Column 63

Leo, Roving Reporter

Report from: Bathurst

Story filed: Inventing, No 2

Hi people, it's Leo here. Hey, you know that Inventing Column I did a few weeks ago? Well here is Inventing No 2. Well it's not really inventing, it's talking about what I've built and what I have recently added. I moved to Bathurst in 2014 and a bit later I decided I wanted a chicken house because I had a doll's house and I wanted to build a whole neighbourhood like the one in a book that I saw, which inspired me. Over time I have added a ship and built a dock, I also built a windmill with Lego which I then put into the chicken house. I put in train tracks, cars, more Lego, click clacks and built things with wood. And now I am still adding more things I've built! I like to do this because 1. it's my hobby 2. I just love miniature things 3. Lego is cool 4. building things is my thing. And that's pretty much it.

Until next time

Leo Roving Reporter

Column 62

Leo, Roving Reporter

Report from: Canberra

Story filed: Secret doors

Hi people, it's Leo here. Today we are talking about secret doors. In the olden days, this door was a little door that you could open to put coal into the furnace to make electricity. It was not a glass works gallery then; but it is today. It used to be an electricity factory. I didn't know that at the start but I know that now because we looked it up on the internet. Out the back there is a cafe and outside the cafe there is a train track, but not a real one -  what it is trying to do, is represent a train track that used to be there - I just figured that out because the train track was just flat-out and a real train tran is sticking-out so it had to be a fake one. And the wood is all over the place, not like the real wood in train tracks, that are not so close, next to one another. It was all very interesting to see.

Until next time

Leo Roving Reporter

Column 61

Leo, Roving Reporter

Report from: Bathurst

Story filed: From my desk

Hi people, it's Leo here. Today I am talking about how I do my column. How I come up with my ideas for the column is that I think of things I like and write about it. I wrote a list of things that I like to do and then I did photos for them and this is my list of column ideas stuck on the the fridge. For the photos I had to get the right amount of sunlight (not too much) and the right amount of darkness in (not too much). When I first got the job for the column it was a bit hard to do them so I told my mum what to write. I talked and Mum wrote the words on the computer. Since then I have talked and I have written them in pencil and on my old typewriter. Over the past year I have done 60 columns. I also put my columns on my blog. The best thing about writing the column is that I get to make up stories and get to share my things with other people.

Until next time

Leo Roving Reporter

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Column 60

Leo, Roving Reporter

Report from: Bathurst

Story filed: Matchbox cars

Hi people, it's Leo here. Today we are talking about Matchbox cars - they're not cars made of match boxes, they're just cars the size of a matchbox. I got my cars from auction sales, two second-hand shops, birthdays presents, the old ladies shop and all other kinds of places. At my great Aunt's house, she has a bag of really cool old Matchbox cars (a wooden one and mostly metal ones) that I get to play with. I have a whole box of cars somewhere in the front office at home that are amazing. I like Matchbox cars because they are old, they are cool and you can get them all kinds of ways - you get the idea. I like to build roads for my cars and drive them around these roads. Recently Mum accidently ran over one car, one train and one tram which were parked on their roads in our gravel driveway.

Until next time

Leo Roving Reporter

Column 59

Leo, Roving Reporter

Report from: Bathurst

Story filed: Mining

Hi people, it's Leo here. I built a mine a couple of weeks ago. Not a real mine, a toy one. I built it in the driveway. I got a spade and I went 'Hmm', this is a good spot for a mine so I started digging. I put sticks up around to support the roof but it collapsed. I put some blue Lego train track down so that they could carry the trolley that had coal inside. On the trolley I also had bits of railway tracks so I could put them down when I've been digging further. It wasn't really a coal mine it was a gold mine. The soldiers were there to protect the gold from baddies.

Until next time

Leo Roving Reporter

Column 58

Leo, Roving Reporter

Report from: Bathurst

Story filed: Inventing

Hi people, it's Leo here. Do you like to build things? Do you like to make new kinds of things? I like inventing, I invent little things. I built a chicken house that has 13 rooms and two verandahs! This little space took weeks to build but that's not the story here. I have a little cellar that has all kinds of bits and bobs to build things, like: a windmill, ships, inventing rooms and just rooms. Sometimes I put up light bulbs and lamps and one day we will get battery operated lights too or I could build electrically operated lights but it is very likely that won't happen because I don't have the special wires.

Until next time

Leo Roving Reporter