Hello my friends.

Today I learnt about the Roman's in my school work.
I learnt about Aqueducts, the Roman sewers, how Rome was founded, the countries the Roman Empire controlled and how the system of bosses and plebians worked.
I already knew a lot of this stuff but it's good to read it and answer questions about it to help you remember things.
Mum got the worksheets from SchoolHistory.co.uk

Also, last night I went to bowls, sadly we lost.
And when I came home I went to bed and I started reading Artemis Fowl and for those of you that don't know Artemis Fowl, then I'll tell you; he's sort of like 007 fighting fairies, but Artemis Fowl is Evil, sort of, and he's a school boy.
And he runs a big crime syndicate.
And the best thing is, it's more for boy's than it is for girls.
I hope they make it into a movie 'coz I think it would be better than Harry Potter.

Nothing much has happened today, I've just got off my backside ('coz I was playing with my Nintendo DS) 'coz it's too wet and windy to go outside to play or dig.

And I'll see ya on my blog and on everyone else's.
See ya.

The mad Scientist was working in his secret lab building on his greatest thing yet!
When he made contact with small aliens the size of a mouse, he promised them great things.
Little did they know he was going to turn them into monsters, yet the size of a rat.
They were a dying race, their planet turned to dust by their aging sun.
As he was in his lab he was taking all of their innards and putting them into their new bodies.

This is what they look like now:

The mad Scientist put them in a cage before going into his bed room to sleep.
But as he lay there sleeping, the aliens got out of their cage!
The Scientist suddenly woke up, feeling something walking on him.
He then closed his eyes, thinking it was his cat, then he realized he didn't have a cat, and even if it was, it wouldn't be the size of a rat.
And as he opened his eyes, there, standing on his chest were the aliens.
One stepped foreword and stabbed it's leg into his eye.
When he lay there dead, all the others swarmed over his body.
By morning there was nothing left, but a pile of bones.
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"Hey Steve, it's Max, why don't you let me in".
Instead of hearing one lot of feet coming to the door, Max heard at least 10,000.
The door opened up and what Max saw was terrifying.
There was a whole army jumping at him, as he yelled out for help, there was nothing left, but bones.
To be continued...

Hello all.

I'm going to tell you what happened at the JR Nats club last Friday.
We had a man called Sean Dooley come in and tell us about birds.
It was really good, and he brought in two of his books.
They were about bird watching.
One was called, THE BIG TWITCH, and the other book was called, ANORAKS TO ZITTING CISTICOLA.
And boy was he good.
Dad and I bought both books and got them signed for me!

There's something I've never told you and I think Brian might like it as well, I'm a Doctor Who fan.
At the moment I'm reading a Doctor Who book called Original Sin; I've only had it for a few days and I've almost finished it.
Oh, and by the way, David Tennant and Freema Agyeman, if your reading this, please go on to my blog, I'm your greatest fan.
I really would like you on my blog, oh, and John Barrowman, please come visit my blog!

And here's a update, I'm going to bowls tonight.
It's still carpet bowls inside 'coz it's still too cold and wet to play on the greens.
The week before last my team won and dad's team came second.
It's good fun and one of the members identified the tooth I found in my archaeology dig as a wombat tooth!
Mum says we have to take it into the Melbourne Museum to get it properly identified.

Hello all, sorry I haven't updated lately, mum's been giving me some good work sheets about the Middle Ages.

Now, "IF" you've seen the title of this blog post, then you'll see that it's called crazy Saturday.
The reason why is I'm going to tell you some pretty crazy things and they're all from the Middle Ages.
Oh, I almost forgot to say that I have a crazy thing of my own.
When ever I'm bored, I'm always thinking of calling the Optus help service and saying that I'm Hercules Poirot, and asking if I could get connected to Old Scotland yard.

Now, to the crazy things from the Middle Ages.

1. The lord of the manor brewed ale (a type of beer) about 3 times a year; he expected his workers to buy it at a high price. It was a sort of extra tax the workers had to pay. But sometimes the bachelors of the village were given a challenging treat. They could drink as much ale as they wanted, free ... so long as they stayed on their feet. If they sat down they had to pay.

2. Butchers were not allowed to sell meat by candlelight. This was so the customer could see what they were getting! A man was caught trying to sell pork from a dead pig he'd found in a ditch. He was fastened in the pillory and the rotten meat burned under his nose - a common punishment for this sort of fraud.

3. Large towns had takeaway food suppliers selling thrushes (at two for a penny) and tasty hot sheep feet. They would deliver cooked food to your home.

4. Many towns checked the quality of bread and punished bakers who tried to cheat. Some were found guilty of adding sand to loaves, in one disgusting case, a loaf contained cob webs.

5. Turkeys hadn't been discovered so they ate bustards. What happened? Bustards became extinct in England! Fancy a bit of red meat on a Friday? Then eat a beaver. Beavers used their tails for swimming, so they could be called fish ... couldn't they? (Er ... no, actually.) What happened? Beavers became extinct in Britain.
This information was from a great worksheet from SchoolHistory.co.uk

Hello all.

This blog post is going to be about what I've been doing lately.

For the last few days I've been watching some archaeology shows.
Most of which is the show I keep telling you about, "DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH".
Last night on "DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH"was how there were Mayan temples before they were first thought to be built.
The Maya that built these temples wasted a lot of things, like cutting down all of the trees so they could burn them for lime, to make plaster for their temples.
With so many trees gone soil erosion happened and the clay was washed in all over their fertile soil, which means they probably couldn't grow any crops, and this is what they think ended this early Mayan civilisation.

See ya when I make another blog post.

Hello all.

It's me again, and I think I have a bit of Picasso in me at the moment.

You know how kids as young as 5 are knowing about things that they would know if they were 11 or up, and how people are saying that they're growing up way too fast?
Now, I know all about this, I've seen kids at my old school as young as 5 and 6 always say rude things and being racist.

So, I've done a sketch of a young boy that has grown up in spite of being 4 years old, and here it is:

The faceless shapes are all of his old friends, and the hand up in the corner is God making him grow up.

Hello.

Last week I went to the Melbourne Museum and did some work sheets.
I just loved it.
Mum, Pa, and I loved it so much that we didn't get to look at everything, coz there's so much to see and do.
So we're going to go back this week and look at everything else.

Last night I got a Irish newspaper and a English newspaper and, wait for it, a NZ newspaper.

In the NZ newspaper there was an article about some rat bones from the 1200's!!!
And do you know what that means?
It means there were European settlers in NZ before Capitan Cook but after people thought Europeans had arrived in NZ.

In the English newspaper there was a story about an artist that found a Yeti skull with hair and fur still attached to it in a monastery in Tibet.
The artist wasn't allowed to take photos in the monastery so she sketched a picture of it and the local people told her stories about the Yeti taking them away and described it for her.

That's about it, really, I mean it, so I'll be seeing later.

Hello.

I'm going to write a story, and pretend that there is a volcanic explosion happening.

One day I was sitting in my room playing a Mario game on my DS.
As I was about to get on to the 5th level, the ground started shaking.
So I just went outside into the backyard to see what was going on out there.
When I went out there, there was a great big crack down the middle of the backyard.
When I went to get a closer look, I could hear a whimpering sound coming from the crack.
I then found out it was our Blue Heeler.
So I climbed down carefully and put her in my arms.
I then realized that I wouldn't be able to climb up with her in my arms.
So I climbed out without her in my arms and went into the house for a Back-Pack.
But when I got to the top the house was reduced to rubble.
And then I had a thought of leaving her down there, but how could I do that, she's my best friend.

So then I started looking through the rubble to find a Back-Pack.
Eventually I found one.
When I found it, I raced to the giant crack and climbed down as fast as I could.

When I got to the bottom, I put her in the Back-Pack.
I then climbed up the wall of the giant crack as fast as I could.

Again I went through the rubble, trying to find a rope or a leash for the dog, but then I found something that would explain where Mum and Dad had gone to.
I found their life-less bodies in the rubble.
I could then see in the distance a wave of pyroclastic gas and rocks coming towards me and the dog.
So I raced through the rubble as fast as I could and found a leash.
I was about to bury them when I turned around, and found that I wouldn't have enough time.

So I put the leash on the dog and got into the car, luckily I'm almost six foot tall, so I'd easily reach the pedals.

I then put the car in reverse and drove out of the drive-way with the dog in the back of the car.
Everyone had left Clayton except a few people.
I then came to a highway which was blocked.

After two hours I reached the city.
There was no one on the streets. everyone was either in a building or in their car, even then they were trying to get away.

I then put the car radio on and I found out why everyone were inside or in their cars, there was a warning on the radio that had been taped and it said this: "Warning: everybody get in to a tall building or in their car drive as fast as possibly from Victoria. There has been a volcanic explosion." and it was going on and on.

I then made it into NSW, where me and the dog parked the car and had a sleep in there.
And ever since then I have been living in NSW.

Hello.

I'm going to talk about another show I saw just now and it was about Pompeii.
For those of you who haven't heard of Pompeii, it was a Roman city that was covered in ash and pumas. ( pumas is a type of rock that can float )

The guy who was in it was talking about how and why the Romans were trapped when the volcano, Mount Vesuvius, went off with a bang.

The reason why all of the people where trapped was that the town that they were living in had been broken up by an Earthquake a few weeks before, and thus they were rebuilding their town.
When Vesuvius did blow it's top, instead of trying to get as far away as possible, they stayed where they were and saw the volcano as a form of entertainment, sort of like when you're at home watching the TV in the afternoon after school, or something like that.

The surprising thing is, they weren't killed by magma or anything like that, instead, they were killed by falling rocks, breathing in ash and the pyroclastic flow.
A pyroclastic flow is a mixture of hot gas and rock. You can read about it here.

Now, if you want to see some more on Pompeii, than click here.

Hello.

A few weeks ago I went to a talk about Art Deco.
It was very good.

The thing that surprised me about the Art Deco buildings was that the step-like structure you see in the facade of the buildings came from New York, and it was so that sky scrapers would let light down to the smaller buildings.

The Art Deco era was also the era of the flats.
Some flats were built in the gardens of Mansions and some Mansions were divided into flats.

Most of the time Art Deco buildings have a tower so that they could just peek up over the height law that the prime minister had created.
A lot of the buildings also had secret rooms so that they could hide money from the tax collector.
Some had racing stripes on the building 'coz it was the era of speed as well.

There's one town in New Zealand, Napier, that has Art Deco every where.
If you want to know more about it, then click here.