Sunday 20 March 2011

Playing in the garden.

Today we've just been playing in the garden. We made a tyre swing and a tepe. I also sewed some cabbage seeds, radish seeds and broccoli seeds, and I planted some garlic.
Me, Jemima and Mummy have just been moving daffodils away from the path so they don't get trampled on. It took quite a long time!


Saturday 19 March 2011

Industrial Revolutional forum.

Hi!
Yesterday we went to a Industrial Revolution forum. It was at someones house.  We had to do a  speech about an invention that was invented during the Industrial Revolution. Me and Jemima talked about the hoover. We also did activities like make a victorian town out of play-dough. We also made a water wheel and a poster about child labour.

The Industrial Revolution started in the 1720s. It was a time when lots of machines were invented. Instead of  people doing things by hand, machines did it for them. Life would be very different without the Industrial Revolution.

Friday 11 March 2011

Clifton Park mueseum

Hello,
yesterday we went to clifton park mueseum.We did some victorian washing. First we had to grate the carbolic soap into the tub. Then we had to use a pauncher. (I think it is called that!)
Then we had to use the dolly.
After that we scrubbed the tea towel on the washing board. Then we had to dry it by winding it through the mangle.
Washing took a lot longer than it does now!

Next we did the victorian cooking!
We made wholemeal and apple cookies on the victorian range. It's called a range because it  can do a range of things like boil a kettle, bake biscuits and fry things.
The Range
Stirring the butter!
Getting the cookies out!
After wards we played in the playground


Sunday 6 March 2011

New chickens

Hello.
We got our new chickens yesterday. They are called Posh, Petal and Indiana. We now have nine hens. We might have to get rid of one of the black chickens because it is lame and one of the other chickens is picking on her. Right now all of the chickens are in the poly tunnel so they can get used to each other. Some of the brown hens got into the black hens pen and started bullying them. Because the earth in the poly tunnel is really dry the hens really love having dust baths in there. When the new hens went in the poly tunnel at first they were having dust baths for ages and dust was flying everywhere. I will put some pictures of the new hens soon.
Imogen

Thursday 3 March 2011

Chicken news

Two of our chickens have died. There were ill so daddy had to kill them. Their eyes looked dull and they weren't interested in anything but drinking. We have got two new ones today. They have black feathers. They are quite young so they don't have very big combs. The builder who is building our conservatory gave them to us because he couldn't sell them.. We are also getting three more chickens.
Bye for now
Imogen.

Norfolk

Hi
Last week we went on holiday to norfolk. My granny lives there and we stayed at her holiday house. My cousins were also staying there. Here are some pictures.
 There was a really big sand pile on the beach which some diggers had made. They were moving it back to heacham beach because it had been washed away. It was really fun for jumping off.


Me and Reuben jumping!