the chemists, which included making elephant toothpaste, watching an explosion and also how to see the difference between acid and water by using a Universal Liquid.

This was also the hottest July day on record at 36C so you can imagine how hot we felt on the one
hour journey in a 36 degree car! On the way back it was even worse as we were caught in rush hour traffic.

Martin the Warrior

This book is all about Martin the Warriors rise to defeating Badrang the tyrant who captured him at a young age and forced him into slavery as well as taking his fathers sword from him and using it as his own. Badrang used to be a pirate and had a partner in crime Capitan Clogg who comes to find his former friend, they are no longer friends because the last time they were together Badrang made of with all the slaves and the ship leaving Clogg on an island and so there is a three way battle to either take Badrangs fort that he had his slaves make or Clogg or Martin take it from him. Another main character of this book is Laterose also known as Rose to her friends. Im not going to say any more so hopefully you will enjoy this book.

We made it !!!

We have finished our live below the line challenge and as I sit here writing this I actually have a drink of fruit juice and am SNACKING!!! YEAH but seriously we did this to raise awareness for people out there in the world who do not have the luxury that we have of choosing what food we want to eat. Even though we were living on one pound a day we actually had the assurance of a meal; some people don't even know when their next meal will be. It is estimated that around 805 million or one in nine people go hungry everyday. I found that when it came down to it I really didn't miss any particular food and found this week not to be as hard as I had first thought. All in all I would recommend doing this to anybody as a challenge as you might find it quite hard not to snack!

Live below the line

Next week we will be doing the Live below the line challenge where you have to live off one pound per day for five days.To raise awareness for tear fund here is a link to the website.

Eclipse

Last Friday we went down to Heaton Park to see the eclipse, there was some safety precautions though. You weren't allowed to look at the sun directly as it could cause serious damage to your eyes,also wearing sun glasses actually made it worse as they trick you into thinking they are deflecting the light when they aren't. There are special glasses they gave us with a special filter but it was too dark and we couldn't see through them,luckily my dad brought his welding mask with a better filter here are some pictures.

Bottom photo was through a filter so might look weird!!!