More English things

English oak tree

Bluebell woods in April

Old English pub with hops hanging over bar (hops used to make beer)

Barge - people live on these river boats

Weetabix not Weetbix

Old Black and White houses - some can be 100's of years old.

Fields and fields of rape seed grown for oil

T- Rex

Don't be scared...

Roman Baths

We visited the Roman Baths in Bath where the Romans used to bathe.

Roman baths were like our sports centres. They were big buildings with swimming pools, changing rooms and toilets. They also had hot and cold rooms.  They built them on hot springs so the water could be hot.  The water wasn't green then as it is now as they would have had a roof over the baths to stop sunlight helping algae grow.

The baths were built around 67AD and the Romans kept adding more and more baths for four hundred years until the empire crumbled over 1000 years ago!


 GAME: http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/htmlContent/game.htm

Staying in Herefordshire

I stayed with my godmother Ness for 2 nights on their farm. They breed sheep, pheasants and have lots of springer spaniels and puppies.  They live in an 18th Century stone house (over 200 years old) which used to be a granary (where grain and animal feed was stored) We also stayed with my friends Hannah and Freya who have 2 horses and saw my friend Gigi for the day.

Last few days in Singapore

We flew back from the UK to Singapore. It took 13 hours and we were very jet lagged and when it was morning I thought it was night.  It was very hot so Scarlet and I swam in the pool at the apartment and played in a waterpark at the top of a shopping mall. I went to the local markets with Aunty Carmella a few times and Mum and I went to Bugis markets on a train to look around.

We didn't get to see all the sites - maybe next time!

I found out Singapore means Lion City but there are no lions apart from the mythical Merlion which is their mascot - head of a lion and body of a fish.  There is a statue of it in the city.