Our Century

Time for times tables


Nicholas Parlett, Walsall
Born 1992

Nicholas Parlett


"I like the world because I like the plants and the creatures. I don't want to die when I am young because I will miss my friends and my family.

"I worry about dying because I might touch something poisonous.

"My first memory was when I went to Ireland on holiday. It was in a big house and there was a ladder at the back of the house.

"I always wanted to be a scientist because I want to invent things like a computer with a television on it and has a printer, a remote control to switch channels and to turn the computer off and on and to switch games, and a camera that takes pictures and remembers them forever.

"I've just went into junior school. I like doing Maths, especially because I like doing my times tables. And I like playtimes.

"I think a lot of people will be able to go on the millennium wheel and in the dome. In the next hundred years they might run out of computers.

"The most important thing on my mind is that Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married.

"I saw that on BBC Rewind. Princess Diana died while I was on holiday in Portugal.

"I saw people being taken away by the army on Newsround. I don't know which country.

"I will always care about my family when I'm alive, because I love my family. Everybody should love their family.

"I think one day the Sun will burn out, and it will be kind of midnight.

"I want to have a big house and a posh car when I'm older."