Friday, September 28, 2007

Lion vs buffalo vs croc

Here's a very interesting video of the Kruger National Park in South Africa with Lions attacking a baby buffalo and a crocodile, lions have a tug of war with the buffalo and the crocodile, then buffalo herd attack the lions. You can see the rest here.



And here are a few pictures we took at the Kruger National Park two weeks ago.

Yawning cheetah:

Giraffe:

Baby giraffe:

Zebra crossing:

Mother and baby elephant:




And this is a video I took of a falling frog

Friday, September 7, 2007

Khoisan cave paintings

Today I want to put up some pictures my Dad took last weekend in the Cederberg which is in the Western Cape in South Africa. They are photos of cave paintings made by Khoisan people who were the first people who lived in the Western Cape before the white people came in 1652. The Khoisan are sometimes called Bushmen and their paints were made of ochre, animal blood, plants and some other things. These paintings are on a private reserve which not everybody can go to.

The first photo is of hunters and the painting could be between 3000 and 300 years old. The guide said that they can't do tests to find out.



The second painting is in the same cave and shows an antelope which the Khoisan were hunting.




This painting is from another cave and is of two elephants and many Khoisan, but they didn't hunt elephants. There were no elephants in the Cederberg but there were elephants in other places the Khoisan were before and so they painted what they saw there on the wall.



This painting is from the same cave and is of Afrikaners which means it is not that old.



Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Mr grandfather in World War II

Here are some pictures of my grandfather in World War 2. He was German and had to fight for his country, but he wasn't a Nazi because his father was dismissed from the police by the Nazis when he was a captain in 1933 because he was against the Nazis.

This is picture is from 1939 of my grandfather on the right and his cousin Johann who joined the SS and died in the war. My grandfather was 16 when this photo was taken.


This is a picture of my grandfather just after he was called up to the German army in 1942.



Here my grandfather is in training in 1942.



In 1943 he was awarded the Iron Cross for fighting in Leningrad. He was promoted to Lieutnant



This picture was taken during the Battle of Stalingrad. My grandfather was on one of the last German planes out of Stalingrad because he was wounded before the Russians won the battle.



This is a cemetery where dead Wehrmacht soldiers were buried.



My grandfather at home during a holiday in 1944.



My grandfather and some other soldiers drink beer in the field. My grandfather is on the right.



My grandfather on the horse he had when he was stationed in Denmark.


My grandfather and some officers in Denmark



The barracks in Metz where my grandfather was posted after Denmark. After the war he was a prisoner of war of the British before he could go home.



Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Utter nonsence

If you saw a sign like this
It's not true.
Harry Potter doesn't die

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Harry Potter 7 - My theory

This my theory for the ending of the last Harry Potter.

Harry finds all the Horcruxes and destroys them except the Slytherin Locket which Voldemort has. Now Harry and Voldemort are dueling and Voldemort is shooting curse at Harry but Harry blocks them. Voldemort then hits Harry with the Sectumsempra Curse and Buckbeak comes and knocks Voldemort to the ground and starts biting him. Voldemort then kills him. Hagrid comes in furious and loses control and punches Voldemort. Voldemort drops the Horcrux. Hermione heals Harry from the curse and Harry shoots the Horcrux with the Reducto Spell and Vordemort shoots the Avada Kedavra Curse and hits Harry’s scar and backfires. Voldemort then gets killed. Snape then shoots the Avada Kedavra Curse at Harry but bounces of the walls and hits Snape. Malfoy and the other Death Eaters defeated flee.

That's my theory.

Friday, June 8, 2007

Hary Potter

My favourite books of all is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I think this book is extremely great, because of all the loss of freinds, teachers (SPOILER WARNING) loss of Dumbledore and Harry setting out to destroy Voldemort.

Also I can’t wait for the new book to come out. I hope it’s going to be great.

LOTR 3


My all time favourite is Lord of the Rings Return of the King

The plot is: Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, Pippin, Theodon, Eomer, Eoyn and Gandalf. Must march to Minas Tirith to face the great battle of Minas Tirith. Frodo, Sam and Gollum (Smeagol) still set out to destroy the Ring, but Gollum has been corrupted by the Ring and try to kill them. So there is war, suspense, betrayal and EVIL.

So if I like this movie you definitely will.