What i did at the weekend

On Saturday i got a new game called Pikmin. In it you are Captain Olimar, who has crash landed on a toxic planet,and a lot of his ship's parts have been lost. However this planet is home to the helpful little creatures called Pikmin(who are half plant and half animal.)Captain Olimar decides to enlist their aid to find all of his spaceship parts.It is a very fun game and i recommend this for people who like puzzle games. After i played a bit of Pikmin we went for a walk around Polmaddy(which is an old ruined village).In Polmaddy there was all kinds of ruined buildings, from an old inn to corn kilns(where corn was dried out).There were new signposts (which had information on Polmaddy).We also got some nice logs for the fire. It was a nice walk , until it started raining. After the walk we went and got some chips to warm us up again.

Our scottish history project

Recently me and my mum have been learning about the wars of independence, which happened in the early 1300s. The main figures of the time were William Wallace(the first freedom fighter in the war),Edward I of England (commonly known as longshanks) and Robert the Bruce (who was a noble before he became the king of Scotland ) . Below are pictures of the poster which we made.



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A Big update

Hello! I haven't posted in a while so this is going to be one BIG update.First things first.The other moth ,Tempest,(i got him soon after behemoth) has hatched! Interestingly whilst i was emptying the caterpillars jar i found their chrysalides (plural of chrysalis). Below is a picture of them



The next thing i am posting about is Aspergers syndrome.The reason why is that i have recently been diagnosed with Aspergers.So i got a couple of books on Aspergers syndrome. They are Martian in the playground(a fact book)and The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (which is a mystery murder novel)
There is a picture of them below.

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And the last thing i am posting about is a big bionicle project i have been working on(but it isn't finished yet). I present... the Arcana M2000!(the m stands for mach. That's fast). I am trying to make it bigger and better than the Axalara (a professionals model.)In the picture below the pilot is in the model.(Click on it to make it bigger)

Behemoth the moth!

Remember when i posted about my Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar? If you do then you may want to know that Behemoth has grown up into a moth and flown away! It came out of the soil a couple of evenings ago and its wings made the weirdest sound when they hit off the plastic.The cheeky moth flew away without a backwards glance(Probably because it didn't remember its caterpillarhood.)Below is a picture of him.(Yes he's the pink thing)


It took it 8 months 7 days to go from being a caterpillar to being a moth.That's quite some time.It was amazing to see him hatch and take flight. Hopefully the one that i got after behemoth will come out soon.

The restocking of a local loch.

Yesterday i went to see a local loch being restocked with tons of trout,400 to be precise!It was certainly interesting to see big brown trout and tasty rainbows leaping out the bucket.I took lots of photos and footage ,some of which will be below.

So here are two fishy videos.Enjoy!





Fishy action photo number 1


Fishy action photo number 2


I thought this was very interesting because it makes it clear where all those big trout came from,and it is also pretty unusual because it's not something you see everyday(or never in the case of some people)

The striding arches

On saturday we went to see the striding arches!!They are located in Cairnshead ,near Moniaive.I did some research and here are the results!

The striding arches are made by Andrew Goldsworthy out of local sandstone.There are three situated at a place called Cairnhead. One appears to be casually striding out of a disused byre whereas the other two are on nearby hills. There are also similar arches in Canada, also made out of sandstone from Scotland.These represent the mass emigration from Scotland to Canada during the time of the Clearances.


If you want to learn more here is the link for the striding arches website

www.stridingarches.com

The snow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple of days ago it snowed quite heavily and now we have an inch or two of snow! I have made a massive snowman and am making a second snowman.Then me and a couple of friends had a snowball fight. The next day we went sledging and it was really fun!

Here are some photos of the snowy fun!

The snowy and foggy hills!


The snowy street!


The snowy street!...Again!