Before getting on to the main subject I'll give you some quick updates on what I've been doing: well we did get to see the Harry Potter movie, though not on the friday because the sound wasn't working (which seems ironic when you think about what I said about cinema sound in my last entry) so we saw it on the monday (when all ticket prices are reduced). I hope I get to see Rush Hour 3 and I would like to see the Simpson Movie but I'm not quite sure how good it'll be. I've gone on some day trips with my family and most of the rest of the time Ive been helping up the allotment and continued to rest at home. Rather oddly we had some onions (from a allotment (fortunately not ours) or a garden) chucked at our window one night. Some other people noticed some onions in the streets and people running near our house at night. Luckily our window wasn't damaged. Very wierd though.

Anyhoo, the main subject: my 16^th birthday which was this Monday (the 6^th August). Did you know that my birthday was also Arnold Swarchenegger 60^th bithday, Bolivian and Jamican Independence Day, the anniverery of the invention of the sandwich as well as the (rather grim) anniversery of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing? That day I went walking in the Exmoor National Park with my family, which was good and we later had fish and chips (which we only have about once a year) for dinner at Lynmouth which was also good. For my birthday I recieved some money, a book of the Futurism art movement, a book on climbing and USB drive and I will be getting another which has been ordered but has not arrived. With my birthday I'll probably buy one of the new sets (either Hydraxon, Nocturn or Toa Mahri Hali) and/or some music (maybe King Crimson, ELO, Holst's Planet Suite, T Rex or the Kinks).

We are still hoping to go on holiday somewhere (camping probably) but my dad has loads of work to do and keeps on telling us the weather supposed to be getting worse (which he had said last week and of course the weather is still fine). My GCSE results come out on the 23rd, so I'm hoping for the best.

(Note to self: Use less bracketts.)

UPDATE: It looks like we will manage to go camping somewhere (either Pembrookshire (have I spelt that right?), Exmoor, Bodmin moor or another place in wales) but my dad will be staying at home to do work. Unfortunately the weather is supposed to be pretty bad.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: My final present was a nice book on Islamic art and architecture which I had previously seen in the V&A.