tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75232449614651176522024-03-13T02:16:24.474+00:00Major Love of FilmRachel (nearly 9) blogging about films, books, holidays and all things fun
(with a little help from Emma, her mum)LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.comBlogger499125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-30110763539385683772015-01-13T14:10:00.002+00:002015-01-13T14:10:48.320+00:00Where have all the blog posts gone?Notice from Emma<br />
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You might have seen that a dozen or so blog posts from the end of last year have disappeared from the blog. We are really sorry, but they became corrupted and we couldn't retrieve them and repair them. Rachel and I are really upset that her posts have gone but it won't stop us blogging more in the future.LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-13690406024756123042015-01-13T14:03:00.000+00:002015-01-13T14:06:02.416+00:00Me and my double bass<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think you know<br />
I play the double bass<br />
It's loads of fun<br />
But takes up lots of space<br />
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It deep and rich<br />
But really rare<br />
Not many people play it<br />
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Here's me in the first month of playing, it's the star wars tune
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And here I am a few months later. This is a d major scale
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And you should be able to see me playing in a double bass group here
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I really liked the meercat section when they were on the island and when they were in the boat with the Tiger.  I didn't like the first part of the boat section, it was horrible in bits. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Do you think the Tiger was real? </b><br>
I don't know; I don't think the Tiger was really there in the boat but perhaps there was no one in the boat at all and he imagined it all so he had company. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Do you think the film tells us anything about God? </b><br>
I'm not sure. It says that it's nice to believe but that a lot of it is by us to help us understand. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Would you watch the film again? </b><br>
Yes, definitely. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Do you think it's ok for kids? </b><br>
Yes, it's not scary and it's not really sad when you watch it.  It probably needs a lot of thinking about though.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>What score do you give it? </b><br>
9/10</p>
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<p dir="ltr">These are the questions I asked Rachel about the film.  Our conversation about God went into a lot of detail and I think she got it perfectly right when she said that religion is believing in something we can't understand.  We have stories which help us know a bit about God but in the end we just have to have faith and know only God knows everything about Him and life. <br>
Emma</p>
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<br>1 pack of lasagne sheet 75p<div>1 jar of bolognese sauce 89p</div><div>1 jar of white sauce 89p</div><div>200g of grated cheddar £1.00</div><div>500g of minced beef £1.00</div><div>Onion 10p</div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Total £4.66</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We also had:</div><div>Tear and share garlic bread £1.00</div><div>Treacle Tart £1.00 </div><div>Tiramisu £1.00</div><div>3litres of fruit juices £2.00</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Total £5.00</div><div><br></div><div>The entire meal cost less than £10 for four adults and four children. That is phenomenal value especially when I tell you it tasted as good as any meal out for about a sixth of the price.</div><div><br></div><div>Well done Morrisons; you have surpassed yourself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-X11Djo0hyzg/U2VSeQBt6_I/AAAAAAAASqI/a7hITkVWZw0/s1600/20140503_130458.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-X11Djo0hyzg/U2VSeQBt6_I/AAAAAAAASqI/a7hITkVWZw0/s320/20140503_130458.jpg"> </a> </div>LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-27738574966836193552014-05-02T21:03:00.002+01:002014-05-02T21:06:10.910+01:00Bank Holiday Shopping @morrisons #FoodForFriends #MorrisonsMum You should have heard Mike laugh when he heard I'd been sent £80 of Morrisons vouchers from BritMums to go to Morrisons, do my bank holiday shopping and write a review.<br />
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"You, food shop?"<br />
"I'd pay good money to see you do that!"<br />
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And that's exactly why I went today (Friday 1st May 2014) rather than wait until the weekend when he would be able to take the mick even more. (In case you don't know; Mike does the food shopping because food shops raise my anxiety levels through the roof.) I wasn't confident, I was nervous but I am trying to do a little challenge every day and this was it for today.<br />
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I drove the 3 miles into Reading for our nearest Morrisons. I remember it when it was Safeway (we lived a few minutes walk away) and have only been maybe twice since Morrisons took it over. I parked easily, such a pleasant change from the nightmare that is the ASDA carpark. <br />
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I found a trolley and off I went into the great unknown.<br />
I was surprised and impressed with the space and clarity of the layout in the fruit and vegetables area which was the first I encountered. There were bright coloured specimens all over the place, with clear signs and large price signs to help the shopper know exactly what everything costs. <br />
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Doesn't it look appealing; I challenge any toddler or teenager not to want to try some of these vegetables.<br />
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Here were my first three selections in my trolley.</div>
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Tomatoes which I thought were priced much as else where at 99p.</div>
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Avocados which were a huge bargain at 99p.</div>
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And my favourite fruit treat, strawberries, which were almost as cheap as they are in the summer at 99p.</div>
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I wish I was a better camera operator but look at this image below. These are salads and herbs and in order to keep them in their optimum condition Morrisons has a system of mist spraying over them. Not only does this show real care for the quality of the produce their selling, but it shows a level of ingenuity I have to say I didn't expect. </div>
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Add to that the fact that there was no water on the floor and I didn't get wet when I came up close and I am ready to declare it the best piece of produce display I've ever seen.<br />
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What else took me by surprise? The fish counter. It looked more like the Harrods Food Hall than my expectations of Morrisons. I'm a horrible snob aren't I! (don't answer that) There were even the nicest looking oysters which were so tempting, but not on my list.<br />
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I'm not a massive olive fan but I know a man who is and this would have been impossible for him to walk past. He never ever ever shops off the list but I guarantee that when I take him to Morrisons he'll be walking out with a bowl full of his own selection of olives.<br />
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And this is the self serve salad bar. <br />
It was full to the brim with literally everything you could ever want from pasta and rice through vegetables cooked and raw to fruit from the four corners of the world. My only issue is that the salad boxes could never be big enough for the selection on offer.<br />
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I had fizzy drinks on my list and I definitely wanted diet lemonade. I know it's often expensive, which means it's not something we often have in the house, but look at the Morrisons great value prices, I got 4litres of diet lemonade for 90p. What a steal.<br />
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Because I don't know the Morrisons Reading store I wondered up and down every aisle looking at what was on the shelves and getting the items from my list. I was pleasantly surprised by the wine aisle(s); it felt more like an upmarket wine store than the middle of a supermarket. There was a wide variety of wine from across the globe, something for every meal and every palate.</div>
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There is nothing that speaks of holidays to me more than the smell of fresh bread; it is all the holidays in France that does it. Morrisons did not let me down with at least a dozen types of fresh bread baked on the premises.</div>
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And as for France; just look at this image of a boulangerie in store. Bon.<br />
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As I was concluding my shop I found this wonderful collection of summer games and sports equipment; everything a family could want for the bank holiday weekend at home, at the park or on the beach. <br />
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I got a huge smiley faced ball for 99p as you'll see in the essential final photo; the trolley shot. £74.95 of Food For Friends over a three day bank holiday and food for the rest of the week for our family.<br />
We usually spend £95 per week including toiletries and the like which I didn't get, but even with this taken into account there is no doubt that the Morrisons shop was cheaper, the experience more pleasurable and the staff more friendly than those Mike or I usually encounter.<br />
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And the quality of the food, which in the end is the thing which matters the most to me. <br />
I'm unbelievably impressed. There are two main areas which matter the most to me when it comes to shopping and which stop me using online ordering (no one knows just how I like my bananas)<br />
1- The fruit and veg - it is fresh and in perfect condition<br />
2 - The bread - just perfect, it takes me right back to sunny mornings with a book. <br />
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We're making lasagne tomorrow and I'll blog all about that separately because we're using products entirely from the Morissons store and working out the cost per person; it'll be feeding 4 adults and 4 kids. I also bought a 22p cake mix which I couldn't resist buying to try out; that will have it's own blog post as well. Watch this space.<br />
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All that's left is to wonder which aisle I needed to go down to purchase the perfect weather for a bank holiday weekend because it doesn't look like it'll be very cooperative. But at least we'll be eating well to make up for it. Thank you Morrisons.LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-46929088399574378822014-05-02T15:16:00.004+01:002014-05-03T22:45:38.131+01:00How tasty is a 22p cake? @Morrisons #MorrisonsMumHow tasty?<div>"Really good" according Rachel</div><div>"A bit weird" according to me</div><div>
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I'd bought these wonderful animal shapes for the kids to use as decorations alongside sprinkles and butterflies we already have. The kids had a great time using white icing amd over sprinkled everything they could. The results were impressive though.</div><div><br></div><div>But what I really cared about was the taste. </div><div>They were light and strangely springy and the flavour was hard to identify. It wasn't unpleasant but not really very interesting. The men identified it first; "it's like a flan" and they were exactly right.</div><div><br></div><div>So no; I don't think I'll get the mix again UNLESS it's as a super cheap base for practicising cake decorating.i</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ISHnit4ZWig/U2Vjf1x7C3I/AAAAAAAASqY/aXsF4CoZtuk/s1600/20140503_153903.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ISHnit4ZWig/U2Vjf1x7C3I/AAAAAAAASqY/aXsF4CoZtuk/s320/20140503_153903.jpg"> </a> </div>LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-57038678219957026362014-04-21T13:36:00.000+01:002014-04-21T13:37:17.100+01:00Haven Littlesea Holiday Park Weymouth #review #haven #litlesea<span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">We visited Haven Littlesea in the first week of the Easter Holidays 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The only part of the facilities which we wouldn't recommend was the evening entertainment. The room is very dark and the speakers set very loud which doesn't make for a great place to sit and chat. However the Mash and Barrel is the place for that. We just have to accept that entertainment of that sort isn't our thing. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; line-height: 19px;">Fair review information.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; line-height: 19px;">We have never stayed at a holiday park in the UK before but have been commissioned to visit a selection of parks over the next few years to review here on our blog (Major Love of Film) and on trip advisor. We are not being paid for our reviews but are being given the accommodation for free. We have been asked to be as honest as possible to help other families select their holidays and to independently assess the holiday parks for their own improvement systems</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">.</span></span></i>LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-54223760657559329592013-10-23T08:18:00.001+01:002013-10-23T08:18:51.536+01:00A cat #kenning<p dir=ltr>Loud hissing<br>
Sharp scratching<br>
Soft purring<br>
Noisy meowing<br>
Fast lapping<br>
Milk drinking<br>
Paw licking<br>
Ear washing<br>
Mouse stalking<br>
Human loving<br>
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<p dir=ltr>By Rachel (age 8)</p>
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Carrying then in my arms<br>
Raining cats and dogs<br>
Getting too heavy for me<br>
Oh no! Dropping cats and dogs</p>
<p dir=ltr>by Rachel (age 8)</p>
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<p dir=ltr>What would you do if a Comet was coming to Earth?  This book tells you what the moomins did. </p>
<p dir=ltr>The moomins are white fluffy creatures who live in the forest. When all the animals start acting strange moomintroll recognised it as a warning sign.  The book tells us what it means and what they do about it. </p>
<p dir=ltr>My Favourite part is at the end but I can't tell you why, you will have to read it. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I think the book would be suitable for seven year old and up, even adults. <br>
I would give it ten out of ten. </p>
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<b>Isn't he great</b><br />
<b>Out of a toilet roll tube</b><br />
<b>He's easy to make</b><br />
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<b>Use pens for the eyes</b><br />
<b>It won't take you years</b><br />
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Mum wrote this poem and made the first owl, I made five baby owls to go with it and then we wrote a story about them .... watch this space.<br />
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I got the idea from one of my craft books and it was amazing fun.<br />
It took me about an hour and a half to make it.<br />
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<li>Then I drew a quite large circle and cut it out - this means I had two large circles</li>
<li>I took the circles together and folded them in half</li>
<li>Then I cut a smaller semi circle from this larger one - to make a ring</li>
<li>I took the smaller two circles (cut out from the large one) and cut a heart shape in it<br />Now I had two large rings, two smaller rings with heart centres and two hearts</li>
<li>I cut a piece of wool to the length I wanted my mobile and laid it on the table.</li>
<li>I put one large circle under the wool and glued all over it</li>
<li>I stuck the other large circle over the top - to hold the wool in place</li>
<li>I did the same with the heart centred circles and with the hearts.</li>
<li>Once the glue was dry I painted the circles and hearts and decorated them.</li>
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When it was all finished I hung it up to dry and it's still there in our conservatory looking great.<br />
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<br />LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-35973878065017491302013-03-28T16:16:00.000+00:002013-03-28T16:16:01.669+00:00Sand ArtI've been off sick most of this week with a tummy bug :(<br />
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But it's meant we've had loads of time at home to do art and craft :)<br />
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Mum had got a sand art kit and we did that yesterday. It was super easy to use with a funnel for the bottles. There were eight different colours and enough to fill all three bottles and some spare.<br />
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Mum went mad with all the colours but I like it anyway<br />
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I was ill on red nose day but I have now done something funny for money, I made a silly hat out of pipe cleaners and pulled funny faces.<br />
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<br />LLM Callinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17199375981896229914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523244961465117652.post-54598616064266284462013-02-09T17:27:00.001+00:002013-02-09T17:28:48.216+00:00A tiny twisted tale review<p dir=ltr>I was sent three of the tiny twisted tale books to review.  They are Jenny, pale Henry and Stuart the big eating man.  This review is about Jenny.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Jenny isn't a girlie girl, she likes to hunt werewolves!  The story is about one of her adventures with her trusty bat to hit the werewolves with.</p>
<p dir=ltr>I really like the book because it rhymes which is like a song you sing through the book.  The pictures are brilliant and really funny, especially of the werewolf.</p>
<p dir=ltr>I wouldn't normally read books about werewolves but I'm really pleased I tried this because it's brilliant.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The book is easy to read and that's great because you can read it again and again.  It's really good to read out loud as well.</p>
<p dir=ltr>I definitely recommend it and can't wait till the new ones come out.</p>
<p dir=ltr>8/10 <br>
<i>because I wish it was longer</i><br>
If it was then I'd give it full marks.</p>
<p dir=ltr><b>By Rachel (age 7)</b></p>
<p dir=ltr>Emma (mum) says:<br>
The tiny twisted tale books are written and illustrated by Calvin Innes and published by <a href="http://mylittlebigtown.com">my little big town</a>.  They are "a collection of spooky, scary, strange, disgustingly wonderful and wonderfully macabre stories" designed to engage children with books which they enjoy.  I would never have picked a book like this off the shelf at the library of local book shop, I wouldn't have thought it would appeal to Rachel.  But now she's read it about 10 times in two days I've realised that I'm not the expert in her choice of books.  A good lesson for all us parents.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Title: <a href="http://www.mylittlebigtown.com/mylittlebigstore/childrens-books/65-jenny-9781907746178.html">Jenny</a><br>
Series: Tiny Twisted Tales<br>
Author: Calvin Innes<br>
Illustrator: Calvin Innes<br>
ISBN10/ISBN13: 1907746055 / 9781907746178<br>
Reading Age: 7+<br>
Pages: 88<br>
First Published: January 2012</p>
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Three arms<br>
Three legs<br>
All on one creature</p>
<p dir=ltr>Wirkey my animal<br>
Doesn't make a sound<br>
That's my wirkey<br>
Rolling around</p>
<p dir=ltr>I made him<br>
I designed him<br>
I look after him<br>
I love him</p>
<p dir=ltr>That's my wirkey</p>
<p dir=ltr>By Rachel (7)</p>
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I look up at the wall<br>
And notice something <br>
Very very tall</p>
<p dir=ltr>Looking down at us<br>
She seemed to be<br>
Looking right at<br>
You and me</p>
<p dir=ltr>Did she want my pizza<br>
Or my tasty garlic bread<br>
I couldn't keep eating<br>
I was watching her instead</p>
<p dir=ltr>By Rachel (age 7)<br>
Xxxxx</p>
<p dir=ltr>This picture by Kim Nelson reminded me of a picture in an Italian restaurant.  I wrote this poem about what it would be like sitting in the restaurant eating pizza.</p>
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Oh how small he was<br>
Wheeny tiny</p>
<p dir=ltr>When Tommy came<br>
Oh how excited<br>
We were</p>
<p dir=ltr>When Tommy came<br>
Oh how often we thought<br>
Wow!</p>
<p dir=ltr>By Rachel (7)</p>
<p dir=ltr>I wrote this when mum was writing her <a href="http://llmcalling.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/wow.html">wow poem</a></p>
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Shining through the winter night<br>
Windows windows<br>
Gleaming making the dark bright<br>
Windows windows<br>
Safe from all the darkness fright<br>
Windows windows<br>
Beautiful gleaming wonderful light<br>
Windows windows</p>
<p dir=ltr>Xxxxx</p>
<p dir=ltr>I wrote this because <a href="http://llmcalling.blogspot.com">mummy was writing poems</a> about windows and I came up with something.</p>
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<p dir=ltr>The photos are me on the game. You can see me on screen with my wand, and playing the game and with my moving Harry Potter picture. It's brilliant.</p>
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<p dir=ltr>I'm having lots of fun<br>
In the sun<br>
On the beach<br>
With ice cream to eat</p>
<p dir=ltr>It's not too hot<br>
I like it a lot<br>
We're close to home<br>
You can call on mum's phone</p>
<p dir=ltr>Wish you were here<br>
Love<br>
Rachel</p>
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Children in need<br>
Raising money<br>
For children in need<br>
Wear your pyjamas<br>
Have lots of fun<br>
You can raise money<br>
By having fun!!</p>
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<p><b>Go pyjamas</b></p>
<p>They are asking us to do something in our pyjamas to raise money for children in need.</p>
<p>I asked my school of we could come in on Friday 16th November 2012 in our pyjamas.  I had to put this to school council and my class representative told me that they agreed.  That means our whole school will come to school in their pyjamas that day and raise lots of money.</p>
<p>I've also asked my dad to go to work in his pyjamas but I don't think he wants to join in.  Do you think he should?</p>
<p>Mum says we could do a <b>go pyjamas</b> at church but it won't be until Sunday 18th November 2012.  It could work brilliantly though because we are doing a session on shepherds that day and shepherds look like they wear pyjamas anyway.</p>
<p>What are you doing in your pyjamas?</p>
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<p>I'd never heard of monster high before but it's amazing.  It's a cartoon like a mix between high school musical and Halloween.  There are monsters who go to one school and normies who go to another.</p>
<p>In the film the monsters and especially the ghouls - girls - try to make friends with the normies who think the monsters are really scary.</p>
<p>I give it 9/10 because it's funny and cool.<br>
Mum gives it 7/10 because it is not for kids but she likes the way everyone is together at the end and are friends even though they're all really different.</p>
<p>My favorite character is Frankie Stein, she has different coloured eyes and she is really cool.  Which character do you like from the film?</p>
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