6 days to go

Marley the spy

7 days to go

Refraction of light

8 days to go

Onion cell slides!!

9 days to go

I found a fossil on the way into work this morning.
Maybe it's going to get me through the next 8!

10 days to go

Great Coxwell tythe barn

Xmas tree

13 days to go

A spectroscope image of water changing state.
Jack frost patterns!

Finished ceramics

14 days to go...

... and today's science photo is the primary colours of light, taken at "we the curious".

Building the cosmos

Today Ray and I constructed the cosmos star map ready for star gazing tomorrow.
😂
She really put that degree in engineering to good use. It was a challenge!

Ray's Graduation

Crafty day

We had an awesome crafty day at Abi's!
We had planned to do xmas crafts, but i've been so crazy with work I hadn't had a chance to get any festive resources.
I decided to just take projects that needed finishing.

So, this should have made me super organized. But it did not.

Marley got us up at 5:20am (she hasn't quite got the hang of the clocks going back yet). We fed her, read the news in bed, got up at 8.

I still managed to be super late. Made worse by stopping at millets! (Xmas shopping! I'm almost done now!).

Abi and kirstie both made skirts. I felt silky because I could easily have done the same if i'd thought about it.
I fixed ray's coast skirt, as i'd promised to do that ages ago!
I finally finished my espadrilles and I changed the claw clasps on some broken necklaces.
So still productive!

16 days to go!

This morning's view of the sunrise over the football pitch as I arrived at work.
It's a view i'll miss!

The protest!

Telescopes

I have been enlisted to help with Yatton Keynell brownies and their star gazing badge.
The weather sucked so we will try again next week!
I downloaded an app (heavensabove) to help me to set the telescope, which is currently in the front room.
So much cool stuff we can't see for tge rain!!

Titration

17 days to go!!
We did our titration assessments yesterday. I had 5l of acid and 3l of alkali. We were not the first class to use the kit, and we don't have any huge containers, so all the liquids were provided in big conical flasks, some labelled. Some not.
The technicians assured me it was definitely all correct.
I had no reason to disbelieve them until 2 groups spent an hour trying to neutralize an alkali and another alkali.

I then tested the solutions. I could have just used a beaker, but I wanted to do one last titration.

The students laughed at me because I had to stand on tip toe to fill it.

Ceramics creations

I finally glazed all my pieces!
I didn't realize that I had made so much stuff!
The glazes are always a bit of a gamble because they change in the kiln.. we shall see how they look!

Westonbirt

Today we had a family day out! We went to westonbirt to see the colour change festival.
Last year we went on bonfire night weekend. It was insane and not many trees had changed yet.
This time I was braced for chaos but it was great! Way more colours, way fewer people but slightly more mud.
I'd go later in the season next year.

So, we walked around the woods.
Then we went to tetbury for scones. Afternoon tea and lindseys!
We also went to a craft fair- they had silver flatware made into jewellery. There was a bangle made from clawed sugar tongs.
I want it, but trying it on made me look like a self harmer.
They also had rings made from mustard spoons and cake forks! It was,awesome.

More shopping in tetbury.

Ray and I had another dim sum and ru paul evening.
😁