tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86171444243847362024-03-04T23:27:42.436-08:00Adventures in Englandstarling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-89737071450129748942013-07-01T23:49:00.001-07:002013-07-01T23:51:23.621-07:00PuntingHere are some photos of us punting along the Cam.<br />
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<br />starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-62206042258637419602013-06-21T02:56:00.001-07:002013-06-21T02:56:29.165-07:00ArtThis is an artwork that I have drawn recently. It is a still life of a plate of fruit which was in front of me when I drew it.<br />
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<br />starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-12856241625366223452013-06-21T02:36:00.000-07:002013-06-21T02:36:24.003-07:00Post ImpressionismRecently we have been to Paris and seen many famous artworks, in the Louvre, the Musee D'Orsay and the Orangerie. I have seen many styles of paintings in these three art galleries and one of my favourites is post impressionism.<br />
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Post impressionism, is the name given to a group of artists in the late 19th and very early 20th century. The artists were inspired by impressionism, and some of their paintings are quite similar to this style, but they are not centred on nature, unlike the impressionists. A lot of post impressionist paintings have vibrant colours and a lot of emotion.<br />
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My favourite Post Impressionist artist is Vincent Van Gogh. His paintings had thick, clearly visible brush strokes and a lot of emotion. Some of his most famous paintings are "Sunflowers" and "Starry Night". I have seen a lot of paintings by him at the Musee D'Orsay and my favourite is "Starry Night over the Rhone" (not to be confused with his most famous artwork, Starry Night).<br />
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The artwork is a painting of the River Rhone at night, painted by Van Gogh in 1888. In the foreground there is the bank of the Rhone, with two lovers on it and two boats floating in the water. As you can see, it is not a realistic painting but undoubtedly a good one!starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-21514297736698360802013-06-18T00:33:00.001-07:002013-06-18T12:19:11.782-07:00ParisLast week we caught the channel train to Paris. The train went under the English Channel and across the French countryside before we arrived.<br />
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Paris was amazing and we did heaps of great things. Here are a few of my favourites:<br />
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<b>1. Place de la Concorde</b><br />
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The place de la Concorde is a square in Paris between the Arc de Triumph and the Tuileries Gardens. It was the square where the guillotine was set up during the French Revolution so it is the place where Marie Antoinette and her husband were beheaded. When we arrived at the Place de la Concorde, my sisters and I saw the Eiffel Tower for the first time. We also saw the Arc de Triomphe. In the centre of the Place de la Concorde was a huge Egyptian obelisk, set up in Victorian times to distract people from the square's grisly history.<br />
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<b>2. Montmartre</b><br />
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The hill of Montmartre is the highest point in Paris and was the home of many artists including Van Gogh. At Montmartre we visited the beautiful church of Sacre Coeur, positioned on top of Monmartre with a great view of the city. We also saw the 'je t'aime' wall (a wall covered with 'I love you' in all the languages of the world), a square with heaps of artists there painting portraits of tourists, and the Moulin Rouge (Red Mill). We had gelatos, too!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">me at the top of Montmartre</td></tr>
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<b>3. The Eiffel Tower</b><br />
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The Eiffel Tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel for the Paris World Fair. The tower was meant to be temporary but became permanent instead. For 41 years it was the world's tallest man made structure! When we visited the Eiffel Tower, I climbed to the second level with my family and took a lift to the top. The view was amazing. I even saw a hot air balloon!<br />
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Once a palace, the Louvre is a magnificent art gallery with over 30,000 artworks including the Mona Lisa. When we visited the Louvre we saw many famous artworks: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and heaps of other great things!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">looking at one of the works of art with dad and Bec and Elsie</td></tr>
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Paris was incredible.starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-87894570280809027242013-06-15T12:14:00.000-07:002013-06-18T12:20:53.602-07:00Imperial War Museum DuxfordOn the 5th of June, we visited the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. It was an amazing place and has an incredibly interesting history. Since before WWI it was a military base and continued to be one until the 70s when it became a museum.<br />
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Many of the rooms housing the exhibits are the original rooms from when it was a RAF base, huge plane garages and long runways between them. One of the exhibits was the operations room, where decisions were made about where to send out squadrons of planes and what planes should be sent.<br />
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The main exhibits were WWII planes and other things from the World Wars. Some of the latter were searchlights which would have scanned the skys of London during the blitz for planes flying overhead under cover of Darkness, and gun turrets (I think that was the name, please correct me if I am wrong) that were dome shaped and made of concrete. There was a slit in them and a man would sit inside and fire out of the slits with a gun. There was also a truck with a winch on it for inflating barrage balloons.<br />
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However the imperial war museum mainly housed planes, from modern planes to biplanes and WWII fighters, it had it all, even a piece of the Wright Brothers' flying machine, the first ever flying machine capable of powered flight. We went inside a Concorde plane, explored the science of how planes fly in some science experiments, and saw many WWII fighters and bombers. It even had a Harrier plane, the only plane able to take off and land vertically!<br />
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The Imperial War Museum was great!!!!<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-54220061580950352672013-06-13T12:15:00.000-07:002013-06-18T12:20:30.667-07:00NottinghamSeveral weeks ago we visited Nottingham, a town in the midlands of England which is associated with the legends of Robin Hood. One of our ancestors, Joseph Woodward, came from Nottingham and was involved in the Nottingham reform bill riots of 1831.<br />
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The first place we saw in Nottingham was Nottingham castle. The history of this castle dates back to the reign of William I. He ordered a wooden fort to be built on castle rock, a tall, natural rock formation. Nottingham castle was changed in many ways over the centuries until it became the elaborate Georgian palace it is today. However, the Georgian palace was almost entirely destroyed in 1831 when reform bill rioters burnt Nottingham Castle and turned it into a scorched, empty, shell. It remained a ruin until 1875 when it was repaired, and turned into one of the first museums outside London.<br />
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The highlight of Nottingham castle was for me, definitely the cave tour. It was a tour through the medieval man made caves that wind through castle rock and their history.<br />
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After Nottingham castle we visited the old Nottingham jail, now a museum, the gaol where Joseph Woodward, one of our ancestors was tried for burning a hovel down during the Nottingham riots.<br />
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In the gaol, we saw the court room where Joseph Woodward was tried, many of the cells including the pits, horrible cruel dark cells cut out of the rock that were so horrible they were outlawed by the Victorians, dark cells, cells that were almost pitch black, even when the door was open, "improved" cells an improvement to the pits but cold, dark and horrible, that like the pits, had no toilets so it all went on the floor, a medieval cell and an Oubliette, basically a pit dug into the ground where victims were just dropped in and left to die.<br />
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We also saw the gallows and the exercise yards as well as
the name of Valentine Marshall, etched into the brick of the mens exercise
yard. He was transported to Australia, like Joseph Woodward.<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-57511967564832289422013-05-28T12:06:00.001-07:002013-05-28T12:06:54.748-07:00Badger WatchOn the 28th of May, I stayed the night at the house my grandad and nanna are staying in in England. It is a small cottage with a backyard 4 acres in area and has a newt pond and an orchard. Green woodpeckers, foxes, rabbits, pheasants, partridges and muntjac deer have been seen in it by my Grandad.<br />
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Grandad and nanna picked me up from my house and took me to their house. After a snack we went pond dipping in the newt pond. Pond dipping is when you scoop up pond life in a butterfly net. We caught lots of the wild animals that inhabit the pond - water striders, an aquatic leech and lots of common newts. The male newts were very colourful with a long crest and the females were plain and brown.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me freeing a newt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me watching the newts</td></tr>
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Then we had to go inside and after having dinner, left for Tewin Orchard nature reserve. We were going to stay up late, in a badger hide!<br />
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We arrived at the hide at 7:45. There were lots of rabbits outside it and we caught a glimpse of a muntjac deer, trotting across the meadow into the undergrowth. About an hour later, we heard the scream of a barn owl and the hoot of a tawny owl. A muntjac deer came right up to the hide windows and started eating the nuts laid out to attract animals.</div>
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A little later, a fox's silhouette crossed the meadow and another silhouette crossed the meadow a minute later. The second silhouette was different to the first, it was much stockier. The silhouette shuffled towards the hide and suddenly, it was close enough for me to see its head colour. Its head was white, with black stripes. It was undoubtedly a badger!</div>
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After that it just got better. The badger came right up to the hide and after sniffing the air, settled down to a dinner of nuts. Soon another badger arrived, and a mangy fox which sat behind a log right near the hide. Then a third badger and a young fox arrived. The foxes ate a few things on the ground and I think one killed a rabbit. Anyway, the other fox came to the one with the rabbit and the two started fighting rearing up on their hind legs and narrowing the eyes, they snarled and showed their ferocious toothy jaws before one of them trotted off towards our hide. More and more badgers arrived, feasting on the nuts. It was an incredible experience!<br />
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Soon we had to leave the hide. After briefly getting very lost in the nature reserve, we reached the car. We got back at 12:30 and on the drive home I think I saw a bat!</div>
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-76136798414752872652013-05-27T01:20:00.004-07:002013-05-27T01:20:59.802-07:00Richard KingsnorthOn Thursday the 23rst of May, we drove around Kent, the home of some of my ancestors, the Pullens and Kingsnorths. We visited three villages, Chilham, Headcorn and Staplehurst. This blog post will focus on the latter of these villages where many of our Kingsnorth ancestors that came from. One of them was called Richard Kingsnorth.<br />
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Richard Kingsnorth, was born in Stuart times, we have no idea where or when. He became a Baptist in 1644 after watching a Anglican Vicar declare he was converting to being a Baptist. Richard Kingsnorth was persuaded by the Vicar and some time in the 1640's set up a secret baptist church in his house, as there were no other baptist churches in the area . At the time it was illegal to have a baptist church meeting in your house. If a church was discovered there, you would be fined and sent to jail. We know that he was never caught.<br />
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When we visited Staplehurst we saw Richard Kingsnorth's church where he was married and the font where he was christened.<br />
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We walked along a muddy track betweent two fields that Richard Kingsnorth himself would have walked down all the time to get to the centre of Staplehurst.<br />
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At the end of the track was his house, where he had set up the church.<br />
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It was an excellent day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the track up to the house</td></tr>
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<br />starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-44038184563684580122013-05-27T01:12:00.004-07:002013-05-27T01:12:36.109-07:00Paxton PitsA couple of Saturdays ago we drove out to Paxton Pits nature reserve, a series of pools bordered by reeds and located near Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire. It is home to otters, water voles, shrews, kingfishers, cormorants, newts and nightingales. In fact, Paxton Pits is the best location in the UK to hear them!<br />
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Our trip to Paxton Pits started well. In a pond in the picnic area there were newts, backswimmers, water striders and great diving beetles. Great diving beetles are medium sized insects which eat fish and tadpoles. Backswimmers skim upside down just under the surface of the water and are a carnivorous insect. Like the diving beetle, water striders stand on the surface of the water and zoom about like a hovercraft. Newts are amphibians resembling lizards that spend half the year on land and half in the water.<br />
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I am not sure what the types of newts I saw were. Possibly they were great crested newts, smooth newts or palmate newts.<br />
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We started the walk which was called the Heron trail. It went in a circle around the pits. Along the walk we came to a hide where you could look out over the water and be hidden from the birds. We saw cormorants, great crested grebes (a type of water bird) and other types of birds.<br />
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We continued the walk and heard nightingales and cuckoos call. We saw some more birds - a nesting coot and two mute swans. Soon the walk was over. Paxton Pits Reserve was great!<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-75206602310258854412013-05-20T11:20:00.002-07:002013-05-20T11:20:46.789-07:00William WilberforceRecently we have studied William Wilberforce. He has earned his place in the history for playing a very important part in the abolition of the slave trade. The slave trade was an abominable trade of african men and women, who were cruelly taken from their homeland, packed extremely tightly in the hulls of ships and left there for the whole voyage. They were never allowed to leave the ship's hull to go the toilet or breathe in fresh air, and by the time the ship reached its destination, half the slaves were dead. <br />
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The slaves were then sold to wealthy sugar plantation owners, branded with a red hot iron and sent to work on the sugar plantations toiling in the hot sun to make sugar, cutting their hands badly all the time and being whipped by their merciless owners.</div>
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William Wilberforce was born in Hull, the son of a wealthy merchant. When he was a child his father died and he had to live with his aunt and uncle in London. While he was there he started to attend church services and talked to John Newton, a former slave ship owner who had realised how bad the slave trade was and campaigned against it. Wilberforce was considering becoming a Christian. When his mum heard he was going to church he was instantly taken back to Hull. Soon, he had gave up being a Christian.</div>
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Wilberforce studied at Cambridge University and while he was there he started a friendship with another student that would last until this student's death in 1806. The student's name was William Pitt.</div>
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When William Wilberforce graduated from Cambridge University, he became member of parliament for Hull. William Pitt became a member of parliament too and soon afterwards became Prime Minister. He also became a campaigner against the slave trade alongside Wilberforce.</div>
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William Wilberforce was helped by his good friend and former school master Isaac Milner to become a Christian in 1784. </div>
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In 1787, he was encouraged by Thomas Clarkson, a campainer against slavery, to embark on the greatest challenge of his life, the abolition of Slavery. To pass a law in parliament, it has to be agreed by a majority of MPs. However, almost all the people in Parliament where involved in the slave trade and they weren't going to give up their money (or their sugar) so easily. Wilberforce and other campaigners had a difficult job ahead of them. </div>
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After 18 years of putting bills into parliament, collecting facts about the slave trade and signing petitions, in 1807 slavery was finally abolished in all British dominions. By then Wilberforce was married to Barbara Ann Spooner, with whom he had six children. </div>
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Wilberforce was an incredible man who used his talents, being very persuasive and having a strong voice for an excellent cause. I hope he will always be remembered.<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-58284652490357803172013-05-14T12:34:00.002-07:002013-05-14T12:34:32.554-07:00Byron's Pool Recently my mum, Becca, Elsie and I visited Byron's Pool, a nature reserve in Grantchester, a small village outside Cambridge. It is called Byron's pool because the poet Lord Byron used to bathe there, naked. There, at the pool we wrote romantic poems, copying the style of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Here is mine, about Byron's Pool.<br />
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<b>Byron's Pool </b><br />
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I wander through a woodland green<br />
beneath the roof of tree branches,<br />
stretching across the sky.<br />
Blue bells cluster together<br />
Over the dry and empty litter<br />
of long dead leaves.<br />
I see a scene so beautiful:<br />
A river of beautiful sheen,<br />
Moving gently and sparkling<br />
As diamonds beyond price.<br />
The reeds and the trees sway towards<br />
Each other and dance wonderfully;<br />
Butterflies are fluttering by;<br />
The birds chuckle in the trees<br />
And play their instruments, an orchestra,<br />
Every musician clothed<br />
In the most wonderful colours.<br />
And all this beauty under<br />
An azure sky,<br />
Dotted with cotton fluff clouds<br />
And beside a patch of woodland green.<br />
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While we were there, we saw some very interesting things, butterflies I had never seen before, a moorhen and its chick and a kingfisher. Also I was bitten by a leech. Byron's Pool was great!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Becca and me writing our poems</td></tr>
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<br />starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-70434066365358678842013-05-09T11:42:00.000-07:002013-05-09T11:42:00.904-07:00This Lime-Tree Bower My PrisonToday we learned about Romantic poets.<br />
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Romantic poetry is a style of poetry written in Georgian times. A lot of romantic poetry is about nature. Three of the most famous romantic poets are Coleridge, Byron and Wordsworth. <br />
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I have heard a few poems by these poets and would like to share one of my favourite romantic poems. It is called 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and is by Coleridge:<br />
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<i>Well, they are gone, and here must I remain,<br />
This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost<br />
Beauties and feelings, such as would have been<br />
Most sweet to my remembrance even when age<br />
Had dimm'd mine eyes to blindness!<br />They, meanwhile,<br />
Friends, whom I never more may meet again,<br />
On springy heath, along the hill-top edge,<br />
Wander in gladness, and wind down, perchance,<br />
To that still roaring dell, of which I told;<br />
The roaring dell, o'erwooded, narrow, deep,<br />
And only speckled by the mid-day sun;<br />
Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock<br />
Flings arching like a bridge;--that branchless ash,<br />
Unsunn'd and damp, whose few poor yellow leaves<br />
Ne'er tremble in the gale, yet tremble still,<br />
Fann'd by the water-fall! and there my friends<br />
Behold the dark green file of long lank weeds,<br />
That all at once (a most fantastic sight!)<br />
Still nod and drip beneath the dripping edge<br />
Of the blue clay-stone.</i><br />
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<i>Now, my friends emerge<br />
Beneath the wide wide Heaven--and view again<br />
The many-steepled tract magnificent<br />
Of hilly fields and meadows, and the sea,<br />
With some fair bark, perhaps, whose sails light up<br />
The slip of smooth clear blue betwixt two Isles<br />
Of purple shadow! Yes! they wander on<br />
In gladness all; but thou, methinks, most glad,<br />
My gentle-hearted Charles! for thou hast pined<br />
And hunger'd after Nature, many a year,<br />
In the great City pent, winning thy way<br />
With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain<br />
And strange calamity! Ah! slowly sink<br />
Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun!<br />
Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb,<br />
Ye purple heath-flowers! richlier burn, ye clouds!<br />
Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves!<br />
And kindle, thou blue Ocean! So my friend<br />
Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood,<br />
Silent with swimming sense; yea, gazing round<br />
On the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem<br />
Less gross than bodily; and of such hues<br />
As veil the Almighty Spirit, when yet he makes<br />
Spirits perceive his presence.</i><br />
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<i>A delight<br />
Comes sudden on my heart, and I am glad<br />
As I myself were there! Nor in this bower,<br />
This little lime-tree bower, have I not mark'd<br />
Much that has sooth'd me. Pale beneath the blaze<br />
Hung the transparent foliage; and I watch'd<br />
Some broad and sunny leaf, and lov'd to see<br />
The shadow of the leaf and stem above<br />
Dappling its sunshine! And that walnut-tree<br />
Was richly ting'd, and a deep radiance lay<br />
Full on the ancient ivy, which usurps<br />
Those fronting elms, and now, with blackest mass<br />
Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hue<br />
Through the late twilight: and though now the bat<br />
Wheels silent by, and not a swallow twitters,<br />
Yet still the solitary humble-bee<br />
Sings in the bean-flower! Henceforth I shall know<br />
That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure;<br />
No plot so narrow, be but Nature there,<br />
No waste so vacant, but may well employ<br />
Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart<br />
Awake to Love and Beauty! and sometimes<br />
'Tis well to be bereft of promis'd good,<br />
That we may lift the soul, and contemplate<br />
With lively joy the joys we cannot share.<br />
My gentle-hearted Charles! when the last rook<br />
Beat its straight path along the dusky air<br />
Homewards, I blest it! deeming its black wing<br />
(Now a dim speck, now vanishing in light)<br />
Had cross'd the mighty Orb's dilated glory,<br />
While thou stood'st gazing; or, when all was still,<br />
Flew creeking o'er thy head, and had a charm<br />
For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom<br />
No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.</i><br />
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The poem is about Coleridge (the narrator) having to stay in his garden under a lime tree because his leg is injured while his friends go out on a walk. Coleridge at first is frustrated he has to stay but then has fun imagining what his friends are doing on the walk and what they are seeing (he has been on the walk before). Then he realises how beautiful the lime tree is and enjoys looking up at it! Here is a group some of the lines that I like:<br />
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<i>On springy heath, along the hill-top edge,<br />
Wander in gladness, and wind down, perchance,<br />
To that still roaring dell, of which I told;<br />
The roaring dell, o'erwooded, narrow, deep,<br />
And only speckled by the mid-day sun;<br />
Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock<br />
Flings arching like a bridge;--that branchless ash,<br />
Unsunn'd and damp, whose few poor yellow leaves<br />
Ne'er tremble in the gale, yet tremble still,<br />
Fann'd by the water-fall! and there my friends<br />
Behold the dark green file of long lank weeds,<br />
That all at once (a most fantastic sight!)<br />
Still nod and drip beneath the dripping edge<br />
Of the blue clay-stone.</i><br />
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I like the poetic feel and rhythm to the poem, how you can picture the scenes of the walk in your in your head, how he travels with his friends along the walk through his imagination and how he ends up delighting in the lime tree, which started out being described as his prison!<br />
starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-76522688835315791602013-05-09T11:34:00.004-07:002013-05-09T11:34:58.834-07:00NorfolkLast Saturday we drove out to Blakeney Point, a greyish area of tidal salt marsh by the sea filled with all kinds of birds. There was a black headed gull at the car park and many others elsewhere, a house marten next in the information centre, Brent Geese (usually winter migrants leaving in early Spring but Spring came late this year), oyster catchers (black and white birds of the seashore that eat molluscs, a Temmink's stint (I think), common terns, little terns, sandwich terns and artic terns, other types of gull and pied wagtails. In short it was full of fascinating birds I had never seen before!<br />
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But the main reason we had driven in the car for 2 1/2 hours was for the seals.<br />
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Blakeney Point houses a seal colony and is one of the best places in the world to see grey seals. But to see them you had to go on a boat trip to the point itself, a small peninsula of land, jutting out into the North Sea.<br />
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So, we got our tickets and while we waited for the tide to come in we had a very quick peek at a book sale then went on a walk along the marsh. Like I said it was a saltwater marsh and the vegetation there was quite grey, giving everything a primeval look, especially in the cloudy weather. You could imagine cave people stalking the geese in the marsh, armed with longspears.<br />
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Soon it was time to go on the boat. Lydia couldn't go out into the boat so dad had to look after her in land. As it turned out Lydia had a great time singing, watching sheeo, crabs and ducklings!<br />
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Anyway, when the boat left I was very excited! First we sawn the Tern colonies. Flying around them were heaps of terns and even more terns were flying out above the water, diving down under the water and flying out again with sand eels in their beaks.<br />
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Then we saw the seals. They were AMAZING!!! There were angry seals and common seals (or perhaps one or the other), peeking out of the water, swimming around and laying on the sand in huge quantities! There were juveniles and bulls and cows and all of them were amazing.<br />
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Next we left that incredible place and drove to Oxburgh Hall - and amazing moated house originating from Tudor times. On the way there Elsie saw her first deer and I saw two hares boxing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">picture of the seal colony</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">male seals fighting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Oxburgh Hall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad, Lydia and me at Oxburgh Hall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me coming out of the priest hole.</td></tr>
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-19438052486679310252013-05-02T12:11:00.003-07:002013-05-02T12:11:36.696-07:00Anglesey Abbey wildlife discovery areaOn the 2 May we revisited Anglesey Abbey, but this time we saw the wildlife discovery area. It was a walk through a large area of woodland in the abbey grounds, called Hoe fen (which was strange as a fen is like a marshy, boggy area with heaps of water reeds, nothing like the wildlife discovery area).<br />
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We climbed to the top of a viewing platform, 6.5 metres in the sky, built around a large tree. We could look down at birds hopping around below us! Then we walked along through the woods to a huge insect hotel. There were hollow sticks of bamboo and bricks with holes drilled into them, as well as many other things made to provide homes for wild insects. The shelters were positioned so people could easily see inside them to observe the insects. Then we visited the wildlife watch hut, a small bird hide beside a pond with lots of bird feeders near it. We saw lots of birds there! Apparently, wild grass snakes and roe deer bucks have been sighted in Hoe fen, but we didn't see any of those. We did however see a few song thrushes, lots of robins, a pair of jays, some great tits, some blue tits, some slaters in the beetle hotel, a dunnock, a chaffinch, a common moorhen and a common pheasant!<br />
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In the Anglesey abbey shop, we got some bird seed which we have put in our bird feeder. The Anglesey Abbey wildife discovery area was fantastic!!!!!!!!<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-73986472067197413062013-05-01T13:31:00.001-07:002013-05-01T13:31:08.531-07:00Last SaturdayOn Saturday we visited two museums: the Newton and Cowper museum and the John Bunyan museum.<br />
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The Newton and Cowper museum was in a small village called Olney (pronounced Oh-Nee). It was a small museum built inside the house of the great poet William Cowper (pronounced Coo-per). William Cowper was like I said, a very good poet who is quite famous today. He lived in the 18th century in a largish house with a very nice garden. The house is quite large but no where near as big as a mansion. William Cowper used to keep hares as pets, they used to live in one of the parlours. William Cowper was good friend with his minister, John Newton.<br />
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John Newton was originally a slave trader but became a
Christian and quit the job. He became one of the main people fighting
against slavery and lived to see it stop. He used to help Cowper when he
was depressed and talk to him about God. Together they wrote hymns like
Amazing Grace.<br />
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In the museum there were hundreds of
things belonging to the friends, some mentioned in Cowper's poem's and
some famous like Cowper's couch, from his most famous poem, 'The Task'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">outside the summer house where Newton and Cowper met</td></tr>
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Next we saw the John Bunyan museum. It was incredible! It was a small museum and it was free but it was full of things belonging to or made by John Bunyan! It had the pulpit he preached on (you could stand on it) a tin violin made by him, the door of his prison cell, a flute made by him out of a chair leg and parts of the room were made to look like parts of his house and his prison cell.<br />
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It was amazing!!! starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-81450390414108359192013-04-24T23:50:00.004-07:002013-04-24T23:56:08.379-07:00A visit to Kent<br />
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On Saturday we drove to Dover. It was a long car trip and as we drove I spotted two muntjac deer, two rabbits, a pheasant, a goshawk, lots of rooks and various farm animals.<br />
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Our first stop was Canterbury. We went there to visit its famous Cathedral. However, when we got there we discovered the main parts were closed! <br />
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So after a picture at the front gates, we left Canterbury and headed to Chilham, a small village close to Canterbury. The latest BBC production of <i>Emma </i>by Jane Austen had scenes filmed there in the village square. Also, it is thought that Thomas Beckett might have been buried there.</div>
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The main reason we were there was for family tree research as our ancestors, the Pullens, are buried there. We knew they were buried at St Mary's Church there, so when we got to the church (very easy in a small village), dad, Elsie and Lydia searched for records inside, while mum, Rebecca and I looked for the actual grave. Soon dad found where it was from the records and we went to it and took some photos. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next to the grave of my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather William Pullen</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></td></tr>
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Next we went to Dover Castle. You could see right across the English
channel to France. We parked on a hill where we could plainly see our
destination - Dover Castle!<br />
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Huge and powerful, Dover
Castle towered over the beach, watching for enemies that might cross the
channel to fight the English. Once we were inside its outer walls we
visited the Roman lighthouse and Anglo Saxon church. As it was St
George's day, flocks of English people had come for the festival. Still,
the actual Castle was quite empty and the banners and medieval tents
were a great backdrop for the French invasion game that Becca, Elsie and
I were playing.<br />
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Inside Dover Castle was fantastic. We
went inside the mighty stone keep, looked over the battlements, saw the
kitchen, guest room, dining room and armoury.<br />
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Next we
saw the WWII tunnels with corrugated iron walls and dull electric
lights. It used to be a hospital for people injured in the war. We took a
tour through there.<br />
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Then we drove home. As we drove out of Dover we saw the white cliffs beside us rearing over the channel. As we drove we saw a bird of prey (possibly a hen harrier) and a whole heap of rabbits and hares.<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-83000297701013838702013-04-22T09:30:00.001-07:002013-04-22T09:30:14.937-07:00Newtonia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Last week, my sisters and I learnt about Sir Isaac Newton. We watched a documentary about him and did some research on the computer. (We had also visited Trinity College a few weeks ago, where he was a fellow for many years, and saw an apple tree that had been planted outside his window, and was directly descended from the famous apple tree that was at his home in Lincolnshire. Earlier still, we visited the library at Trinity College and saw his staff, a lock of his hair, and a letter that he wrote to his nemesis, Robert Hooke.)</div>
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As part of learning about Isaac Newton, we designed a game about his life and discoveries, which we called, 'A Voyage Through Newtonia'. Here are some photos of it.</div>
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<i>Watership Down </i>is a great and engaging novel by Richard Adams. It was published in 1972 and is set in a similar period.<br />
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The setting is in England, near and on the downs (very large, grassy hills). You can tell Richard Adams doesn't like how meadows and other environments are being developed into built environment. The book also teaches about good leadership.<br />
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The story is about a group of rabbits living in a nice warren within a plot of land. Fiver, a timid, small, weak rabbit, suddenly has a horrible feeling that they have to leave the warren. His fear is backed up when a mysterious white sign appears near the warren. Obviously, rabbits cannot read, but it said: THIS IDEALLY SITUATED ESTATE COMPRISING SIX ACRES OF EXCELLENT BUILDING LAND IS TO BE DEVELOPED WITH HIGH CLASS MODERN RESIDENCES BY SUTCH AND MARTIN LIMITED OF NEWBURY BERKS.<br />
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Most of the rabbits are not concerned about the sign, but a few who believe Fiver is right assemble together one night and leave their home forever. They travel through strange lands with foxes, badgers, stoats and strange rabbits with unusual customs. They go through woods and fields and cross roads driven over by Hrududu (cars).<br />
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Eventually they reach Watership Down, where they establish a warren and meet the seagull Kehaar. they rescue some does from the heavily guarded, heavily disguised warren of General Woundwort, Efrafa, and battle for their lives against Woundwort's fury.<br />
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The main characters are Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry, Kehaar and Woundwort.<br />
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Hazel is definitely the main character, an averagely sized rabbit and a great leader. He is very brave and is admired by his friends. When they establish a warren, Hazel is the leader. In the old warren he had no high position.<br />
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Fiver is a small rabbit, the fifth in a litter. He has an ability to see things in the future and things going on far away. He is feeble and quite weak.<br />
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Bigwig is strong, brave, and a larger rabbit. He has a growth of fur on his head, earning him his name. He starts out proud but by the end he has become more humble. <br />
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Blackberry is another member of Hazel's warren. Clever and loyal to Hazel, he comes up with plans and ideas that make their rescue from Efrafa happen successfully.<br />
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Kehaar is a black-headed seagull rescued by Hazel when he was injured. The rescue was dangerous as Kehaar was in pain and feeling very angry. He used rather foul language at first when he had no idea what rabbits were and what they ate. He thought they were trying to capture him and eat him. Before long he was very loyal to Hazel and had a strong friendship with Bigwig.<br />
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Woundwort is a vicious rabbit. In fact, he is more like a hunting animal. He is a very large rabbit and would prefer to stand and fight any enemy, no matter how big, than retreat. He is the chief rabbit of Efrafa. He is a tyrant of a king, fierce and very vengeful.<br />
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The book shows a lot about leadership and tells us how leaders should act using Hazel as a role model. The book has been cleverly researched and the facts about rabbits are true. However it is obviously a fictional story! The rabbits have culture, religion and even their own stories which the reader will hear occasionally. <br />
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My favourite part is when Hazel's warren rescues some does from Efrafa and is chased by Woundwort and his Ousla (the Ousla are a group of strong or clever rabbits that guard warrens and steal food from farms. They are generally military figures within a warren.)<br />
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I like it because of its mix of science and fiction and how it is exciting. I think it is a great book.starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-64245248530608149342013-04-17T12:30:00.003-07:002013-04-17T12:33:29.732-07:00Upon Westminister BridgeI've been memorising William Wordsworth's poem 'Upon Westminster Bridge'. When we were in London last week, my dad and I got up early and caught the tube to Westminster Bridge to film me reciting it. Enjoy!
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Last week we spent five days in London with my Grandma and Grandpa. Here are some pictures I took of the things we saw there:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A grey heron at St James's park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nelson's column at Trafalgar square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lion at Trafalgar square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rosetta stone, a world famous stone that became the key to deciphering heiroglyphs and unlocking the secrets of ancient Egypt in the British museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A copy of Cyrus prism the British museum (the real one was on display in America)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A neolithic ceremonial helmet, made out of a deer's skull and antlers at the British museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to a Greek temple, rebuilt from fragments and moved to the British museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pteranodon at the Natural History museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lammergeier at the Natural History Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fossil of an ichthyosaur giving birth, at the Natural History Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fossil of an ichtyosaur, at the Natural History Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A stuffed (and faded) thylacine, at the Natural History Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The changing of the guard, at Buckingham Palace</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Aztec carving of a double-headed snake, at the British Museum </td></tr>
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On Good Friday, after church we went on a tour around Cambridge, specifically about Christain things that happened there. We saw a Norman Church, looked at the colleges and also saw an Anglo-Saxon tower. We were the only people on the tour. The pictures are of a garden that once belonged to Isaac Newton and a three dimensional map of that part of Cambridge. It was great!<br />
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The day after the day after that was Easter Sunday! After church we went to an Easter egg trail at Wimpole hall. There was an egg and spoon race first, in the gardens, then we had to look for things hanging from trees. Then we reached the farm. We stroked donkeys and saw nesting ducks and chickens. Also we played in a playground at the end of the trail. We got large easter eggs at the end!<br />
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The next day we drove out in the car to Long Melford, a small town in Suffolk. We were originly just going to see Long Melford hall but we arrived before opening time and visited a medieval church as we waited. <br />
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Soon Melford Hall was open and we could go inside. It was a wonderful old house that belonged to Beatrix Potter, the author of <em>Little Peter Rabbit</em>'s cousins, there were some things inside that belonged to her, including the room she stayed in when visiting the house.<br />
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Then we visited the ruins of a vast abbey. When it was built it was the size of a small town! It was put up to honour Saint Edmund the martyr. He was an Anglo-Saxon christain king who ruled all of East Anglia. Vikings won a battle against him and said he could either become a pagan (the viking religion) or die. Edmund bravely refused to stop being a Christain and was tied to a tree. The viking soldiers then shot him with arrows and cut of his head. He was buried at Bury St Edmunds where the ruins are now. <br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-16224386962228268202013-03-27T14:31:00.000-07:002013-03-27T14:31:20.097-07:00Monster LabI had to design a counting game for kindergarten kids as part of my homework.<br />
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My game is called 'Monster Lab'. It is a game you need to play with other people.<br />
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Everyone gets a magnetic board with a circle drawn on it which represents the body of a monster. The group has a spinner and dice and a containers with the monster's horns, eyes, arms, legs, head and tail.<br />
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If you spin a part of the body you have already you miss a turn and the next person rolls and spins.<br />
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At the end, you can name your monster if you want to!<br />
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starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-4000790368286924372013-03-26T12:26:00.003-07:002013-03-26T12:26:26.352-07:00Archaeology DigLast week we visited an archaeological dig. It was on this big patch of land that was soon to be developed into a housing estate.<br />
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First we walked into a marquee and she showed us how small ditches around the edges of Celtic houses fill up with silt over time and if you dig down to their level you can see where the ditches were by seeing the differently coloured soil.<br />
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Then we went to the dig sites. Firstly, there was a Celtic house and a Roman road. The gutters at each side of the road had filled up in the same way as the Celtic ditches. We could work out they were from different periods as the Roman road was built smack on top of the Celtic house.<br />
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Then we walked through the horrid mucky grounds dotted with last seasons potatoes to another dig where they'd found the site of a Victorian rubbish dump. There was lots and lots of Victorian rubbish piled on top of each other. We could see it under the ground through the archaeologists trench. One of the walls was practically made up of rubbish.<br />
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It was interesting and I learned a lot!<br />
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<br />starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-48024078730106144532013-03-26T12:16:00.002-07:002013-03-26T12:16:16.562-07:00Anglesey AbbeyToday we visited Anglesey Abbey - a 17th century manor with a Norman Crypt, 20th century parts and beautiful grounds with wildlife trails and even a working water mill! <br />
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First, after a stroll throug beautifu gardens we arrived at the watermill. Inside were many cogs and a small grindstone. Becca and Elsie and I earned a classy plastic gold medal for turning it round the amount of years we are old. We saw how the waterwheel turned a stone cog which turned abother cog at right angles to it. Using the strong current the water did a lot of the hardest work! That's really clever!<br />
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Next we visited the actual house. Inside were any expensive clocks. Some were pretty like the tower clock with three faces (only one had hands and numbers all the rest had sparkling patterns) and some clocks would have cost a ridiculous amount of money like a gold and silver one wth things carved all over it. <br />
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There were modern sections as well such as a marble bathroom. There were also many nude statues. The Normal crypt had distinctive Norman arches and a modern dining table in the middle of the room. At the time I didn't know it was the crypt but I noticed the distinctive arches.<br />
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Outside the house, walking back towards the car we saw a beautiful species of pheasant. It had a long trailing tail almost scaly looking black and yellow feathers and was quite a large size for a bird.<br />
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I really enjoyed my day and mum says we're going back there some time!starling kidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02494634950794919578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8617144424384736.post-63472982437779717132013-03-20T12:00:00.003-07:002013-03-20T12:00:47.116-07:00BathThis week our family drove to Bath. On our way there we saw lots of exciting things.<br />
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First, we saw deer. I don't know what type of deer as we only saw a glimpse of them through the window. We saw lots of raptors (birds of prey) one of which might have been a buzzard and another perhaps a marsh harrier!<br />
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When we got to Salisbury we visited its beautiful cathedral with the largest spire in the UK! The pillars are under such pressure they are actually slightly bent! It had tombs, a magnificent font and the original Magna Carta. The best preserved copy on earth!<br />
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Then we drove to Old Sarum, an old Normal castle built in William the Conquerer's time where an old Iron Age fort used to be! It is a ruin now with the ugly insides of walls everywhere and stairs leading to nowhere. From the hill, you can see for miles. It was great!<br />
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Next stop was Stonehenge! It was great! It was way bigger than I thought and really awe inspiring. There was an audio guide that told you about Stonehenge as well - what it is made of, how it was built, why people think it was built and myths about it. One myth is that it was made by Merlin and Uther Pendragon (King Arthur's father) was buried there! Not true, but still interesting!<br />
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Then we visited Wilsford a tiny town which some of my ancestors come from. Also, we saw a white horse a bit like the Uffington horse on a hill near the road!<br />
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Soon we got to Bath. The next morning we saw the Roman baths. They were AWESOME!!!! They had a museum with Roman stonework, pots and an undergroung place with the bases of pillars, altars and statue stands where a Roman temple courtyard had been. There was also a Roman goddess of wisdom, among other things - Sulis, Minerva. Then we saw the actual baths - hot ones, cold ones, warm ones and ones devoted entirely to healing. The original roof of Bath was massive, very high and beautifully decorated.<br />
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Then we saw the pump room. It is in one of Jane Austen's novels, <i>Northanger Abbey</i>. I had a delicious hot chocolate and a Bath bun.<br />
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Then we met a man with tame pigeons on the street. He let us feed them while they sat on our arms and even Becca's head!<br />
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Next we saw the Fashion museum and Assembly rooms. The Assembly room is also in Northanger Abbey and balls were held there. The Fashion museum had dressed from the 1600s to present. One of the dresses belonged to Queen Victoria! It was very interesting.<br />
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As we walked around Bath we saw a horse and cart at The Circus (a circular road with curved buildings around it). Then we saw the Jane Austen centre. We listened to a talk about Jane Austen's family and a learned a lot about her.<br />
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Finally we visited Bath Abbey and got a free 'God Loves Me' ruler. The Abbey was very beautiful.<br />
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<br />The next day we started our return journey to Cambridge. We saw more birds of prey including a couple of red kites. Then we saw some of the Cotswolds. The town we visited was very pretty with blackheaded gulls (some moulting) and a little river.<br />
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Next stop was Oxford. We saw C.S.Lewis's home, visited his grave, saw his church and sat on his pew.<br />
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Next we saw Tolkien's house and had lemonade at the Eagle and Child where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien used to meet. Their actual seat has a plaque above it and I deliberately touched the seat on the way out. Then we saw the martyrs' monument.<br />
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