Last night we were having dinner in the kitchen when the lights suddenly went off. It was very dark. We stumbled about. I fell over the dog and hurt my leg. Mum had torch. Dad used it to look for candles. He tripped over a chair and banged his elbow. He found candles on the […]
I like winter the most. One of the things I enjoy about winter is Christmas. I love getting presents and I love giving them. We always have delicious food on Christmas Day and we have crackers. I like winter because it sometimes snows. I like to see winter snowflakes falling to the ground. They look
It was my ninth birthday yesterday. There was a pile of cards and parcels on the breakfast table. They were mostly from members of my family. I knew that my friends would all bring their cards and presents in person to my birthday party in the afternoon. Both my paternal and maternal grandparents had sent
I had a dreadful nightmare last night. I woke up screaming. Mum came into my bedroom to comfort me. In my dream I was walking along a beach alone. I came across some caves and I went into one of them. It was a large cave and I kept on going into it. It got
I had a terrifying experience yesterday. Dad and I were standing in a queue at the bank. Suddenly, three man rushed in. they were waving guns. The men shouted on all of us to lie down on the floor. We all did what they said. I was so frightened! One of the men pointed gun
There was an accident just on the outskirts of the town yesterday. The driver of a car coming out of a side road did not stop. It did not even slow down. There was a car coming along the main road at the time. It crashed into the side of the other car. My parents
There was a fire in our street last night. It was in a furniture warehouse. The noise of the fire engines woke me up. We live in a block of flats on the opposite side of the street from the warehouse. Our block is quite a bit further down the street and so we are
I am so glad that today is over. So many things have gone wrong! For some I was very tired reason I did not sleep a wink last night. I was very tired when Mum called me this morning. I feel asleep again until Mum called me again. That snooze made me late. I did
I have several hobbies. I would like to have more time to spend on them, but I get a lot of homework. That takes up a lot of time. My favourite sport used to be swimming. I used to spend a lot of time at the pool at weekends. I learned to dive there. I
My dad took me to a football match yesterday afternoon. Our team Stepford United were playing against Whiteburn Rangers. The two teams are great rivals. Our supporters were at one side of the ground and the Whiteburn supporters were at the other. You could easily tell which supporters were which from the colour of their
Our teacher Mrs Sharma has a friend who runs an old-age home. He asked if some of her students would go and visit the old people after school. Some of them did not have any visitors and they got lonely. Riya, Tina, Piyush, John, Peter and I all volunteered to go. Mrs Sharma said that
Last Sunday our school organised the Annual Fete. There were a lot of different stalls at the fete. You could buy various things and take part in competitions. My Dad won a prize at the hoopla stall. There are a lot of objects on a hoopla stall. People throw large rings at the objects. If
I along with my mother went for shopping at the mall. There were a lot of cars in the car park. We had to park a long way from the entrance. It was pouring and we got very wet. The first trolley we chose would not go properly. There was something wrong with one of
Dad bought tickets for the circus as a surprise. My brother Sumit and I were thrilled when he told us. We had seen circuses on TV, but we had never been to a live one. The circus was held in a very large tent. We had seats near the front. We could see really well.
My mother took me to an art gallery in the city yesterday. She wanted to see the exhibition that was on there. The art gallery is a very grand building. There were lots of steps leading up to the main entrance. There were lots of steps leading up to the main entrance. There were two