Science Festival

all the emotion of latinetc has left me feeling without reserves, and struggling a bit at work. this has had the usual knock on effect to the happiness/clinginess/shoutiness of the rest of the family Also, this week has had some v v long working days in it. i fell asleep on sofa after putting kids to bed on thurs! [tempted to do the same now ] and i did, so writing this another day!

SO friday was a bit of a laid back eve for me, chris and the girls had been to visit his parents – his dad is doing rather well. my parents returned from malta and we had a long phone call and then it was tomorrow or science day we like the science festival and gradually trying out different bits of it. this time i thought biology, chemistry and engineering sounded fun, so we headed in. We arranged to meet Ali and family in chemistry, but in one of those typical ways kept just missing each other until lunchtime. did manage to bump into weds helen 2ce tho as a bonus . we loved the chemistry, so spent the majority of our time there the whole thing seemed v well set up with lots of different bits and loved the goggles and lab coats most of the demonstrators were happy to spend quite a bit of time talking and answering questions, and it wasnt packed, so not long waiting i liked the spraying chemicals on a flame best but i think sb loves the cornflour whenever she gets a chance I also liked this year that bb was getting a lot from it, and actually remembering a lot from the latinetc. [both of them, actually so it has been worth it] . so we went in lots of their areas, and at 2 decided we were really really hungry and so then had lunch… and met up with Ali! hooray

After lunch, and meeting a couple of other local home educators [as you tend to at events like these ] we went into the scott polar museum. well, bb and i went in, as she was v keen to, and SB dressed up as an antarctic explorer outside and got v v warm. liked the scott polar, and bb was v taken by it. it can be hard to predict what will grab her fancy, but that def did.

We wandered back to biology, but bb was v definite she wanted to do the bridge thing outside zoology – which she did, and SB the spinning chair, and then there was only about 30mins before our chaos experiment session, so we went into zoology, sb discussed evolution and bb drew a ladybird and then we did our final experimenting. bb declared that she had done loads of those experiments before [which to be fair we have] but loved the lifecycles one. sb was attached to microscopes and the physics ones mostly.

At the end of the day, with hurty feet we waited over 30 mins for our bus [every 10 mins humph!!] and collapsed at home feeling job well done, and slightly scienced out [if that can be believed!] next year, i think we shoukd try and book earlier a few lectures, as think bb will be up for them by then.

have to add that the enormous moon was absolutely gorgeous on the way home, an enormous orange at horizon height. had my camera had any charge left i would have attempted a photo