ha ha i thought, how shall i make science invigorating, fun and accessible for all [is that being inclusive?]. I know, use sweeties!! but i get ahead of myself. we nearly didn’t make it, as BB had a complete wobble about going out. i am wondering if the family news has made her more wobbly, certainly SB has had uncharacteristic nightmares and sleep disturbance? anyway, wobble resolved and out we went. most of our journeys we are listening to salut serge in the car as both sb and bb like the catchy tunes, and bb joins in. i prob need a volume 2 for sb, but can’t see what that would be? the prob with salut serge is that most of the time at the mo i am singing these blasted catchy tunes!!!
the littlies group worked best, as it was simplified most. we made ‘mushrooms’ with proper filter paper and a wick, placed 3 different smudges of m and m colouring spaced around the centre, and then popped the wicks in the water. hey presto, it worked!! for the bigger group i had given them a proper testtube, filter maper instructions sheet, but their filter paper wasn’t so good, so the ‘affinity for paper’ was much greater than the ‘affinity for water’ but we had a good chat about what should happen, the technical words and the littlies results!! it was a bit difficult for me as bb was being v much attached by the umbilical cord! [a klingon as katy would say!], but as soon as i could give her attention, she skipped away merrily [grr] and did some beautiful sewing with merry, as did SB for their samplers. Also today was music and poetry with gina and latin and parachute games with katy. all v much enjoyed. BB did a clarinet session with gina, and is loving it and getting on nicely. must take clarinet next time we visit mum for a ‘masterclass’ – 
and today i got to have a good chat with the grown ups too – always nice! was really proud of SB when she sacrificed watching a film with the majority of children to go and keep the child who didn’t want to watch it company – though she said all she got to do was watch him ds, she knows a bit more about that game but i love the sensitivity she shew there. hugs for SB!
we returned in time to get sb to brownies – i drove her to the wrong venue, she skipped in, i drove off, and one of the owls had to take her to the right place 
and then took her back to judo! ah well, it will no doubt be put on my slate of parental misdeeds!! BB meanwhile was initially doing her k’nex dinosaurs she got for her birthday – she is really careful at joining these together, and v good at following the pattern – but refused to let me play :sob: nor was i allowed to play when she played with her doggies, making up stories for them about rabbitty babbity and turtle wurtle!! [v cute]
curry watching life in the freezer on SB’s return. i have still failed to sort out the personnel thingy crisis at work, coming at it from all angles tho!
Ooops about Brownie Venue – one of my utter paranoias and i have to see them in and see them into the care of a person. Generally think that makes me obsessive though! Ouch and hugs.
Science was great – thank you – and sorry i couldn’t persuade BB away but figured after a few gentle goes there was really not much point trying :/
the thing was, i could see brown and something else owl at the door and the shadow of ppl inside, but it was departing rainbows still!
Talking of clingy children, a couple of weeks ago I was doing a work presentation and had to take the children. Shannon absolutely refused to sit quietly and insisted on me picking her up, so I did pres with her on my hip, and it was being videoed!!!