Cor, blimey! Where can I start? A lot has happened since my last post, since being rendered unable to blog most of that time for -reasons-... Anyway -  it must be said - my half term has been quite very epic, if you catch my drift. Here we go.


26th of this month I went to Drayton Manor with a lot of my family. Our admission was supposed to be covered by Tesco Clubcard vouchers and whatever, but the crisis was that we brought the wrong ones with us. Whoops. So then we were given a fatal decision. Cough up 121 quid and get in now, and use the vouchers some other time, or go back home, waste a bit of fuel - and time - and get the vouchers. Irrevocal.

Two hours we waited, nearly, outside the ticket office. I managed to take fifty photos just to resist ultimate boredom before my dad get back with the bit of paper. Soon enough he arrived and we were in. Yay.

Yes, the epic-ness died down inevitably, and in a relatively desolate corner of the park did we stumble upon a 4D cinema. 4D cinema?! Sure, it did give us some notice on the cover of the map they hand out, but I was still unsure how you can have four dimensions. Fower dimensions. Drenched in curiosity and uncertainty, we joined the queue. Within seconds we were admitted into the foyer.

In the little room we could see the preview, and what looked like an opening ceremony of the cinema. Celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Ricky Jervais, Mr T, and a few others were present (not in the room, what are you like?), and in turn greeted the Queen herself. Nice.

It didn't take us long before we could go in. We were given 4D glasses, that looked very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very different to its preceding invention, which didn't have coloured plastic filters, but just plastic. The film started.

It was very funny. A pirate ship of three charters a route but goes the wrong way. Typical. It finds some sunken shipwreck, et cetera and so on. (I wouldn't want to spoil it too much for those who haven't seen it!) But when, for example, I don't know, something is thrown towards you, it actually goes towards you and appears in front of your face. But what I've noticed is that it will not leave the screen. Sensible really.

But what's really cool is that when there's a water splash, you feel it. Yes, you get wet in the cinema! It is also a kind of 'smellovision'. Goes without saying - work it out for yourself.

The film lasted about half an hour, I'd say.


Today, 29th May, we went south to Oxford. The first thing I noticed when we got there was that there were so many bikes and buses you wouldn't believe it. There were a lot of people too, though it was still the early hours of the morning. It was very hot, but you would expect that in a populated city. We were with a cousin from America, staying in the UK for a while with her mum. We ate at McDonalds. Weren't they glad(?)

We walked through the city's shopping centre really quickly and didn't go in any shops. We walked through the city's market really fast and didn't visit any stalls.

We ventured around the University of Oxford, and visited the admission-free Oxford University Museum of Natural History. I've been to the London Natural History Museum (there's a blog post about this), and I say it was bigger and better than this one. What do you expect? You had to pay to get into that one. This one in Oxford is free.

You may or may not know that I have a cousin studying at the Uni of Oxford. My initial thoughts was that we were going to visit him. Not a chance. We didn't.


That's pretty much what happened this week. I also installed a game on my overclocker. Haha. All the settings on max, I'd best not brag.

Until next time, readers. Game over.

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