My last week events.

Hello again.

Here is my last week activities what I did so far.

Wednesday me and the rest of the gang were visit the allotment where they kept chickens and geeses, and also they grow herbs, fruits and vegetables. It's been a busy time for the farmers, but it was so interesting how they do it.

Me and my friends doesn't mean we have to gardening work the allotment straight away and nor doing every week. Just doing the work when the weather is warmer (Spring/Summer) and whenever we're available.

Thursday I was at the Studio, it's been a time for everyone including myself. I've finished my painting a picture of Peppa Pig and her family to give second cousin and it didn't took longer than I expected. Only Two Weeks. Oh and here is some of my art work what I made so far last year was my name with art details and a model of my beloved penguin called Pingu. Noot Noot!














Meanwhile I also had some other jobs to do. We're created some Mousaic of Valentine hearts and making some decorations for the Valentine's day sale. Oh that will be lovely.

And Friday, after we did some drama sessions production of "Wizard of Oz"

 
at the TR2, we went out for a walk at Shaugh Prior cycling path where there was a platform and a tunnel where the railway used to run from Plym Valley to Yelverton all those years ago.

While we're in the dark, dark tunnel, I told my friends about one of the Thomas the Tank Engine stories "Henry and the Elephant". They loved that story and so here were two videos (different adaption versions) from youtube found between the original stories from the book; Troublesome Engines in 1950 narrated by Johnny Morris and the Fourth Television series in 1995 narrated by Michael Angelis. Enjoy!

Henry and the Elephant 1950 & Henry and the Elephant 1995

Oh! And by the way, do you know it's been 70 years since the first Railway Series book "The Three Railway Engines" had been published, written by the Rev. W. Awdry who told his son; Christopher who was ill in bed with measles about talking steam train including Edward, Gordon, Henry and Thomas the Tank Engine. Well, it was their 70th anniversary of their true friendship of the railway. Oh, what a wonderful man who wrote lots of stories about talking trains. And as for their anniversary treat, there's a trailer of the new feature length special will be released in early 2015 "The Adventure Begins" going back in time just before Toby and Henrietta came to Sodor, before Henry had his new shape, before Percy came when the big engines were on strike, before Thomas made new friends with Bertie and Terence, and before James was painted red and given Thomas a Branch Line as his reward. This is when how Thomas first came to Sodor and being painted blue with number 1. Enjoy!!!

Last week we got couple of trip outs from Wednesday and Friday.

 

Wednesday we all went out to the Marine Aquarium on the tour look at some different sorts of fishes around the aquarium. There were starfish, rays, seahorses, stingrays, sharks, octopus and even a turtle. It's a good and interesting tour, I wonder if there was a mermaid swam about.

Here's a video shows above about the these fishes in the aquarium that we visit.

Enjoy

 On Friday, me and everyone took part of driving lessons in Exeter.



I drove smoothly without any accident. Sometimes I made some mistakes for driving, but this one seems getting better. It's all going well until it was for the next driver. I was wondering if I could drive a Mini (Classic one) one day.

Last weeks events

Hello again!

May I tell you all folks about my last weeks times.

From Tuesday we went to the pantomime to see Jack and the Beanstalk. "Oh no it isn't" "Oh yes it is!" We had a lot a laughs how Super Simon has gone bonkers about. And how brave were Jack is to climbed the big giant beanstalk, rescued the princess and defeated the evil giant. How funny is to say a Password: KNICKERS! to get through the spider's web. And how awesome when we all wearing 3D glasses as they've come to life with spiders, bats, rats, and maggots from the moulded cheese.

Wednesday, we went to Exeter Museum in City Centre, we looked at all sorts of displays, paintings and everything if its look like in the past. Including some old posters during the WWII.

Thursday, we went to Exeter again, but this trip we went is the Cinema Museum of Bill Douglas. We looked all sorts of displays of released posters, magazines, comics and even merchandise all through out decades. And there's also if you flickers the pages of the animation book, you would see how to set up the animation.

And Friday, we started up the Animate at the TR2 to create the production "Wizard of Oz" Most of us wanted to take part of the Main characters; Dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion. Oh what a whole week has been.





And in the afternoon I was so lucky that I found two Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends picture badges (Thomas and Percy), this must be my lucky day.

My famous pictures

 These six pictures on this page are my paintings and pencil work from 2012 - 2013.

Belle and Cinderella

This picture (above) are two Disney princesses; Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella were in the garden, standing together by the heart tree at sunrise. I draw a picture of Belle and Cinderella for everyone to keep it all young at heart. It was all the ideas from my lover and her younger sister who loved their favourite fairy tale princesses.

This Picture (below) is Thomas and Bertie. This painting is about the time when Thomas the Tank Engine first met Bertie the Bus (in the episode: Thomas and Bertie) who thought they can go faster than each other and they had race. Thomas had won the race, he and Bertie had made great friends on his branchline. I sold one for my little second cousin, who loved Thomas the Tank Engine as much as I do.

Thomas and Bertie

 Thomas and Percy meet the two New Engines

This Painting (above) I had been creating was Thomas, Percy and the Fat Controller meet the engines puffing along line. The Blue Tank engine with No.21 and the Pink Tank Engine came to the Island of Sodor and greeted them. The new blue engine had also brought his own coach who often goes woof woof! Beacause he want to pretending to be like the new engine. I made the picture in the year 2012 as it was time for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.


On this picture (below) I painted the landscape of the Viaduct as the LNER Flying Scotsman with his two tenders puffs over the Viaduct with his LNER carriages. This is first picture I made at the Studio in 2013.

 Flying Scotsman puffing along the Viaduct

 
The last two pictures (above) are done by coloring pencel's. On the left were the guys went on the scariest roller coaster in Alton Towers. Luckily I never chosen to go out on that trip. And the other picture on the right was a fast food picture. There's a burger, chips, soda and an ice cream. Yum, yum, yum!!!

Wizardry video

This video is about two young wizardry students had been bullied in the wizardry class with magic wands, got told off by the head master, and being very naughty what they had done with their teacher. We had been created the stop flame animation of us, put some special effects and adding some sounds and musics. It took us a long time to work it out and finally we finished. Enjoy!

 This video is about our animation of my best childhood TV program since I was only 3 or 4 years old, which was Thomas the Tank Engine, we created our animation of Thomas, Percy and the Fat Controller to help to repair the Dawlish Coast line which has been washed over by a tragic storm early last year and we also added someone that most people don't like... but I mustn't tell you anymore or I'll spoil the short film.

My First Introduction

Good Morning to you all.

My name is Ffarquhar, and this is my first blog.

I do hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a New Year, and I had a good one too.

So, today's blog; is what I did over Christmas.

For Christmas I had, an N gauge train (Jinty) for my train set, books to read, new smelly toiletries and yummy chocolates. And I also planned for this year's 2015 planner starting with tomorrow, I'm going out with my mates and our support workers to a panto to see Jack and the Beanstalk.

Oh no, you're not!

On Wednesday, we're going to Exeter Museum, Thursday I will spend my day at the studio, possibly making some cards and gifts for Valentine's day next month. On Friday we're going back to Animate at the TR2 to do some drama.

Oh what a full of activity life has been! I really do enjoyed my good life activities.

My favorite kind of hobbies is I enjoyed arts, crafts, drama, jewelry, needle work, media, riding trains, riding boats, reading my favorite classic stories, listening some songs and musics from the 60's, 70's and 80's, spend all my time my friends and even lovely beautiful Margaret.

I'm sure will soon find out more what happening next week or so, Happy New Year to all.

Thanks.