Biggar!

On saturday we went to biggar, where Dan and Jaye(who we met in portugal)live!
Whilst we were waiting for a friend of ours to pick us up, me and my dad impulse bought an xbox 360 elite, which i will post about tommorow!(Mind you i did get viva pinata: Trouble in paradise and Fable 2)
When we got to Dan and Jaye's house they still had some snow, the lucky beggars!
Once we were inside there appeared to be a patch of snow in their hall,when suddenly it jumped up and started running about excitedly. It turned out that it was Ashka,Jaye's over-friendly white alsatian.
Also Yan The Reckless, Stuart(who we met in portugal),Erin,Ben(Yan's brother) ,Kieran(Erin's kid) and Louis (Ben's kid) were there!
Later on we played a swiss pub game called(rather originally)Nails!
What happens is that everybody gets three nails (lightly hammered into the log) to start with. Then you had to try to knock them all in with the pointy side of the hammer.It was very fun especially when i came up with the one nail version,in which you had to hit the nail as hard as you could.If it wasn't your turn you would probably end up hiding somewhere. We had lots of fun especially when we were playing nails!

Here is a group picture!

The Christmas Decorations!!

Yesterday we put up our Christmas tree! This year we have gone for a silvery white colour scheme,to look a bit like snow(No snow here yet,unfortunately.)Last time we were in Leicester i bought a special hand blown glass bauble from Pastimes and it cost about 4 pounds, which i think is a bit too expensive for a bauble, but it is very special and quite pretty!Here is a picture of the tree!

The special bauble is near the golden tinsel at the top!



Also we are starting to get other decorations up elsewhere including tinsel,which we have a good few tons of but my dad is still complaining that we don't have enough,the tinsel maniac that he is!

PS: This is my second favourite part of Christmas.
PPS:My favourite? Opening the presents,eating all the chocolate and playing with all my new toys.
PPPS: Actually my favourite part of Christmas is listening and dancing to frosty the snowman!

Totonique Valley Express 2!

What's this picture about? Is it someone on fire? No. It is a long exposure shot of Yan pushing me all over the place in a wheelbarrow at about a million miles an hour!By the way the white line thing is the torch and the orangey thing is the fire! The best ride i went on(you may already know this) went nearly off a cliff, nearly into a muddy riverbed then nearly into a gorse bush, then i almost got flattened by a huge rock. Then we went back towards the house and nearly hit the spinach bush, then round the back into the pitch black and the washing line.

The second picture of the madness!

Viva Pinata

A wee while ago i got viva piñata!!In it you take over an old wrecked piñata garden and rebuild it to include all the piñata species on Piñata island! From time to time Piñata central will send you a request to send them piñatas to be bashed apart by sweet mad kids.I always say no for the sake of piñata rights. In it the best Piñata i have is the legendary Dragonache!! It is a brilliant game and i still haven't drawn the Chewnicorn out of hiding,the slippery beggar!!

Here is the dragonache!!Note: This picture is from Trouble In Paradise. You can tell by the fact that a limeosaurus is standing there.Also this is not from my game!

The recent weather!

This morning i woke up and looked out of the window and it was white as far as the eye can see! It was really good when i got to go outside into this white wonderland!Unfortunately there was no snow as far as i could see ,just frost.Hopefully it will snow soon!However it wasn't that cold that long ago(it was really rainy)so the cold hasn't had that much time to build up.Unfortunately all the frost had melted away before i could take any pictures.

Here is an overview of the things that we did in portugal!
Rude awakening,Tuesday
Aw,do i have to get up mum? It's half past four in the morning!
Arrival,Tuesday
We arrive in portugal!In this picture we are at faro train station!

Wall Building,over the week
We helped with building a wall to keep the cows out and the plants in!
Archery, Wednesday
I took my first shots today!In this picture i am preparing to take my first shot!

Ruin exploration, Wednesday
We had a look through all the abandoned old houses!
The door of the abandoned school of doooom!!

Stone rolling,Wednesday
We were rolling lots of stones down the hill when we found the cute salamander!In this picture the salamander is a bit startled,poor thing.

The medronho berry war, Thursday
On Thursday afternoon we splattered each other with gooey medronho berry's!
Music night,Thursday
We played lots of capoeira music through the night!
Pool Night,Saturday
We went to the local pub to play pool through the night!
Odemeira,Sunday
We went to the local supermarket and one of the things we found was an olive pic'n'mix type thing! Also on the way there we found an old ruined windmill!In this picture Yan is leaning over the pit of doom!

White-knuckle wheelbarrow rides,Monday
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Olive collection, Monday
We went out to peel the abandoned olive groves of "olive" their olives,ha ha!
Here is a picture of their spoils!!

A local's birthday, Monday
It was the birthday of one of the remaining inhabitants of Totenique valley so we went down and played some music!
Departure,Tuesday
Aw,do we have to leave portugal?In this picture i am sleeping on the plane!

Unusual Wildlife

Whilst we were in Portugal we found quite a lot of unusual wildlife!The first piece of unusual wildlife we found was the super-cute salamander,pictured below! Then we found The Monster Praying Mantis! It was about 2 1/2 inches long(i think), which is much bigger than praying mantis's should grow,It is pictured below! Then we found a grasshopper that was about an inch long (i think) and he had one heck of a jump on him!! He is in one of the pictures below



The salamander!


THE MONSTERRRRR!


Ker-Boing!!!(Note: he may be difficult to spot)