The Magic Hamburger

A magical claymation:

Download the Magic Hamburger movie here.
QuickTime 7, iTunes 6 or VLC 0.84 will play the file.

Fun with Dry Ice

Andrew and Christopher demonstrate fun things to do with dry ice:

Download the Dry Ice movie here.
QuickTime 7, iTunes 6 or VLC 0.84 will play the file.

Bacon Bacon Bacon Movie

Andrew and Kevin made a movie while cooking breakfast:

Download Bacon movie here.
It's in homage to the badger movie

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mistake on mum's blog

Well as some of you may know my mum has started blogging. Anyway I read her blog and wrote a comment on it. I wrote "I can tell that you take good care of your children but since I am your child I live it". I made two mistakes and my mum got it rid of it on the site.


P.S. Maybe I should check my comments more carefully.


Written in Andrew Marks' own hand

Almost Dead Andrew

1. I almost break my rib cage
2. I almost break my wrist
3. I cut my foot badly
4. I faint from overdose of helium and almost broke my skull



MORAL: that which does not kill me makes me stronger (Dad told me that)

Donate to Rupert - the True Survivor

Mummy and I were so cross that the others threw Rupert off Survivor last week that we asked Daddy to set up a website for him. Here it is:
Donate to Rupert - the True Survivor
I drew the picture.

We made a t-shirt too.

Apple Camp

I went to Apple Camp with Christopher - here we are

Confusing the Barber

One day my dad went to the hairdressers. My brother went inside and got a lollipop from the barber. So, I went in in and the barber gave me a book.
Then my brother came in again.
The barber looked around, very surprised, and said "OH! There's two of them!"

20 questions

While driving in the car, we play a game called '20 questions'. One player thinks of something, and the others have 20 yes/no questions to guess what it is (20 bits of information is over 1 million separate entities). Typically, the first two questions asked are 'Is it alive or dead?' and, if the answer is 'Dead', the next question was 'Was it once alive?'

Andrew thought of something.
Christopher asked 'Is it alive or dead?'
'Alive'
'Was it once dead?'
'Yes'
'Is it Jesus?'
'Yes'

Christopher explains Santa

Christopher saw an advert where a little girl makes (brand name) cookies for Santa and she says "If we give him these cookies we'll get lots of presents."
"It doesn't work like that." he said. "It's whether you're good or bad."
"If you're bad and you make Santa lots of cookies, you won't get what you ask for, you'll get educational things."
He looked at me, then said:
"Educational things aren't bad though."

Back Garden Cricket

I've mentioned elsewhere that Andrew and Christopher are big fans of Humongous Entertainment's games. As a Kindergarten graduation present, Christopher got a triple-pack of Backyard Baseball, Backyard Soccer and Backyard Football.
They loved the games, but on the Mac they use, running OS 9, the games will freeze up every now and then, and they have to reboot. Andrew asked if he could use my white computer (iBook running OS X) to play it on, so I let him, and it worked fine. But I had to take the iBook with me to work.
When I got home Andrew was playing Backyard Baseball again.
'How did you stop it crashing, Andrew?'
'I ran it using Virtual PC'.

After this exchange I looked in the back garden, and saw by the stumps that they had been paying Cricket - sounds like a new product line for Humongous.

The bottle strikes again

You know back in The Deadly Squirt Bottle story I put a hole in a bottle. My mum thought that it didn't have a hole in. She poured some orange juice in it for Christopher and it all leaked out and she didn't see.
So then she looked at it and said "I thought I just filled that up".

The Parrot

A woman goes into a Pet shop and buys a parrot. She was lonely so she wanted a parrot.
She enjoyed its voice but then, without warning, it started screeching every horrid four letter word!
She called the Pet Shop owner and asked what to do.
The Pet Shop owner said "Put it in the freezer for 30 minutes, then let it out".
So she put it in the freezer for 30 minutes, and then let it out. She asked
"Are you going to screech any horrid four-letter words?"
The parrot said "No".
Then the parrot said "I have a question."
"Yes, what is the question?"
"What did the Chicken do?"

The Deadly Squirt Bottle

When I got home from school today I found a plastic bottle, a balloon and a nail.

I poked the nail into the bottle near the bottom to make a hole. Then I put a balloon inside the bottle and folded the end of the balloon over the top of the bottle.
Then I blew the balloon up inside the bottle, put my thumb over the nail hole, and filled the balloon up with water.

Then I handed it over to my dad, and as my thumb left the nail hole he got squirted with water



You can also do this with a screwtop bottle cap. If you put the cap on you can take your thumb away and you don't have to worry about it squirting you by mistake.

Christopher and the prank

When I got home from school I asked if I could have a funnel and a glass of water and a penny. Then I told Christopher how to play a game.
The rules are:
you stick a funnel in your trousers,
you balance a penny on your chin,
and try to make it drop into the funnel.

When he leaned back to put the penny on his chin I poured the glass of water down the funnel and it looked like he had wet himself.