Saturday July 30th 2011

Hello all! (Which is about 0),

We made popcorn the other day, and I accidentally forgot to put a lid on the pan so there was popcorn EVERYWHERE. It was toffee flavoured, because salted and butter are awful. Sadly, the recipe wasn't that good so it came it too sticky. It was a really good cookery book as well!

I'm going on holiday next week, so I might be able to post once or twice but it depends on how busy I am. We'll be on the beach non stop!

This is a short post because I'm about to eat chocolate.

Goodbye!

~Smallpengi12

Tuesday 26th July 2011

Today has been fun, but a little boring. I made lemon meringue pie (for the first time), and it was a great success. I really enjoyed making it, and it was quite an easy recipe. When you buy it in shops, the lemony bit has a lot of dye so it's bright yellow, but when you make it yourself it has a much more natural colour. (And flavour)

I have just been sitting here for 15 minutes, wondering what to write. Hmmm. It's quite late and I'm very tired, after being woken up by a mixture of parrots, a little sister and hunger. (I hadn't had much to eat the night before- the tuna tasted old. It had been in the cupboard for a few weeks.)

Will anyone actually read this???

Maybe I'll post tomorrow after our trip to the zoo.

~Smallpengi12

Friday, July 22nd 2011

Today has been great! Yesterday, as a leaving present a friend gave me an amazing food thermometer. I've been desperate for one for ages. At 8:00 this morning I made lemon flavoured barley sugars, and I've also made plum jam from the plums at the back of our garden. My sister (who eats nothing), loves the jam, and so does everyone else. I don't think it was because of me, I think it was just that we had nice plums.

I played football in the garden with my brother (shock, horror! I had some exercise!) and I spent hours making all the jam and everything.

The weather has been better than today than the last few days. We've had non stop rain, but I can't complain because it's much better than a heatwave or a drought.

I like writing in lots of different paragraphs, because I find that when everything's in one long paragraph, I just got bored and don't want to read it all. Also, my eyesight is so bad, that when I read my post, I can't see it properly when it's all squashed together.

I said I'd post more!

~Smallpengi12

Wednesday 20th July 2011

OMG! Tomorrow is my last day at primary school! After the summer holidays, I'm moving up to secondary school. I will cherish my freedom at my new school! (And probably destroy it...)

Today, we made jewellery at this awesome shop! I made a green necklace and a yellow and pink bracelet. It was our year 6 living treat. Tomorrow we have our leaver's assembly, and I will wear the primary school uniform for the last time ever! :(

Oh well.

I had to hand in my flute and trombone today. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mum went out and bought all the teachers some presents, so that's sorted. Luckily I won't be stuck in the kitchen until 11:00pm baking then.

I've got 7 scarves to finger knit (or toe knit, it depends really).

Mum was doing sausages for dinner, and I switched the bottom oven on. She then put the sausages in the top oven. She came back 20 minutes later to check on the sausages, and discovered she'd put them in the wrong oven. Lucky I wasn't having sausages! I had my dinner early because I was sooo hungry from our treat! (Even though we had loads of biscuits.)

My nose infection is still not budging. It's so painful!

~Smallpengi12

P.S Sorry for not posting!

Tuesday 12th July

Today has been the pits. I got my school report yesterday and apparently I am unable to work in teams, and I'm rubbish at P.E. The team work bit is unfair, but I'm not bothered about PE because I hate sports anyway.

I have an infection in my nose, so I can't touch it, sneeze, yawn, move my face in anyway, etc. It's very painful and everyone's saying I should take some Paracetamol, but I don't like taking medicine in any form. Also, I don't think it will actually work. While I write this, I am thinking,

Will anyone actually read this post?

Lets hope they will. Talking to myself is boring, and trust me, I've had to do a lot of it.

I don't like the way that we only ever work in teams at school. The government think that kids should be able to work well in teams, but what about on their own? What happens if they suddenly have to do some really important project on their own? Then they might not know what to do. Also, I hate the fact that we're always put with people we don't get along with. That's annoying.

I have been knitting non stop for a few days, and it's still going strong. I've knitted things for my little teddies!

~Smallpengi12

Sunday 10th July 2011

Today has been...boring.

I am bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored and.....bored.

On Friday we had some big assembly about nits. If I ever get nits, I'll train them to be the amazing, travelling nit circus. One of my latest money making schemes. My last few schemes have been renting out my bedroom to other members of the family, a bakery, knitting shop and restaurant. I hope my nit circus will do well.

Anyway, here's a video I felt like making:

Oh no, that was a dream. Sorry!

I made meringues today! But...the oven got neglected. It took revenge and burnt my meringues! Actually, I just forgot about them because I was too busy complaining about being bored AND having a sore hand from all the meringue making. I was pretty sure it had to be amputated, but luckily I was assured that it hadn't quite reached that stage.

Just a few words of randomness before I sign off:

People called Shirley surf on bananas.
Bananas surf on people called Shirley.

~Smallpengi12

P.S: 120 out of 150 marks in my piano exam. I got a merit!!!!!

Thursday 7th July 2011

Hello!

We had sports day today, and it was boring. I think it's because I'm in the last year of Primary school, and we do the same thing every year, so it does get quite boring after 7 years. We had a big race at the end, 1 year at a time. I came last out of the meagre 5 in my year, and I really embarrassed myself. Everyone else had gone right ahead and I was far behind them. The shame! I'm sooooooooooo s..........l...............o.................w.

I'm glad sports day is over and done with.

I now have exactly 2 weeks until I break up and leave primary school for ever! *sobs* *moans*
I am looking forward to big school though.

Here's a little poem I created about my hatred of little brothers:

Oh. I've forgotten it.

~Smallpengi12

Saturday July 2nd 2011

I haven't posted in a while. I've been very busy!

Here are some updates:

1. I got a book signed by an author called Bryony Allen. She had written a book called OTOLI, and she was signing copies. You find out what OTOLI means in the book. It means 'On The Outside Looking In'. It is a fantastic book, it was written for teenagers but it's alright for children a few years younger.

2. I went on a school trip for 2 days and 1 night. It was great fun but the food was awful. They somehow managed to fit 2 sessions of teams tasks, cycling, archery, crates, super swing, assault course and low ropes into 2 days!

All for now!

~Smallpengi12