Category Archives: Finlay
My New RC Car
This is me with my new RC car in the park.
This is me jumping my car and using the slo-mo camera of the iPhone 6.
I love this car because its electric but fast and very good at jumps.
These videos are me having fun with my car.
Christmas at Granny’s 2014
Finlay’s best Christmas Present – his ebay Uni-Cycle
Christmas Art by Phoebe and Finlay
By Phoebe
By Finlay
THE GIRL THAT MET SANTA CLAUS …
As Big Ben struck midnight on Christmas night Santa went in the Jones’s house. A girl named Lilly was sleeping; the girl was only 8 and loved Christmas. She wanted a painting set for Christmas but didn’t mind.
As Santa went in the house he accidently tripped up and fell over and knocked the Christmas tree over and the noise woke Lilly up.
Lily crept downstairs and was amazed to see Santa lying on the floor in a mess and the Christmas tree ruined. She whispered in a shocked voice, “are you the real Santa?”.
“YES, YES, I am Santa. I was on the toilet and when I came out I knocked over your tree. Really sorry about what a mess you have made. First we need to put the tree back up”, said Lilly.
“Okay but why are there no decorations on the tree?”
“My dad does not belive in Santa and doesn’t want anything Christmassy in the house, wer’e lucky he let us have a Christmas at all and I keep of telling him Santa is real.”
“Alright, then”, said Santa. “Let’s see if we can magic up a nice tree for you with decorations and maybe then he’ll believe.”
Santa took some magic dust out of his pocket and sprinkled it over the tree. Out of nowhere, the tree rose from the floor and now it had fairy lights, red and gold baubles and a shimmering star.
“Oh wow” Lilly said quietly .
“Thank you!”. She turned round to face Santa.
“Now what happened to the sleigh,”.said Lilly.
Santa looked very upset and explained, “An evil elf broke it. He wants to ruin Christmas for everyone. “
“I don’t think it is fixable. Can I use your car? I’ll bring it back tomorrow…”
“I don’t know,” said Lilly, “ It’s my mum’s car and I don’t think it flies!”
“Don’t worry”, said Santa. “I have special dust that can make it fly.”
Lilly grasped Santa by the hand and then led led him outside to the family red pick up truck. On the lawn the reindeer were looking a bit glum standing alongside a very broken looking sleigh which was piled high with presents. “Oh dear never mind – look, we can put all the presents in the back of the truck.”
Santa smiled and then reached into his pocket. Slowly, he pulled out his hand and then opened it to reveal a handful of what could only be his magic dust….
To be continued
by Finlay, Phoebe and Mummy
Trip to the Snow Centre – Hemel Hempstead
When we arrived I was urging with excitement to get on the slopes. Once we had got our skis and boots on we went out to the slope. I Had put my poles on awkwardly and spent another long five minutes sorting them out. When we went up the first poma it felt really weird to be back on skis. You could hear the shout of two young men on snow boards going over big jumps. When I went down the slope for the first time it brought back a wave of memories.
On about the third run we had a go at the little ramp and I went over it fine but mum on the other hand tried to do a trick and crashed and then slid down half the slope! On the poma for about the tenth time, they stopped it because someone had fallen over. I was unfortunately inches from the top and it was some time before they got it started again.
When we had finished we went upstairs to get a hot chocolate, it was very good but a bit too strong!
Hemel Video
Finlay’s Juggling Video
Rubik’s Cube and Juggling
The 2×2 Rubik’s Cube and the 3×3 Dayan Cube.
The World Record for solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube is about 9 seconds one-handed and 5 seconds 2 handed. The world record for solving a 2×2 is 0.69 seconds.
Recently I have been trying to learn how to solve one.
This is me juggling. This all started when I had three golf balls and I started throwing them around. Two weeks later I could juggle very well and do several tricks. I’ve also started to juggling different objects like Rubik’s cubes.
I’m aiming to learn how to juggle more balls at once. The current world record for bean bags is held by British juggler Alex Barron. He’s a friend of the family of a friend of mine from school. His record is 13 beanbags for 15 catches and he also holds the world record for 11 balls and 25 catches. Watch his video here.
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