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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