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Report: Egg rolling on Good Friday

Happy Easter everyone!
To top it off, I present to you the official egg rolling report...

On Friday morning, Wicks, Ruby, ANT and Master gathered at Wicks' house to paint eggs. ArwaChihuahua was also meant to be there, however she could not make it at the last minute due to extra work (even though everyone secretly thought that she was sleeping in). It has to be said that we were all hanging onto our hopes that she was gonna be finished soon, but those hopes were dashed when she sent ANT 'The Classic K' in a text (just the one letter, k, can say so much. In this case it said something along the lines of, 'Ok, stop bothering me now, I'm working').

I think it's fair to say that when we arrived at Wicks', we discovered that they had quite a variety of squash, for example, orange (a favourite in the household), pomegranate and raspberry (Wicks' personal favourite), peach (is Master the only one who has never tried this, because Wicks says it's 'quite standard'?), and many more.

Onto the actual painting, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun! We were making different colours, experimenting with different tools (Ruby used kitchen towel, Wicks ventured on to using permanent marker and ANT was using both sides of the paint brush) and washing brushes in paint contaminated water that very closely resembled fabric softener (which is what we called it for the duration of the morning).

We all had 2 eggs each, but how did we decorate them? Here's a little description for you:
ANT 1: 'The Ninja' - rather self explanatory. As ANT said, this one's 'out to win'
ANT 2: 'Mrs Potato Head' - "Don't be fooled by her. She may look pretty but she's a winner!" - ANT
Ruby 1: Wonderfully simple, but effective.
Ruby 2: 'Happy Easter' - with the theme of a basket of eggs, this is definitely the most suitable one for the occasion.
Wicks 1: 'Day & Night' - pro skills went into this creation: half was painted as day, the other as night
Wicks 2: 'Team' - this had everyone's names on it, which automatically meant that everyone wanted this to win!
Master 1: 'Tequila Sunrise' - named by Wicks' mother, the idea of the eagle came from ANT, which is meant to be a symbol of power and victory
Master 2: 'André the Double Ombré' - this time named by Wicks, this was inspired by sunsets, not to mention that Maste's obssession with ombré that day was a major influnce
As ArwaChihuahua was absent, we decided to paint hers...
ArwaChihuahua 1: 'Ya Snooze Ya Lose' - on one side is a clock, whilst the other side bore ANT's favourite saying
ArwaChihuahua 2: 'Marble Egg' - the idea for this was one that came along very near the end of the painting session. This was a joint effort by Wicks (who flicked paint onto the egg) and ANT (who protected the surroundings by providing a screen behind the egg)

Here's a pic of the finished eggs:

Top row (from left to right): 'Mrs Potato Head', 'Ya Snooze Ya Lose', 'Marble Egg', 'Day & Night', 'Team'
Bottom row (from left to right): 'The Ninja', 'Ruby 1', 'Happy Easter', 'André the Double Ombré', 'Tequila Sunrise'

So, what happened afterwards? Well, we set out, with the eggs carefully packed, to a nearby field that had an appropriate slope. Here's a pic:

We took turns filming at the bottom of the slope and also rolling our eggs.
One of the most memorable eggs has got to be 'Marble Egg', which refused to show any signs of cracking for an extraordinary amount of time. For a while, we had a conspiracy that there was one free range egg and that might be the one? But, near the end, all the eggs refused to crack so we ended up aiming to crack them. All sense of winning went out of the window and it just turned into a game of hurtling eggs onto the ground. They were so tough that they were creating egg-shaped dents in the ground upon impact.
There was one point when Wicks came up with the idea that perhaps we could try to smash eggs with other eggs, so ANT and Master aimed and it just so happened that, by a fluke, Master had aimed rather well and both eggs smashed in a horrendous mess on the floor.

After some 1 and a half hours of egg smashing, we called it a day and went home. Who knew that egg rolling could be so much fun? We plan to make it an annual event from now on.

Special thanks to Wicks for buying the eggs.
Thanks go to ANT for providing paint and brushes.
Extra thanks to everyone in attendance. I had the best time ever with you all :)

Cheers for reading! ;)

Weekly News Round-Up #24: 24/03/2013

Not an awful lot to say this week, but here it is...

Due to Wadz and ANT's ongoing conflict about shoelaces, Wadz has developed a new way of shaming someone. It shares the same principle as being 'bushed' (pushed into a bush) or 'snowed' (falling into snow), so we present to you...'shoe-ed'! Whenever someone's shoelace is undone, Wadz has decided that she will point at them (most likely to be ANT) and shout, 'absolutely shoe-ed'!

Tuesday saw a rather interesting topic being discussed. It seems to be an issue, especially to Wicks, that she finds people asking her if they are in her way. Even if they are in your way, you always answer, 'no, of course not!' because in that moment you're caught off guard and just selflessly dismiss your own needs. It even happens in supermarkets when the shop assisstant asks you, but you end up helping them instead of it being them who should help you! Who else has experienced this?

As many will know, this week has seen most people doing their final Language assessment. Whilst Ruby was revising, she made the mistake of asking Wicks, ANT and Master to test her on some possible questions. The three took it upon themselves to come up with the most irrelevant and absurd questions to ask. Here are a few examples:
"What is the colour of your uncle's car?"
"Describe in detail the traditional clothing of Somalia."
"What is the capital of Uganda?"
"What is the meaning of life? Leave your answer in surd form."
If you thought that last one was asked by ANT, you're correct :)

I think it is fair to say that one of the funniest things that happened this week has got to be when ArwaChihuahua spilt yogurt on herself, which did leave quite a noticeable stain. It seems that she doesn't even need Wicks to do it for her anymore ;p

In their German lesson, ANT, ShoeLobber and Master were set the grand task of writing a poem (in German, of course). They came up with an Easter poem of sorts, but the real fun came when they were writing it up. ShoeLobber had decided that they were going to write it so that the letters would alternate between red and blue. So, to speed up te process, they developed quite a system were Master would switch the pens and ShoeLobber would write. It was truly something incredible if you'd ever seen it :)

It appears that Wadz and ANT have had quite a few disagreements this week, almost enough to rival ArwaChihuahua and Wicks. On the way back home on Thursday, they managed to have two separate arguments on the same road! Now that's a record to beat.
The first argument was about Wadz's sofa. The second was about Wadz's running habits. It should be noted that these seemingly trivial topics caused them both to be shouting at the tops of their voices. Deary me...

But here we have the topic of the week...
Druids don't eat eggs (or cake for that matter).
It was also decided that that was one of the main reasons why Morgana and Mordred (from Merlin) were never happy with their lives; because they couldn't have birthday cake!
On a side note, has anyone, apart from Wicks, heard of egg rolling? We'll leave you with some homework if you don't know what it is ;)

Until next week, have a good one :)

Happy Easter!

Have an amazing day, whatever you're doing!

It's Good Friday!

I hope you all have an amazing day :)
Let's get ready for Sunday...!

MouseMouseMonday #23: YouTube Channels that you should check out

Hello!

Now, I've had the idea for this post in my head for quite a while, so I thought I'd put the plan into action...

Today, I've got 3 YouTube channels lined up for you, all of which I'm subscribed to and I know that myself and many of my mates, including Wicks and ConscienceSarah, thoroughly enjoy their videos.

Number 1: CinemaSins
Funny, with sarcasm to rival ANT, these are quite pedantic videos. Check out 'Everything Wrong With The Avengers In 3 Minutes Or Less':

Number 2: Bad Lip Reading
It's truly incredible what happens when people turn off the sound in movies and use their imagination. You'll see what I mean if you watch '"The Hunger Games" - A Bad Lip Reading':

Number 3: How It Should Have Ended
With absolutely brilliant animations and almost identical voices to the real actors & actresses, this channel is definitely one of Wicks and Master's favourites. Take a look at 'How Harry Potter Should Have Ended':

That's all for today, folks!
Until next time :)

Weekly News Round-Up #23: 17/03/2013

I think it's fair to say that the theme of fancy dress has made many appearances, but apart from that, we also have this season's colour trend report, along with an account of the most intense battle the week has seen. So, let's get on with it...

In Form time this week, ANT decided that we would play a game called 'Guess Where Everyone Will Be In 10 Years Time' (now, I think it's pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not gonna bother explaining it). ANT and Master both had similar futures in mind, which included owning a house and having a job. Meanwhile, Ruby considered going to the Moon and building stables for unicorns. Seems like we'll be spread all over the universe, eh? ANT had some rather abstract ideas for other members of the form, for example, a wig shop owner/tattoo artist...

I can't seem to recall how we got onto the topic of parties, but it sure resulted in us coming up with quite a few fun ideas. One idea was a Greek Mythology fancy dress party, and, if this was to happen, Wicks decided that she would go as Persephone. On the other hand, Ruby thought she'd make a good Medusa, and Master took a fancy to the idea of being a Fury. Another party idea was an Avengers/Superheroes fancy dress party. What party would you have?

Breaking News: ANT has spoken, and it has been officially announced that the colour of the season is...Robin Hood Green.

Wednesday lunchtime proved to be a challenging one as ArwaChihuahua and Wicks attempted to perform the seemingly impossible task of hi-5-ing eachother with both their feet.

It may seem that the two of them are getting along just perfectly, however, later on in the week, ANT had to resort to creating a barrier in the style of 'The Way of the Warrior' to stop the two of them from attacking eachother.

This has been quite an important week in Wicks' life as she has discovered a new talent, which will result in her name being 'Wicks: Wasp Whisperer' for the rest of eternity. Read the full story here.

As many of you will already know, Friday was Red Nose Day, which obviously called for all senior students to attend school in fancy dress.
Here are a few characters that we spooted on the day: Batman, Bane, a banana, Superman, a Transformer, a sumo, a guy with a sombrero (classic), Ginny Weasley (?), a lion, and 2 Captain America's.
We also came up with some costume ideas for when we become senior students: a lunchbox theme (all dress up as food), a pencil case theme (all dress up as different stationery), the Avengers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, or Transformers.
Who would you dress up as?

Mini-discussion of the week: Would you eat something off a floor, that you didn't know what had been on it previously, or your kitchen waste bin? Discuss.

After a borderline average week, in terms of work load, ANT and Master decided to finish the week with some real brain-boggling stuff in their Period 6 German lesson. They were in the computer suite and just happened to be doing word searches on a Languages website. They thought it would be more interesting if they raced eachother, but when it came to the last wordsearch that they did, the competition truly heated up. Both had one word left that they were struggling to find (the word was 'geldautomat', if you were wondering). Master found it first on her word search, and then afterwards tried to find it on ANT's. At the end of they day, after trying every word search technique they could think of, they didn't find it. I think it's fair to say that it drained them of all their brain power and left them teary-eyed from staring at computer screens for so long (it was so intense it almost reminds of Squares). And the mystery remains unsolved!

Until next week, have a good one :)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 40

"...Smash!"
- S.R.

Story behind quote:
After Wicks' birthday gathering, ANT has made this a regular saying. I think this needs a video explanation:

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 39

Quest to Dustbin Corner...
Wicks: "Wait for me, I haven't got my Adventure Shoes on."
Master: "You have Adventure Shoes?"
Wicks: "You don't have Adventure Shoes?"
Master: "My Adventure Shoes are just my feet."
Wicks: "Fair play."
- H.W. J.C.

Story behind quote:
Well, I think it's pretty self-explanatory, but to sum it up: Wicks and Master's conversation about Adventure Shoes...

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 38

"You're like a trolley with a wonkey wheel..."
- H.W. A.A.

Story behind quote:
On the walk to PE on Tuesday, ArwaChihuahua and Wicks were pushing eachother along. When we reached our destination, Wicks remarked that it had felt like pushing around a trolley with a wonkey wheel ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 37

"Nein."
- C.P.

Story behind quote:
The answer to everything in a German exam (it applies even when it doesn't make any sense). Simples.

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 36

"Let me think about it, I've thought about it, yes!"
- J.C.

Story behind quote:
It seems that Master has been having quite a few of these fast-thinking moments recently...

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 35

"Monopoly annoys me because it's a juxtaposition of mono and poly."
- T.S.

Story behind quote:
You'd think that there are more important matters that could annoy you... ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 34

"Gets the job done."
- H.W.

Story behind quote:
In History, they were ConscienceSarah, DisneyLoverMolly, Ruby, Wicks and Master were doing a drama piece on Red Cloud's War. This is how Wicks summed up Master's action of pretending to kill someone...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hello!

Hope all you Irish men, women, children and gerbils have a good Paddy's Day today ;)

Weekly News Round-Up #22: 10/03/2013

This week has been one of the toughest I've had in a long time! I haven't been around for many lunchtimes this week, so we'll just have to make do with what we've got...

This week's PE lesson saw us realise just how funny it is for people to run on a treadmill on top speed with the highest possible gradient.

Afterwards, Wicks explained to us the plot of the film 'Looper'. It seems quite gun-heavy, but it also makes sense and has a good concept. What do you think?

It was a little empty on Tuesday as ArwaChihuahua and ANT were on an Art trip to the National Gallery. However, the following day, ArwaChihuahua brought in her National Gallery rubik cube. It appeared that no one could solve it, so ArwaChihuahua went for the cheat way: break it. She later regretted it as it was much harder to put back together. But thanks to Wicks, it was restored to its former glory. Happy ending.

Song of the Week (that ConscienceSarah knows all the words to): Harry Potter in 99 Seconds (and her sister never fails to gasp at the ending.)

On Thursday it was World Book Day, so the teachers had an excuse to come in fancy dress. A few characters that we saw included the Woman in Black, Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, Katniss, the Mad Hatter and a book (literally, he was dressed in a cardboard box, and was a book. No, he couldn't sit down very easily.)

Friday lunchtime was another of conflict between ArwaChihuahua and Wicks. It was this lunchtime where we actually understood how their hatred started. Apparently Wicks threw a yogurt pot at ArwaChihuahua, that she didn't realise it stll had yogurt in it, which splashed over ArwaChihuahua. Wicks apologised, but it has never been the same after that for ArwaChihuahua...

Also in the same lunchtime, Wicks, ANT and Master tried to recreate the Way of the Warrior, from the popular children's TV show 'Raven'. 'How did they do that?' I hear you ask. Well, they sat on the wall and punched and kicked at regular intervals. Fun times ;p

Until next week, have a good one :)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 33

"Alright then, wasp whisperer!"
- K.W. to H.W.

Story behind quote:
Ruby, Wicks, ANT and Master were at lunch. At one point, a wasp landed on Ruby's folder and, naturally, everyone backed away. They were debating what to do and eventually Ruby got a little annoyed, so she said to Wicks, "Alright then, wasp whisperer!" After 3 seconds, the wasp just casually flew away, leaving us all turning to Wicks in shock and amazement. And that is how Wicks earned the title: Wicks: Wasp Whisperer! (And that is truly alliteration at its best.)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 32

"We've got a 'two peg policy' going on here."
- H.W.

Story behind quote:
In their PE lesson, Wicks, Ruby and Master decided that, in the changing rooms, they should have a 'two peg policy', which is pretty self-explanatory. It's a shame that ArwaChihuahua didn't like the idea.

Red Nose Day!

Hey peeps!



If you didn't realise, today's Red Nose Day! What's been going on around you?
Make sure to join in with all the fun and raise loads for this great cause!

http://www.rednoseday.com/

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40 Quotes of Lent: Day 31

"It's like a bus back here!"
- S.A.

Story behind quote:
In their Monday morning History lesson, ConscienceSarah, DisneyLoverMolly and Master faced a little chair crisis. They sit on the back row, but somehow there were two sets of chairs that day, so ConscienceSarah decided to comment on it being like a bus (?) ;p

New background!

Hey peeps!

If you haven't noticed already, we've re-done the blog in hopes that the weather becomes much nicer and summer-y (well, that is all of us apart from ANT).

What do you think of the new background etc.? Comment your thoughts below!

Ruby's brand new blog!

Hey guys!

Just thought I'd alert you all to Ruby's new blog, which I am very excited for!
Here is the link: http://addictedtothewhistles.blogspot.co.uk/

Stay tuned for loads of exciting things that will be happening very soon :)

Happy Pi Day!

π

:)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 30

"It doesn't matter, they're gonna die anyway!"
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
For Mother's Day, ANT and her mother were out shopping for flowers. It got to the point that her mother took ages to decide, so this is what ANT said. For once, she apologised for it because it sounded harsh even to herself.

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 29

"ANT, likes dogs, hates kids."
- A.W.

Story behind quote:
On the way home, we see someone walking their dog. ANT expresses that she finds the dog cute. In response to this, Wadz sums up ANT in a few words. Later on, we realise that, to someone who has never met ANT, she sounds like a pretty awful person, but I can assure you that she's just wonderful ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 28

"You've wasted money, whilst you could've gotten a nice sparkly pencil instead."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
After ArwaChihuahua broke her National Gallery rubix cube, this is what ANT says ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 27

"I think it's fair to say that my Sylvanian families lived in abject poverty...they didn't even have a table!"
- H.W.

Story behind quote:
Looking back at her childhood, Wicks realises that Ruby's Sylvanian families (the popular collectables) lived in pretty poor conditions.

700th post!

Hey there!

Just thought I'd alert you all to the fact that this is the 700th post ever posted on this blog! Here's to more posts in the future :)

Thanks for reading! :D

Weekly News Round-Up #21: 03/03/2013

Well, hello there! Here we are for another installment of the Weekly News Round-Up. Our top stories this week...

After what seemed to be a rather exciting weekend that ANT had, she came in on Monday morning and expressed her smugness at beating her grandad at Scrabble, a feat that she had not managed before.

It has become apparent to us all that Simon Wicks is perhaps Brian Cox's biggest fan. Almost every item that she owns has his face on it. Wicks has it down to the last detail, that is the Brian Cox mouse mat.

On the way back home that day, Wadz and Master had a little debate about whether their Geography teacher looks more like Martin Freeman or Elijah Wood. You'll hear more about this on Day 26 of the 40 Days of Lent.

On Tuesday morning, Ruby, the Beckster, ANT and Master had to write 100 words on a particular law, which they chose to be that you must be 18 or over to get a tattoo. It was rather amusing to see ANT and Master trying to drag it out and put unnecessary words in to make it longer. In the end, they wrote 102 words :)

Tuesday's PE lesson saw us having an interesting little discussion: If you have 16 troops and they all had to have the same weapon, would you give them spears or cross-bows? Well, there's something to think about...

I think it is fair to say that, this week, Wadz has proved herself to be the biggest blagger of all time. She has managed to get herself out of a record number of Geography homeworks and even tried to educate ArwaChihuahua on the Art of Blagging at one point in the week. Trust me, she has a solution for every situation you could possibly be in if you haven't done your homework.

On Thursday, Ruby accidentally sliced her finger open with a sewing machine in Textiles. But please do not be too concerned as she is not in any immediate life-threatening danger, she came in on Friday with a bandaged finger. We hope your finger is better soon, Ruby :)

On Friday, Wicks had a brilliant story to tell us, it was described to be 'a beautiful moment': In Wicks' Drama class, their group was doing a certain piece and a senior of the school was meant to be accompanying them on the piano. One member of the group goes and plays the accompaniment for the 'I like the flowers' song. At this point, the senior looks over with the 'how dare you' look, and then just casually starts playing the melody. Whatta moment.

This week's main story has been largely controversial within the group. Our lunchtime hangout has a new contender, it seems our current wall is facing rivalry from a wall around the corner. This new wall is on a slight slope, the gradient practical, with trees and grass surrounding it. Wadz has been trying to sell it to us all, but it seems that Wicks, Ruby and ANT still prefer the old wall. Afterwards, ANT said, "I think it's right that we stick with the wall that we've been at for the last 4 years for the rest of our time this year." So, this week we shall have to see what happens...

Until next week, have a good one :)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 26

Wadz: "Martin."
Master: "Elijah."
Wadz: "Martin."
Master: "Elijah."
...
Wadz: "Freeman."
Master: "Wood."
...
- A.W. J.C.

Story behind quote:
Wadz and Master had a little discussion about whether their Geogrpahy teacher looks more like Martin Freeman or Elijah Wood. They didn't manage to reach a conclusion.

[Also mentioned in Weekly News Round-Up: 03/03/2013]

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 25

"Bold yet whimsical, easy on the eyes and the mind."
- A.W.

Story behind quote:
Wadz's brilliant comment on ANT's Graphics product.

[Also mentioned in Weekly News Round-Up: 24/02/2013]

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 24

"...I could have stolen Stefan...that would've ended everything!"
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
In German, the teacher has a stuffed bear called Stefan. Sometimes Stefan is used so that whoever has it has to answer a question. It happened that it was ANT's luck that she had Stefan, but the teacher went on to explain something, resulting in forgetting that ANT had Stefan. This meant that ANT kept hold of Stefan for a large part of the lesson. It happened that after the lesson when ANT was telling Master this, the thought of stealing Stefan crossed her mind (without Stefan it would reduce the chances of them being asked questions in German). Afterwards they went on to imagine what Miss would do if she lost Stefan ;p

[Also mentioned in Weekly News Round-Up: 24/02/2013]

Happy World Book Day!

Hope you all have a fantastic day! Who's dressing up?
Comment below your costumes :)

P.S. It's also a good opportunity to check out the Book Club ;)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 23

"American Test -> American Test West -> American West = Test."
- K.W.

Story behind quote:
Ruby's process of writing the title of the test in History.

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 22

Yesterday: "Today's Wednesday, so you're getting the paint..." - A.A.
Today: "...you mean today I'm getting out the paint, as usual." - A.T.

Story behind quote:
You've guessed it. ArwaChihuahua and ANT still haven't resolved the paint debate. This is what ArwaChihuahua said to ANT, then ANT's reply. Hilarious ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 21

"Today's Wednesday, so you're getting the paint out..."
- A.A.

Story behind quote:
Come back tomorrow for the second part of this quote... :)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 20

"...well, your birthday's in summer, so without it you wouldn't be born."
- J.C.

Story behind quote:
ANT often likes to express her dislike for summer (apparently she prefers being cold to hot). In reply to ANT, Master went on a little rant...

Report: Avengers Poll

Hello!

As you may or may not know, we have recently had a poll here that has posed the question: Who is your favourite Marvel Avenger? The results are in...

Black Widow: 10%*
Captain America: 0%*
Hawkeye: 0%*
Hulk: 30%*
Iron Man: 40%*
Thor: 20%*

*Results obtained from 10 votes.

So there we have it, Iron Man is our winner! Do you agree? Comment your thoughts below :)

Well, that was unexpected!

This has gotta be the best thing to find. It just happens that I look on the ol' Blogger Dashboard and this blog has some 10,000 views...10,000?!? That is absolutely crazy awesome! Gosh I can't believe this, I think I need a moment to calm down...

One moment later...
Thank you all so so so much for reading. I hope you have thoroughly enjoyed the stuff that's written here, because I sure love writing it! This is definitely without a doubt the biggest milestone that we have hit so far and I'm pleased beyond words...thank you!

Please comment below if you were the 10,000th viewer :)

Weekly News Round-Up #20: 24/02/2013

I think it has to be said that this week started with a little irony in the fact that, on Monday morning, we were being told that the Academy is really trying to knuckle down on lateness to Form. Just as this was being said, people in our Form were walking in late. Oh how we're gonna miss them in a few months time...

After our week off school, it's started getting serious this half term. For example, it was the Graphics coursework deadline this Tuesday. Indeed, it does sounds like an awful lot of work. As a matter of fact, ANT was showing us her product that she made. It was a book for children learning the alphabet. The pages all have a letter (obviously) which is accompanied by a picture of an animal (whose name begins with whatever letter) and to top it off there's also a few facts about the animal as a side dish.
First of all, Wadz thought it was an interesting idea that children who were learning letters should be able to read the facts, but ANT defended herself by saying that the child was meant to have the facts read to them by an adult.
Also, I think it's fair to say that some animals were a little more difficult to guess than others. For instance, there was a double page with 'n' and 'o' on either page. The picture for 'n' was an owl. Naturally, you'd think that there was some mistake (as owl starts with an 'o', which was on the following page), but ANT cleared it up by saying it was meant to be a night owl. Other examples were queen bee for 'q', yak for 'y' and x-ray fish for 'x'.

In PE, we had a rather lengthy discussion on super powers. Attempted give everyone powers, and Wicks also argued that magic should be allowed as a super power. What do you think?

After school, someone somehow made the mistake of bringing up geography and history. I'm sure you all know that it is not uncommon for ANT, ArwaChihuahua and Wadz to have an argument about subjects and which is more useful/important/etc. So, we have ANT on Team Geog. and ArwaChihuahua and Wadz on Team History. This heated debate rapidly escalated to a full-on verbal brawl, which only ended when they reached their houses. It should also be noted that ANT was trying to bring the whole RE vs. IT debate up again, but Master just wasn't gonna have it.

Wednesday morning brought us to a rather interesting and unexpected assembly on vinyl (yes, I'm talking about music records). Overall, it held a very important message, which I personally believe is so important it deserves to be put in bold. Here it is: Hold on to your passions. There you go, something to think about.
BTW, if you were asking, no there wasn't an Assembly Music Act. The chain has been broken (gosh, it sounds like we're on 'The Weakest Link'!).

Thursday lunchtime was an interesting one. We had a nice little discussion about survival, the question was: If you were on an island and you had to choose between eating a 'spud with mud' (a potato freshly dug out from the ground) or rose petals, what would you go for? This is assuming that you had no previous knowedge of what they both were and there was no other food. Hmmm, tricky one, eh?
On that lunchtime, we also encountered another problem. It has now officially gotten to the point that there are too many Griswalds. Yes, I know it sounds strange, since Griswald is not the most common name on the planet, but after Wicks' birthday film night, I think we've all become almost more Griswald-conscious, if you can call it that...?

During Friday breaktime, we witnessed something truly remarkable. Over the past week or so, a girl, from one of the lower years, has been deliberately trying to block Master's way, but when she came up to Master that break, this boy, who's probably in the same year, gives her a right telling-off. At that point, we just all turned to eachother and thought 'Whatta hero!' Props to that guy :) It should also be recoginised that he had rather interesting hair.

Later on in the day, Master, ANT and Ruby all had their interviews. I thought I'd share with you ANT's only piece of advice to Master: "You'll be fine, as long as they don't ask you 'what is the meaning of life?' and you have to leave your answer in surd form."

Speaking of ANT, it seems that her streak of luck in German lessons is still going. In Friday's lesson, the teacher asked her a question and then forgot that she hadn't finished answering it. More on this scenario on Day 24 of the 40 Quotes of Lent.

It may be said that ANT has been less pleased with the whole 'paint rota' in Art. I think it's almost gotten to the point that the most optimistic of the human race may declare this situation a hopeless case. Never mind, 'Can't win 'em all', as ANT would say.

Until next week, have a good one :)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 19

"It's so majestic..."
- A.T.

Story behind quote:
One of ANT's favourite words to describe things is 'majestic'. One time, when Wadz and ANT were walking home, they encountered a guy with a huge dog. As they walked past it, ANT said, "It's so majestic..." I think it was fair that they were both completely in awe of that dog ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 18

"If you miss out a bracket everything will go pear-shaped!"
- S.A.

Story behind quote:
Here we have one of ConscienceSarah's maths revision notes. Always remember this one, kids ;p

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 17

"I'm gonna have to ask you to step away from the mole please, VIP's only."
- H.W.

Story behind quote:
Wicks takes up the duty of being the VIP Mole's security guard.