WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES

Hello all again. Wow, two posts in two days, what's wrong with me - haha.

Just thought I'd post to say what a fab couple of days Callum has just had, as have I (apart from the minor hiccup of emotional crisis).

Yesterday a small group of us went to Dartford to see Horrible Science the show - thank you Lorraine for organising! It was brilliant fun and very entertaining for both the children and us adults. Lots of jokes, dance, songs, facts and audience participation. The afternoon that we went there was our group of 12, 1 school party (looked about yr 7/8) and about a dozen other mums and children (who we all thought looked like home educators too). It must have been very disappointing for the players, but was ideal for us and especially Callum as he doesn't like lots of people in one place. He laughed in all the right places (he has a very odd sense of humour, love him) and said a lot of the answers before they were told; he didn't shout them out, but I was pleased to see he'd retained info. He wasn't too keen on the second half as it was 3D and he doesn't like it (seems to give him headaches), but he did at least try it for a while; almost jumping out of his skin when a circular saw blade appeared to fly off the stage towards you. He, at least, did find it funny too, so we had a good giggle about it, but after that he decided to watch the rest without the glasses. On the journey home he didn't stop talking about it and I'm glad we bought the programme as there is things to do inside.

Today we attended the local groups annual 'show and tell' fair, this year's subject being Science! We gathered together our bits and pieces for our chosen subject of brains and set off to find this sweet little village hall in the middle of no-where! Luckily Phil had taken the day off (as requested) as there would have been no way we would have got there by public transport. On arrival we found a table and set out our things, then had a quick nose round to see what everyone else had done. In the afternoon some of the kids presented little pieces in front of us and at the end of the day there was a professional 'set' that showed the wonders of temperature using solid carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen. It was rather fascinating and although some of it went over Callum's head (he was getting rather tired by then) he did enjoy it, especially the bit where the guy asked us all to lift our feet and he shoved liquid nitrogen across the floor which, of course, 'steamed' up and rolled around like little balls until it evaporated. That bit wasn't the bit he really liked though. Someone had left their coat on the floor and the edge of it got caught by the nitrogen and started to freeze and 'steam'!!! Callum loved that bit!!!! Typical boy! We also all got a taste of ice-cream made by freezing in liquid nitrogen (I, for one, have always wanted to try it), so all in all it was a very good demonstration. It was a very long day though, 11am - 4pm!

In fact the whole day went well and was very interesting (for me, especially, as I could see how others show their work and I began to feel even better about what we do ourselves).

The only down side to the past couple of days has been that Callum has had so much input, had so much fun, probably a little too much sunshine and he ended up with a rotten headache that turned into what can only be described as a mini migraine. So in bed by 7.30pm, cold flannel, calpol and mum laying next to him until he fell asleep properly about 10pm. Bless him.