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Happy New Year
Let me start off this post by saying Happy New Year to everyone!
This was meant to be posted yesterday, but I was a bit busy so it wasn't - doesn't really matter!
You may have noticed that my blog has has a small theme update, with the addition of a few pages as well. I hope you enjoy the update, and look forward to new posts in this new year. |
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Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 2nd January 2010
Lapland Holiday Diary
On the 23rd of December 2009, me and my family woke up at 1 o’clock in the morning. This was because we had a 6 o’clock flight to catch. The day before, there had been many delays at airports all around the country due to the snow, but luckily we left with just a 45 minute delay. After a three hour flight, we touched down in Lapland – north Finland.
It was fantastic, everywhere was covered in a thick blanket of snow! Since I was used to flying from huge airports like Heathrow, the airport at Ivalo was a bit of a shock to me. It was one small building, with the arrivals desk just meters away from the door, and the baggage collection just behind that.
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Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 29th December 2009, Event date: 23rd-27th December 2009
Merry Christmas
Let me start off this post by saying Merry Christmas to all!
Just to let you know, I plan on posting some articles after Christmas, to keep you up to date on my Christmas.
I will leave you with one final treat for 2009. Below you can find a Christmas animation I have made... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
To see the Christmas animation please go to the full article.
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Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 21st December 2009
Stratford-upon-Avon
Yesterday I went to Stratford-upon-Avon, a lovely little town that is always dressed up with lots of lovely lights at Christmas. We usually go there every year, to see the lights, do a bit of Christmas shopping and to walk around the lovely town - which just happens to be Shakespeare home town. Below I have put some photo's of the trip.
Images: Stratford-upon-Avon River and Family (194KB) Stratford-upon-Avon Swans and River (173KB) Stratford-upon-Avon Swans, River and Family (176KB) Stratford-upon-Avon Christmas Street (76KB) Stratford-upon-Avon Christmas Tree and Lights.jpg (117KB)
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Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 13th December 2009, Event date: 12th December 2009
Paintballing
Today has been fantastic! I have just got back from a paintballing party, and it was great! We went to a delta force paintballing centre, with loads of different areas to fight in. There was a capture the flag game, a storm the fortress game a kill the general game, and many more...
I thoroughly enjoyed the day. The first of the six games was a little chilly to start off with, but the adrenalin was soon pumping. The next three games were amazing!
Lunch was good: pizza, mmm...
Unfortunately due to the fact that it was starting to get cold and dark, in the last two games, our helmets steamed up. This meant it was almost impossible to see anything, and the game was pretty bad.
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Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 28th November 2009, Event date: 28th November 2009
Woodland Ways
As a birthday treat, we booked my dad a foraging trip, with a company called Woodland Ways. I went with him, and we had really great fun. First of we were briefed on the safety precautions and then we set off to a rather normal looking field. There the guide told us all about different types of plant and their uses - he even made some rope out of nettles (and I ate some nettle leaves!).
Then after the tour, we were all told to scout around the field, and gather some of the food he had showed us for the meal later. Me and dad had great fun, going around the field looking for blackberries and all sorts of weeds and even slows (a bit like a really small damson).
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Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 13th September 2009, Event date: 13th September 2009
Devon
Yesterday I got back from a holiday in Devon. Unlike earlier in the year wen I went to France, I am not planning on writing a holiday diary. I will however be posting some pictures in my websites picture gallery, soon...
Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 6th September 2009, Event date: 29th August - 5th September 2009
Rating
As of today, you can now rate my social blog articles - you could rate my technology blog articles yesterday.
Everyone gets one vote on each article, and the system is totally automatic, and uses asp based script. This means that as soon as you have rated and article, your rating will be shown in the mean rating*. You can only vote on articles that have been put into the archive, but all articles are in there as soon as they are launched anyway. I will not be voting on any of the articles, to make sure that the results are not rigged!
Each article has 5 white stars underneath it, mouse over the amount of stars you want to give the article (1 being worst, 5 being best) and then click, and that's it! Why not go to an article you have already read and rate it? Have fun rating my articles! You can rate this article at Archive/2009/Rating.
*(Mean rating) All the ratings are added together and divided by the total number of ratings e.g. ratings of 5, 3 and 2 would be: 5+3+2 divided by 3 = 3 and 1/3 so it would show 3 stars.
Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 16th August 2009
Aerial Extreme
I have just been to Aerial Extreme. It was really good fun, and I enjoyed it a lot. I went to a similar thing in France, but that was much scarier - was it because of the course, or because I was younger? I don't know. Anyway, here are the top photos of me and my sister at Aerial Extreme.
Images: Aerial Extreme Course (260KB) Aerial Extreme Genevieve Rope Bridge (256KB) Aerial Extreme Genevieve In Mid Air (154KB) Aerial Extreme Jump (159KB)
Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 13th August 2009, Event date: 13th August 2009
Babybel Candle
Today I made a candle out of Babybel wax. How cool (or sad) is that! Look at the image to see the candle.
Images: Babybel Candle (140KB)
Posted By: Christopher (Admin)
Date written: 11th August 2009, Event date: 11th August 2009 |
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