Name change

You may have noticed that my name has changed from Lisa Fellows to Pink Giraffe this is because I have started to use my YouTube side of this account and I wanted a more interesting name than just Lisa Fellows to comment and stuff even though I probably won't post videos. This is because my favourite colour is pink and I looooooooooooveeeeeeeeeeeee giraffes.

You know you're a gymnast when...

      Here are some of my you know you're a gymnast when.. Comment which is the most relatable.

• You always point your toes
• You're always the smallest 
• You use the curb as a beam
• You can't walk past an open space without doing a cartwheel 
• You always have to demonstrate for gym in PE
• You collect scrunchies
• You have tons of hair grips
• You're YouTube suggestions are always gymnastics
• You watch the boys  at school thinking they are showing off by doing really messy cartwheels and knowing you can do better but being to shy to (that's me!)
• At school you are shy but at the gym you are confident
• Only gymnasts understand how hard gym really is!  
• You have ugly hands from bars!

My 13th birthday

Recently I was 13 me and three friends went to flip out followed by pizza express. Our flip out session was supposed to be at five but we got stuck in a traffic jam so it ended up being at seven!

Me and my friends after flip out (from left). 

Me (Lisa), Alex Rae, Ellie and Jessica

Me and Ellie about to jump into the foam.

On the trampolines

At pizza express.

Flip out was amazing I thoroughly recommend it (although it was very tiring)

I especially liked the foam pits we don't have them at gym but I wish we did! 

Gymnastics Competitions

Recently I was in the Uckfield floor and vault competition where I placed 3rd on vault and 5th on floor. I am sorry I didn't post for that one but I have two more competitions coming up the Southbourne beam and vault and the Sussex 4 piece. I will try and post for these but no promises!

Just so you know I am 13 years old novice level and train 2 hours per week in recreational advanced at Southbourne Gymnastics club across all 4 pieces. I am an artistic gymnast.

Gymnastics!

GYMNASTICS STUFF! THIS IS A RANDOM POST!

This is me doing gymnastics on Poppit beach 2016. Oh and some random poppit pics. :) 

Pretty Sunsets

Sorry I haven't written for a while I've been quite busy. If you would like a full summary of our trips pictures and regular posts about what we get up to visit Danny's Blog

dannykarenlisajoe.blogspot.com

I am obsessed with pretty sunsets and take tons of pictures of them. These are all from are recent trip to Poppit Sands and I took them all myself (on my phone)

Here goes...

I know the 3rd one is not technically a sunset but I decided to include it as it is a pretty picture.

I prefer the bluey purple ones to the red, orange and yellow ones.

My absolute favourite is the last one what's your's?

Froome

On the way to our annual holiday to poppit we stopped in Froome where great granddads Samuel Fellow's name in on the war memorial!  

 Joe looking at the cheese in the market

Walking up the hill

The names were inside the memorial theatre and it was closed!

So we didn't get to see we took a picture through the glass 

Samuel Fellows name was on the war memorial

Zoomed in shot look for "Fellows. S."

Froome was quite a nice place

 

Toad in the hole

I made this with my mum for dinner. It's delicious! We left the bacon out because I don't like bacon. This is from the same book as chunky monkey cookies. "Children's Cookbook" by Sara Lewis. Serves approximately 2 adults and 2 children

  Ingredients

125 g (4 oz) plain flour
Salt and pepper
small bunch of fresh thyme
1 egg
300 ml (half a pint) milk and water mixed
400 g (1 lb) extra lean pork sausages
8 rashers smoky bacon (optional)
2 tablespoons sunflower oil

             How to make

1. Set oven to 220 centigrade/ 425 Fahrenheit/ gas mark 7
2. Put the flour salt and pepper into the bowl
3. Tear the leaves off the thyme stems
4. Add 2 tablespoons as well as the the egg
5. Gradually whisk in the milk and water until the batter is smooth and frothy
6. Separate the sausages with a small knife or scissors
7. If using stretch each rasher of bacon by running the flat of the knife along it 
8. If using wrap the bacon around the sausages
9. Pour the oil into the roasting tin and add the bacon wrapped (if using) sausages
10. Cook the sausages in the oven for 5 minutes, whisk the batter again
11.  Take the tin out of the oven and quickly pour in the batter 
12. Put back in the oven for about 20 minutes until the batter is golden and well risen

    Serving Suggestion: Serve hot with baked beans
  

Cheesy sauce

My cousins friend showed me how to do this when I went to her house, it's really simple and really nice. It works well with fish and as the sauce on top on lasagna but I'm sure you'll think of many other uses. Sorry I don't have the measurements as when we made this we weren't following a recipe.

Ingredients

Butter (the stuff you get in a packet don't use spreadable)
Flour (any type, one time we used brown self raising flour!)
Milk
Cheese (we used cheddar but you could experiment with different types)

Method

1. Grate the cheese
2. Put the pan on the hob at a low heat
3. Add a bit of butter it doesn't really matter how much (well it depends how much sauce you want)
4. Heat and stir until it has all melted don't let it boil, if it starts bubbling then take it off occasionally 
5. Add a bit of milk and stir, then add flour (it may look a bit brown when adding the flour but don't worry!) keep doing this until you feel you have enough sauce and it has a nice consistency (remember the cheese will also make it less runny)
6. Without taking it off the heat add the cheese which you should of already prepared
7. Stir well so the cheese mixes in (if it looks a bit runny don't worry!, it will soon harden don't add more flour, if it is a bit hard that's fine too but don't add anything else after the cheese)
8. Dip a spoon in and try a bit to check it's OK.
9. Enjoy!

Chichester Four Piece Gymnastics Competition

On the last day of the Easter holidays I went to a four piece gymnastics competition in Chichester
I won gold on bars and bronze on beam which is very weird since every competition I've been to that has beam or/and bars I've won bronze for beam and gold for bars. I've never won any other medals

Presenting!

Holding a tuck at the end of my bar routine (practice)

Video of my bar routine (real)

Video of my beam routine

Video of vault 1 (the better vault)

Vault 2 (this didn't go so well, I scraped the vault with my foot)

Video of my floor routine

My brother (Joe) eating cake

Southbourne Gymnastics Club!

I won the bronze medal for my beam routine

And gold for the bars... My friend Amelia (Southbourne won bronze)

All the girls from Southbourne

The leotards that most of the girls are wearing are the squad training leos the tops are different colours depending on the squad. I am wearing the general competition leotard.

How to make chunky monkey cookies

This is one of my favourite recipes in the children's cookbook by Sara Lewis. It makes 18 delicious cookies. You can change some ingredients like we change the glacé cherries to cranberries



      Ingredients

• 200g /7oz plain flour
• 1teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 125g / 4oz caster sugar
• 125g / 4oz butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 150g / 5oz White chocolate 
• 75g / 3oz glacé cherries (or cranberries)

     What to do

1. Set the oven to gas mark 4 180'c / 350'f
2. Put the flour, bicarbonate of soda and sugar into a bowl and mix together 
3. Cut the butter into small pieces and add to the bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips or use an electric mixer until it looks like fine crumbs 
4. Beat together the egg and milk in a cup or mug. Chop the chocolate and cherries (or cranberries) on a chopping board, then add all 4 ingredients to the bowl and mix together
5. Grease the baking sheets. Drop heaped dessertspoonfuls of cookie mixture well spaced apart, onto the baking sheets
6. Bake for 8 - 12 minutes until lightly browned. Leave for 2 minutes to harden, the transfer to a wire cooling rack
7. Ta da! You're done! Enjoy your delicious cookies!

     Remember 

   

     Don't melt the chocolate in it is supposed to have chocolate chips

How to make orange and berry explosion smoothies (don't worry they don't actually explode!)

Me and my friend Amelia created this recipe. We wanted to make smoothies but we didn't have the right ingredients so we decided to make up a recipe! It's a lot more fun! You can also make up a smoothie recipe, use a real recipe for guidance and swap the ingredients. Or... Just throw some fruits in a blender and see what happens!
   
     Ingredients

• 4oz (110g) (mixed) summer berries (we used frozen but you don't have to)
• 6 tablespoons of natural (or plain) yogurt
• 3 teaspoons of honey
• Orange juice

  How to make it

• Put all the ingredients except the orange juice into a blender and blend
• Take the lid off the blender and add some orange juice
• Blend for about 30 seconds take the lid off and add more orange juice repeat this process until it looks smooth (if it's smooth already you're done)
• Sieve to remove seeds 
• Enjoy a delicious smoothie

  Tip

 Sieving is very important or you will end up with loads of seeds

Recipes

I have decided that I will sometimes post recipes on my blog. Some I will have made up some will just be from a cookbook.                            

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