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SO LONG JANUARY, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE SNOW!

Well that was January. Didn't it slide past quickly? And slide is probably the best work. Or skid. Or crunch. You know that really bad blizzard which clogged up the A3 and the A272 across from West Sussex into Hampshire? Well, I was at my first school of the year - the lovely Castlewood near Horsham - on that very day. My route home at 4pm? Well, I had a choice - the A3 or the A272. Turns out I was about 45 minutes ahead of the storm of the century.

I drove through swirling flakes so thick I had to keep my headlights dipped or it would have been a white out. I got through but the next day's news reports made me shiver. I came SO close to spending the night in my car on the A272. I now have an emergency kit in my boot, just in case...

Thanks to Adelaide and Jess for coming up with their own versions of my Top 10 Best Stuff From 2009 list - see below!

Adelaide's Best Stuff From 2009:

Best books I read: Inkdeath, Frozen in time, The Mists of Avalon

Favourite TV Programme: Merlin! (Keep the magic secret)

Favourite Character I made up: Percy Taylor (For NaNoWriMo09)

Best Book-Related moment: National Novel Writing Month

Best social decision I made: Hmm... cutting my hair short (it was at my waist and now it's above my ears!).

Weirdest Moment: Going to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert (which was weird in a very fabulous way.)

Most exciting news: I'm going to Pierrefonts in the summer! (Where they film Merlin.)

Most fun game I played: Tag in the snow with my cousins. I fell over a lot.

Most surreal moment: Staying up till 2 in the morning to finish my 50,000 word challenge!



Jess's Best Stuff of 2009:

Best Book Series: Shapeshifter or the Immortals series by Tamora Pierce - can't make up my mind.

Favourite TV Programme: Sarah-Jane adventures on CBBC.

Favourite Character I Made Up: Probably Bellazar, a scaly creature that can walk on two legs or four, has a thick muscly tail, brown spines, and a snake's diamond-shaped head.

Best Book-related Moment: When Miganium came in the post on my birthday.

Most Exciting News: I got shortlisted for a film making competition with my best friend. It's called Young Motion Plymouth and is for all young film makers in Plymouth area. We did a stop-motion film - or mixture of little bits - using play-doh, plasticine and a digital-blue camera. It was called Funny Movies and, although we didn't win our category, my friend's hand got five seconds of fame!

Most Fun Game I Played: Possibly Redsteel multiplayer, or Black and white, or Spore Galactic Adventures.


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