Ok, last week (20th - 24th June):

Monday was busy, busy, busy, attempting to get projects finished. We are concentrating on the Space project at the moment. We are taking one planet a day; finding out some facts and oddities; writing (well typing) up what we’ve found including a picture and adding it to a folder with any other interesting bits we can find. We are also going to try and do the activities that we got in the Stargazing leaflet from the BBC ages ago. We managed to make the juice carton rocket which is rather cool.

Tuesday was hall day in Borstal. It was nice to get out of the house and to see some people. We took along some old sciencey bits that we’ve either done or have doubles of to see if anyone wanted to take them, which people did. Came back with other stuff though which slightly defeated the object, but all good! Was lovely to see everyone, even though Callum wasn’t in the mood to run around so he just sat with me on his DS.

Wednesday was work again, but only after the Virgin Media guy came to fix our set box. He replaced it with a new one and replaced the computer modem with a new one too. Much to Callum’s delight it is a WiFi one, so he spent the next 1/2hr trying to connect his Ds to it – without much success to be honest. Will get Terri round and she can see if she can sort it out hopefully. But on a positive note, it does look as if the system is secure!

Thursday we carried on with our planets, as well as maths and literacy, and then met up with Jackie and Azeem. Off to Minster beach we went in glorious sunshine, however, within 5 mins of us setting ourselves up on the beach it poured hard. We continued to sit it out under coats, blankets and towels! Saw a wicked lightning bolt hit the sea on the horizon and shortly afterwards smoke and a fire (don’t think they were related as the strike wasn’t anywhere near the fire). The boys collected stones and some mussels, which I may attempt to eat tomorrow (they are currently being stored in salt water in my utility room sink – lovely, the mussels not the stones) and generally watched the waves. Came back and they played together on the Wii while Jackie went off and collected Hannah from her friends.

Friday we were off with Lorraine and Amy to delve into the depths of a deserted Secondary School. No, we were not breaking in; we’d been invited! It was very odd walking around such a large deserted building and only occasionally did we bump into other people. It was like a disaster movie where everything is just left lying about and discarded. Very eerie! Anyway, the kids loved it and collected as much as they could of their own interest and Lorraine and I picked up some bits and pieces that may come in handy later; the library taking the biggest hit. We’ll be able to swap them with others when finished with, so nothing will go to waste! Just wished we’d had a bigger car, hehe.

The weekend was hot and a bit more laid back. We did transplant Callum's pumpkin and sunflower plants though and are looking forward to them being able to grow a bit more, although I don't think the sunflowers will get that high as we've left it very late to transplant. Oh well.