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Britain's known oldest goldfishes Splish and Splash have been separated after 35 years because Splish has sadly passed away. He was found floating at the top of his tank dead last weekend. Splish and Slash were won in a fair in the year 1977 in Cheltenham by Richard and Ann Wright as a gift for there six and nine year old children which are now 40 years old. Hopefully Splash can hang in there for some more years so he can beat the world record which is 43 years.

My opinion is that I think it is amazing that a goldfish can live for more than 35 years and also I think it is sad that Splish has pasted away because he had been alive for so long and the family must of got really attached to their fish.

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The state on Florinda in a America is being swamped by giant snails. Over a 1000 of the giant snails have been caught over only a few weekes in the Miami-Dade county area. The snail is the size of a fully grow rat and in destroying buildings by eating thought the plasta of walls. Over 500 know plants have been eaten because of these snails.

My Option is that I think it is really grose that snail are growing up to the size of rats and I really hope they dont come to New Zealand.

Giving

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the
menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from
your guests.

First up for my entree I made Prawns with soy sauce or tomato sauce. This dish only takes a few minutes but you have to get it just right and make sure you dont over cook it. So I put the prawns into the saucepan also with a few drops of soy sauce so it had more flavor, then to finish it off I started my presentation which had the prawns on the side of the glass with either soy sauce or tomato sauce in side the glass. Something I could of worked on is making maybe a side salad to go with the prawns because it was to simple. Something that went right was the prawns cooked to perfection.

Feed Back:
Pete:
Rate  7/10
Comment:
I thought it was a great idea for an entree, it tasted good and was presented well. My only criticism would be that it could of had a few more prawns, maybe 6 rather than 4. It was also good that you could choose a sauce that you would like, I chose soy sauce, it complimented the prawns very well!

Umi:

Rate  7.5/10
Comment: Could of had more prawns.

Pimmy:

Rate  8/10
Comment: I liked how you could choose your own sauce.



Then I started on the main which was Quick Calazone. I choose this because when we did it at school I really enjoyed it and it tasted so good so I wanted to remake it. First I started to make the yeast grow by putting warm water, sugar, active yeast and oil. Then I put that in warm water and left it to grow while I started to mix the flour and cut up the vegetables to go inside my calazone. After that I put the yeast mixture with the flour to make my dough. Then I put all the stuff inside and folded it over and chucked it in the oven. Then I did the exact same thing to make another one. Something I could of done is kept it in the oven from longer. Something that went well was it fulled you up and the cheese inside melted nicely.

Feed Back:
Pete:

Rate 8 /10
Comment:
The main dish was simply the best part of the 3-course meal, it was full of flavour and was perfect. The only bad thing was that the bread was just slightly undercooked, but other than that there was nothing negative about it.

Umi:

Rate  8/10
Comment: The dough was to thick.

Pimmy:

Rate 8 /10
Comment: The dough was to thick.




For my final dish I presented vinilla cup cakes. I choose this because I just love to cook them, there my favorite sweet thing to cook. So first I just put all the ingredients into a bowl and out it into the cupcake trays. Then I took them out of the oven when they were ready and waited for them to cool so I could ice them. Something I could of down better was made the icing thicker so it didn't just drizzle off the cup cakes. Something I did well was it tasted nice but that just my opinion.

Feed Back:
Pete:


Rate 7/10
Comment:
I think it tasted nice but it could of been warmed up before it was served to me.

Umi:

Rate 7.5 /10
Comment:
It was good.

Pimmy:

Rate  8/10
Comment: I loved it.

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In December 2012 a nine year-old boy was found dead in his bed. His caregiver had over dosed him on  a drug called methadone. Police charged and arrested a 42 year old women that was looking after him for manslaughter of Antony Herewini-Christensen after a four month investigation.

My opinion is that it horrible that another child has died from being forced to take drugs. And I think that hundreds of children are also having to go through this and are going to die from a over dose of drugs that the parents are forcing them to do.

Giving

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the
menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from
your guests.

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On Monday April 15th I made a three corse meal.

First up for my entree I made a egg quiche in bread. I choose this because it is easy to make and you cant stuff it up. I started with buttering both sides of the wheatmeal bread. Next I tried to make the bread into a cup so it could fit in easy when I squashed it down into the cupcake tray. After this I cracked a egg in to the cup I made out of bread, then I put salt and pepper and grated lots of cheese on top. Something I found hard was squashing the bread into the cupcake tray. I pretty much failed on cracking the egg in to the cup I made out of the bread because the egg started to over flow out of it.
What went well was when I tock out the bread cup out of the tray because it normally sticks but luckily in my case it just popped out.

Feed Back:
Umi:
Rate:  8.5/10
Comment:
I thought the bread was a bit to thick and the egg didnt have enough flavor. I think it could of used more salt and pepper.

Pimmy:
Rate:  8 /10
Comment:
Could of used more flavor maybe salt would of fixed the missing flavor.

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Now I started on the main and I severed spaghetti cabanara. I choose this to because it is a meal I normally make and I have great confidence on this dish. First up I put the pasta to boil then I started on the sauce. The sauce contained egg yokes, cheese and milk. After I made the sauce I friend up some bacon. The pasta started to look ready so to cheak I used a trick I know, I thorogh a piece at the window and if it sticked it was ready.

It stuck so I knew it was ready. After I found out it stuck I put the pasta, egg yoke, cheese, milk and bacon it a frie pan. The sauce started to thicken like scrambled agg but in tiny tiny bits, which was what I was looking for. To finish off the dish I chopped up tomato, mushroom and basil then sprinkled it on top of the dish. Luckily today I didn't find anything hard because it was a dish that I am very used to cooking it. Something that went well was the finished dish my option is I think it tasted great and it was  what I was looking for so overall I am very happy with my dish.

Feed Back:

Umi:

Rate:   9/10

Comment: Pasta could of been a bit softer.

Pimmy:

Rate:  8.5 /10

Comment: Could of been a little bit more vegetables.

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For my finally dish of 4the night I severed peaches, ice-cream and sprinkles. This dish is extremely simple but the reason I choose it was because I used all my bowls and there was no room on the beach to make anything else. To make it it is pretty straight forward, all you do is put peaches in the bottom of the bowl and a dollop of ice-cream on top. Then I just sprinkled sprinkles on top. In the end it didnt look as bad as I thought it would be, so I was pretty happy with that. I was very suprised when I tasted it because I think the flavour of the chocolate ice-cream and peach actually worked.

Feed Back:

Umi:

Rate: 9 /10

Comment: It tasted good.

Pimmy:

Rate:  7 /10

Comment: The flavors weren't that right for me.

News Tauranga Intermediate Fire

On Sunday April the 14th there was a fire at Tauranga Intermediate School causing three classrooms to burn down. This happened at 5:15 when the thick smoke started to poor out of the building. The fire was believed to been started by a electrical fault. It started in the first classroom and spread into the second and third classrooms. The fireman luckily got there just in time before the fire spreader further.
The firefighter had to open the roof to reach apart of the fire inside the classroom that was unreachable from the outside. They put the fire out with a extremely large hose.

My option is that I think that it is horrible that the fire was at my school and that the students are going to have move into a different classroom. Also I think it is kinda lucky in a way that there classroom got burnt because that means they will probably get renovations to there classrooms.
One thing I still wonder is that what electrical system caused the fire.

Book Review Wheelchair Wally

Wheelchair Wally is a short story. By the time you have read this story will want to read more trust me. Wheelchair Wally is a short story in the book, Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls: Number 7. The Arthur Alexander Milne has done an amazing job with describing the characters and what is going on. Alexander Milne was also the writer of Winnie the pooh. So you can tell how amazing he is.

Wally is the coolest boy in school. He is great at everything EG: football, cricket, brilliant at video games, good with the girls, tough if he needed to be and the smartest kid in class. Then there was another kid ( unnamed) he wasn't so cool, he was always on the outside looking in.

One summers day Wally and his mates were at the pool. Wally decides to show off by taking his trousers off and doing a front somersault into the water. Wally didn't come up for a while, he had hit his head on the concrete floor of the swimming pool.

This story is a short story that makes you want to read more because it leaves you hanging at the end when it is a mystery. I really recommend this story for all ages because it is sad but also makes you giggle as you read it. So if you are up for a short comedy and drama type story just flick open the book Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls: Number 7 and you find a lot of pleasure reading through the pages.

By Milly Hillbrook

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National News-

A 3 month year old baby was found living in a house full of drugs with 17 other children. All the children from six different homes across Northland has been put in to child youth and family care because the police thinks it is unsafe with all the dangerous drug environment they were living in.

In Northland the police destroyed 48,546 thousand cannabis plants around the rural locations.

My opinion is I think it is horrible that people are growing drugs in New Zealand and that children are being born in to homes like this and are having to grow up with uses of drugs around them.

Academic Excellence

 12 x 12 times table gride under 3 minutes.