Book update

After a few days of reading "Northern Lights", again, as I do, I got bored of it and now I haven't been reading for days. Also a few weeks ago, my sister, Charlotte, turned up with a signed book called "The Hippochronus", a book about a time machine. She met the author and got a signed copy for me... she also met the dog in the book! Also, amazingly, it's set in my home region of Tyne and Wear in the North East of England! But again, I got bored quickly, not that I'm trying to be rude or ungrateful, I just, well, get bored! I'll keep you posted!

Books!

Last year, I was in Scotland, looking in a Waterstone's (book shop) at the teen fiction section and I came across 'The Hunger Games'. I had heard of this, but never really took an interest. Anyway, I decided to buy it, thinking I would enjoy it. From the first page onward, I was gripped by the fast-paced, exciting story, I couldn't put the book down!
A little while later, I was out with my sister, and we were in Waterstone's, this time in England. I asked if I could get the next two Hunger Games books, so she bought them. I eventually finished the second one just after Christmas. But then, I couldn't really get into the 3rd, and I had another book to read, the first of three, that my brother Robin had got me for Christmas. This book is the first book in the series 'His Dark Materials' by Phillip Pullman, 'Northern Lights'. About a week ago, I decided to stick to this, instead of 'Mockingjay', the 3rd Hunger Games book. I found that I had made a good choice, as this book is amazing! I thoroughly recommend both series' of books, I'm sure any avid readers would enjoy them! I really hope you do read them, comment if you have already read them or are going to buy them!
I'll keep you posted!

Merry Christmas!

With Christmas fast approaching, I thought that I would post about it.
Hopefully this yuletide will be happy for all of us, especially because people strongly believe that the world will end in the next few days.
As a sane, normal person I do not believe this, but some people do! I mean, it can't end this year, because in my fridge, I have a yoghurt that doesn't expire til next year!
Anyway, what do you like about Christmas? I like the atmosphere, the feeling when you're surrounded by family, talking and laughing. Eating loads of food, listening to music, sending carol singers away from your door before you hit them, what a wonderful time!
Please leave comments, tell me what you want for Christmas, what you like about Christmas, and have a very Merry Christmas! Ebenezer, get lost, you don't have to read this.
One more thing... I'm sure you can guess, Bye!
 

Summer in Scotland

In my last blog post I mentioned about starting the book in Scotland. I then said that that was another story.
Well, now I will tell that other story.
My mum and my brother, Daniel, love to climb mountains, my brother, particularly in Scotland.
The majority of the Scottish highlands are called the "Munros". If you read my brother's blog then you will learn all about these mountains. I sometimes go with them both and we will take the day in our stride, quite literally.
Our days out venture from Snowdonia in Wales to the Lake district in northwest England to the Scottish highlands, undoubtedly in Scotland.
Anyway, back to the holiday trip in Scotland. We started at a campsite quite high up in Scotland. It was quite small complete with wide open grassy areas and a beautiful river through a small woodland. We made a few friends here while we were there, including a family, of which one member looked like Boris Johnson (mayor of London). They also had two dogs- a huge, fluffy German shepherd of which I forget the name, and a sheepdog called Abby.
We walked up a few mountains and visited a few small towns. On the third day (i think) there, we said goodbye to my brother as he went home on the train. We also said goodbye to the lovely little campsite, goodbye to Roy (Boris Johnson lookalike) and Abby the dog.
After we left, we set off for the caravan site( mentioned in my last post). At this caravan site, we stayed two days and it was quite small. At one point I ran into a tree and a branch went straight into my eye.
This was quite painful and there was blood everywhere. I won't go into too much detail for all the squeamish. A kind, elderly lady took me into her cabin and fixed me up with some cotton wool and water.
She walked me back to my caravan, with a patch over my eye.
Afterwards I was fine, and to this day, there remains a scar across my left eyelid.
So that's pretty much it, my Highland holiday, summed up in one block of text, I hope you enjoyed this slightly longer post. Now, there is only one more thing for me to say...
I'll keep you posted!

My latest book

I'm sure that you already know I do have aspirations to follow in the footsteps of some of the greats, J.K. Rowling, Anthony Horowitz, Roald Dahl, and my next work in progress is called "Footsteps in the snow", but enough about feet.
A short while ago, in August, I visited Scotland with my mum, sister and Brother, Daniel. We visit Scotland quite a lot, but that is not what this post is about. Near the end of our holiday there, we went to a caravan site. We got there, and the place was lovely, complete with a tiny river running along one side of it. I set to work on writing a new book.
This book was about a man called Michael, who leaves for a work conference in Cornwall (England).
It's the middle of a very harsh winter and the train tracks are icy, and very dangerous, the train crashes.
The whole book is about an amazing journey of an ordinary man, who's life is changed forever...

Hopefully one day my book will be published and will be a great success, until then, I'll keep you posted...

Long time no posts

Hello readers, I know, I haven't written any posts in quite a while and you're probably getting bored of reading the same posts all the time, so I thought I would write something. I do have an idea of what I will next post about, but obviously I'm not going to tell you what that certain thing is because that would ruin my next post. Also, if you have anything you would like me to post about, you can always leave a comment... and as always... I'll keep you posted!

Frankie the robin chick...

Today, my cat was playing with something on the grass, so I went outside to investigate and I realized it was a tiny baby bird that had fallen out of it's nest in a large tree in the garden. I scooped him up in my hand and took him inside where I placed him in a box with kitchen roll and leaves where he could feel at home. Me and my sister agreed upon the name 'Frankie' for this little bird. my brother, robin said it was either a robin, funnily enough, or some kind of thrush. I thought it was a blackbird, so I was pretty close. I went to Whitley Bay town centre and when I came back he had flown away! I'll keep you posted!

The Olympic Torch

Yesterday, I went to the links (the seafront) and waited on the side of the road for the torchbearer to slowly jog past. We stood by the long road and were passed by numerous police motorbikes and vehicles. I even got a high-five off one of the bikers! There was a giant coca-cola lorry giving out flags to wave as the torch came past. It was awesome and I ran after it once it had passed. I thought the whole experience was amazing! I'll keep you posted!

Redcurrant time!

Recently, Daniel has noticed something in our garden. If you read the titles of any of these posts, then you'll probably already know what I'm talking about. Yes, he noticed that on the redcurrant plant, there were some actual redcurrants growing near the base of the stem. I know! Redcurrants on a redcurrant plant! Pretty amazing! Hopefully soon we'll be eating them with ice-cream! Let's dwell on the fact that I'm using the word Hopefully.  I say this because not long ago I started to grow some carrots, and, well, they never actually grew. I'll keep you posted!

Extraordinary Autumn

If you wish to be a successful author, like I do, then you need to start your first book at an early enough age. If you push yourself to do all of the work that you are physically able, then you will have more chance of becoming successful. I am now currently writing two books. One is ' A gamer's guide to Minecraft' but you already know about that. The other one is about and alien invasion on a small section of fairly rural America. Now, this story has quite an intriguing story behind it... My brother, Robin( in 'Recommended Bloggers') likes to write stories like his awesome brother Owen, but he can never get past the first little bit. On one occasion, he emailed me a start of a story for me to expand on, and just tonight I thought I would start writing it again as this idea of aliens  popped into my head! I'll keep you posted!

Hungry birds in the garden...

Recently, Daniel bought some new bird feeders to hang in the garden, these feeders have attracted a few species of bird to the garden including sparrows, coal tits, great tits and Dunnocks. These have been intriguing to watch as they hop about the branches of trees, sending leaves towards the ground. Hopefully they'll keep coming, and maybe in more numbers! I'll keep you posted!

Sparrowhawks Galore!

I can't take credit for this photo sadly! I wish I could!

A few weeks ago my mother saw a spectacular site in the back garden, a sparrowhawk swooped out of the sky and grabbed a small blackbird. It landed near a large tree standing at the far end of the garden and started to pluck the feathers of the blackbird and tearing the flesh off it's skeleton. You may think this is horrific, but I ,on the other hand, thought this was fascinating! On another occasion, set on Bank holiday Monday just gone, whilst we were strolling along the waggonways towards Holywell Dene, a blackbird came out of a bush and a sparrowhawk swooped down, grabbed it and flew off with it! I absolutely LOVE birds and they really fascinate me, especially birds of prey. I know that there is a person that may be reading this that shares my love for these winged creatures, yes I'm talking about you, Cain Scrimgeour! I'll keep you posted!

Wild garlic and Wood sorrel

A little while ago, me and my brother Daniel( I know you may think this is his blog, here's his link- danielrogers05.blogspot.co.uk) were in Holywell Dene, strolling along the river there, when he pointed out a plant. This certain plant was wild garlic. Wild garlic is just like the bulbs you can buy in the supermarket, they grow from the bulbs and you can eat the whole plant. It is a lot stronger fresh from the ground! He also recently told me about a tiny plant that usually grows on the edge of woodland paths called wood sorrel. It tastes like the juice from a green apple and you can also eat the whole plant. Look at these pics so you know what they look like, so you can try them when you're out and about, if you're brave enough, that is. I'll keep you posted!

Yet more pond problems

This part down here was also flooded, luckily not the plants!

During the heavy rain that has swept the north-east of England, my pond overflowed onto the grassy area in front of it. At this point in time you may be thinking 'you're joking right, there is a drought not far south from the northeast'  and yes I do know that thank-you, but the real problem is that nearly all of the tadpoles in the pond have swam onto the grass, when the water washes away, they will be trapped on land and they will die as they haven't fully developed into frogs. We are trying everything we can and hopefully most of them will survive. I'll keep you posted!

Pond plants

Twice this week I have been to Earsdon Garden centre to buy plants for the pond. Before we demolished the greenhouse last year, we grew rhubarb just in front of it, but when we began the building process, it died off and didn't come back. Luckily today we saw some rhubarb and bought it and planted it. We also came across redcurrants, whitecurrants and blackcurrants. We wanted to buy a blackcurrant plant but  there was only one and it was too small. We also bought some more violas and pansies.I'll keep you posted!

50 things before 12

Recently in the newspaper, my mother came across an article called 'The fifty things all children should do before the age of 12' and she read out each thing and I would say if I had done it or not. In the end, it turned out that there was only 9 I hadn't done which were: hunt for treasure on the beach, set up a snail race, make a mud slide, make a grass trumpet, catch a butterfly in a net, call an owl, bring up a butterfly, try bouldering- a form of rock climbing-, try abseiling and play geocache- a form of hide and seek using GPS-. I shall try and do all of these before 10:02pm on the 7th August 2012- when I turn 12- and I should have them all crossed off! I'll keep you posted!

My new work in progress

I told you that I was currently writing a book based on 'Conspiracy 365', well actually I haven't written any of it for quite a while, probably about 2.5 months, but I am writing a different book at the moment, it is a beginner's guide to minecraft, that's pretty much it's name, it's called 'A gamer's guide to Minecraft' and it tells you all you need to know about Minecraft when you're a beginner, not absolutely everything you can ever know about it, just the basics.I'll keep you posted!

Jaffa cake doughnuts!

The other day, the 5th April, I was in Whitley Bay with my sister, when I went to Gregg's and discovered an amazing new idea. I had my eye on a doughnut, which I thought was a caramel doughnut as the top of the doughnut in question is the same as the top of a caramel one. When I asked for the doughnut, the lady behind the counter asked 'The Jaffa cake doughnut, yes?' and I thought to myself, oh, that sounds quite nice! Sure enough, it had orange jam inside and sure enough, it was absolutely delicious! Gregg's never fail to amaze me! I'll keep you posted!

The cave

Yesterday I found myself clambering up the steep track of ' Loughrigg Fell', a 'Wainwright' mountain between Grasmere and Ambleside- in the Lake District- when my brother Daniel , who was walking ahead of me, turned to his left and expressed surprise on his face. I knew he had seen something but wasn't quite sure what. Despite this, still eager to discover, I ran up to him to find a dark, wide cave. I, being very adventurous, followed him into the cave. As we ventured inside, a small indent came into view and as we got closer, we realized it was a low tunnel which opened up into another cave. I expect miners were once here. I'll keep you posted!

Minecraft videos

I have recently been trying to record 'minecraft' videos to publish on 'YouTube'. Minecraft is a game where you have to build a house in the day time to hide in at night as there are monsters roaming the wilds trying to find and kill you. You should download it actually, it's very good. Anyway, I would really like to make some Minecraft videos because a lot of people do the same and it is really fun from what I gather. If I do eventually record and publish a video I'll tell you it's name and you can watch it. I'll keep you posted!