Christmas Presents

Here's a brief look at some of my presents.




Here is our christmas tree, obviously



Here's my Grandad, asleep. Hehe



Yard long Toblerone



And Again



Signed copy of Himalaya



Sorry, a bit blurred. It says: "To Daniel, Best Wishes, Michael Palin"

Christmas Blog

Just a quick blog to describe the wonders of christmas day. Photos may appear at a later date.

These were the presents i got, incase you were wondering:


Personalised signed copy of “Himalaya” book by Michael Palin (thanks to my brother)
British Isles: a natural Histroy book from my Nan and Grandad
Day after tomorrow on DVD
History of Aston Martin on DVD
A yard long Toblerone, about light saber length
Lots of chocolate
NOW 59 CD
PS2 game: Goldeneye: Rogue Agent

I think that’s it.

Hope you all had a cracking Christmas, and don’t forget to revise!!!

Damn exams…

Photos from the London trip

Here's Dave and Rowan on Nelson Column



Here's nearly all of us



Buckingham Palace, obviously



Baz, doing his Batman impression, whilst playing PDQ



It's that horse button again



Damn Chavs



This is a good photo, i think



What happened to Lewis?



Good old Davemeister Pose



Nobody really knows what this Woman was saying or doing



The last photo of the day

So there you go

Comment if you like on my new learnt skill.

Well, since it is nice and early, (8.30) I’ll describe what everybody else has blogged about – The Duds trip to london yesterday.

It started off very badly indeed, with the planned train to catch being cancelled. I think Otis was behind this. We caught a later train and Jon, Dave J, Andrew, Dicky, Rob and girlfriend Emily and myself went to London bridge on this train. We then had to change trains at London bridge onto a more crowded train to Charing Cross. Damn Otis.

We were supposed to see Davemeister and Steve at Clock House, but no luck. We got to charing cross, were Lewis was the only one waiting. We sneakedup on him. Very funny.

Anyway, the others, including Rowan and Sarah turned up after 25 minutes or so. Again, Otis is to blame for this.

We set off after it had stopped raining down the Mall. Several light saber photos were taken, which can be seen on Nonnesuch’s blog. Very good I thought.

We then went into St. Jame’s Park to play the good old game of PDQ. I won zero out of four. Rubbish Performance. We then walked onto Harrod’s in Kngihtbridge, got split up in Tie Rack before that though. Aren’t mobile phones handy?

Harrdo’s was very busy with rich people and tourists. And of course Chavs… and brats. We went in the toilets with free after shave, very swish. Saw lots of cool stuff. A magician showed a trick and Lewis knew how it was done. (The tapered card one – well done). We then waited outside for 10 minutes for Rowan to buy a doughnut, which he had almost eaten by the time he came back outside.

I saw a Ferrari 360 Modena (£100K +) in silver, which was nice. We then went on the tube to Victoria, had KFC for lunch, had to wait for the others again, then made our way to the Apple store on regent’s street. Very white and swish. We filmed Rowan annoying Lewis as well, which was hilarious. The queue was massive, and surely you can get ait all cheaper on Amazon or somewhere anyway.

After this we made our final stop at Borough Market where Lewis, Brownie Expert, finally found what he was looking for. I bought one off of Steve for £1.05. Very nice it was too.

We then all got split up again and all made our way home. A very enjoyable, but tiring day just to visit two shops.

group photo....hopefully

Group pho

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thrid test

large hagrid

test again

Large lego hagrid

Very quick blog. Went to london today. Very good indeed. I'll explain in finer detail tomorrow or christmas Eve

Bye until then

Pre-Christmas Post

Now that the christmas holidays are in full swing, i think i'll bloh again.

It's quarter to nine in the morning so thoughts are hopefully still fresh. I'm not sure what to expect from the trip on Wednesday, probably huge crowds of people and their brats. Damn Kids. It may also rain on wednesday i think, but let's not let it ruin the day. I have done almost no work so far during the holidays. I've done some of Moody's german (the sheets), i now have to learn 101 verbs with their inperfect tense. Bugger.

Then of course there's the chemistry 1000 word thing, Scotty too hotty's six questions (which have not even been looked at), Jacko's practice paper and general revision for both maths and chemistry. Oh dear...

The juggling is coming along well. I can do a max of nine rotations. I'm getting better, but not as good as t3h real juggleorz.

Christmas is only days away, but i'm not really feeling as excited as i usually do at this time of year. I think it's because the exams are looming with their syth, ready to cut us from any course we flop at. *cough* Dave Computing *cough*

Only joking

My brother is home for Christmas. He came back on the 10th December and I think he’s missing his pals up at Uni. Lancaster in case your wondering.

Also, on the news this morning, it was revealed that Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince has been completed. I’m guessing a release date of February to march of 2005.

Talking of news, yesterday it was revealed that Exeter university is closing it’s chemistry department. I’m not surprised. How many people at school are planning to do chemistry at Uni. I know of one – David Plummer, Imperial college.

Yesterday was a very relaxing day, because I watched a film. Cool Runnings. I’ve seen it many times before and think it’s brilliant. I’ll elaborate if anyone wants me to at a later date. At 8.30, I watched another film – Armageddon. I’ve got it on DVD. Although it’s a bit far fetched, I liked it.

I’m very easily pleased by films.

While I’m typing this, it appears that you, all of you, are offline. Is it that you are all asleep, or awake but not logged on??

Well, this should be it until Christmas. I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

You know what to do by now, hopefully…

Dan

Now is the time to blog i think.

There isn't really much to talk about though.

Juggling:

I've kind of taught myself to juggle. I'm better than when i first started, although nowhere near the amazing skills of t3hJuggleorz.

Wednesday:

The duds trip to london i'm sure is going to be great fun. I'm a virgin at this kind of thing, so i'll see what 14 player PDQ is like!!! I can't wait.

Losing Things:

I've suddenly contracted a disease, which makes me keep losing things in Westy's room. Firstly on tuesday, i lost my Chemical storylines Book, then yesterday, i left a cool photo of Herr. Westy in his room, and now i've left my pencil case in his room. Beware, it may be contageous.

I should be receiving my maths test results back tomorrow. I'm guessing 65 to 75%. Not too optimistic then. I'm failed basically.

Well, you know what to do

Just a short blog today

Dan

Part Two

Well, we entered and found out that it was actually a church, which gave the organisers an excuse from doing anything but sit their and look interested. No eating, drinking, smoking (not that I’d want to), talking on phones, phones. You get the idea. Anyway, the intro was so boring thateyfgvgdv. Sorry fell asleep thinking about it. Moving on, the first lecture was particle physics. A boring start compared to the rest of the day. Nether-the-less, it was quite interesting listening about particle accelerators. As Dave, said, we already knew most of it. All he was trying to do was flog his book.

After this was how to succeed in physics exam by boring guy. Lewis, Jon, Rob, Andrew, Sanjay and I were all scribbling notes frantically. Dave on the other hand, wrote: “Use bullet points”. Wise guy. A break was to follow this. As soon as the last sound wave from Tim’s mouth hit the eardrums of the listeners they were gone. Woooossshhh. Downstairs to eat, drink talk etc. The whole hall probably emptied in 2 minutes. We masticated for a while, I excreted excess water and then we returned to the rock hard Pews made of wood. At least buy some cushions or something. The next lecture was about how Einstein’s brain was cut up. Whhooopppeee. So what? Well, a 93 year old has hard hearing. So what? All rather pointless, except for the life-size model of Einstein’s brain. Rather cool technology stuff.

After this was the highlight of the day. Not enough time to explain it all. Most of you reading this will know what it’s like anyway. Cool guy with beard, Beardy and the wife he locks in the cupboard with her sound equipment until she is needed. Tyler should really get a wave maker with red lights on the end. Rather good teaching tool I thought. Buy Tyler Buy!!! Beardy then broke the microphone buy shouting MOO too loud. Funny at the time. Hehe.

At last, lunch at 1325. We walked to Lambeth Bridge, a 5 to 10 minute walk from the church. We then sat down next to the river, which Rowan thought wasn’t tidal. Idiot. tut. Anyway, we ran to a bench and Lewis was found to be the rotten egg. Ha. We ate some lunch and thanks to some persuasion from Lewis, we played a game of PDQ. Great fun because I won a game against Rob in the final. The best final was Rob vs. Dave. I can’t remember who won. Any help? We finished consuming our midday snack, and on the way back met two extrodinary people. One black boy and one applied science looking white boy.

Black boy says: “Anyone wanna buy a bike”

This is whilst he’s wheeling it along. Applied science looking kid stays in the background looking shifty. We all mumble no and I tell Richard in german that he has stolen the bike. He agrees and I feel like I want to hit the black kid. I once had my bike stolen, but that’s another story.

I’ll wrap this up quickly, because you may, or may not be getting bored. Lasers was next, which I found quite fasinating. Great. The final lectures was an amazing juggling display by a guy with a maths Phd. Very entertaining if not a bit confusing. Well, thanks for your patients.

In the words of the Davemeister

Bye for now

Well. I know I haven’t blogged in a long time, but I believe this is worth a blog. Yesterday was the one and only physics trip that we’d planned since September. I was just hoping that it wasn’t going to be as boring as the chemistry trip in October. My God that was the most boring thing I have ever seen. .

Any way, on with the day. As with the Davemeister, I got up at normal time. I left about five minutes later in my Dad’s car – a Mazda6. Very nice it is too – New in July. I’m sorry about the bus Dave, but the lift was cheaper and quicker. I arrived at Bromley south at about 0810. The Plummer twins were there, who I greated, and I ignored Adam Large. We discussed Jeans. Were they allowed? We were unsure. I queued up for my Victoria return with Duncan and Matt Howard. £6.20. Rather dear I thought.

I turned around and there was Dave, just waiting like in the “Endliche Pause” German trip photo. Hehe. We both waited for others to arrive. Lewis arrived, then Baz and Rob etc. Dave, Lewis and I went through the barrier to catch the Fast train at 0832. Rob stayed behind for Rowan. I mean of all people. So, Lewis, Dave and I stood up on the 26 minute train ride to Victoria. Crowded it was. Damn Rush Hour.

Once at Victoria, there was a mad rush to try and get out of the station as quickly as possible. Why!!!!, the doors aren’t going to suddenly close or something. (Platform 5 for you train bods out there)

So, we find the meeting point, and only Barker is there before us. He thought it was a 0900 meet. Hehe. We waited until 0930. That came and went. The Beast was late!!! Da da dum. He arrived at least 2 minutes late. Disgraceful. Well we walked for about 15 minutes there, got our tickets and entered……

Part Two will come your way shortly.

a Post Scriptum

Some Weird Guy at the station kept asking the guys from our school for something in a weird and strange manner. Very Odd.