just another morning here

Said in a very Lola voice Joe is still maintaining that he doesn’t want to do a project but he’s really enjoying learning stuff!

Today was slightly less frantic, but not a lot! We started off getting violin, maths and music theory out of the way first thing, and then went for a trip into town. We had some leftover book tokens and vouchers for Christmas so decided to use those to facilitate our project – found some nice books in The Works and a cool looking space model kit as well, even though we are NOT doing a project on Space.

Went home via the garage where we picked up the trimmer and laminator to make these Solar System info/game cards, and trimming/laminating was a huge hit, as was the game that followed. The down side was that we also found out that we needed to cover the garage this afternoon so we’re now sitting here wasting time together (Joe on the Nasa Kids site and me blogging) while trying to hold the fort at work.

I wanted to get the compasses out to start drawing circles, as my friend Liz sent me a useful email last night, having just made a scale diagram of the solar system herself (details to follow when I actually manage to make it). Then realised I was scuppered as Josiah had removed the maths set from my bag just before we came out We amused ourselves reading the book we bought this morning instead, and then Joe did a solar system drawing which wasn’t exactly a work of art but did demonstrate that he’s already managed to learn the order of the planets and some of the important things about each one. He finished it off with a completely out of scale but still quite lovely picture of himself in a rainbow rocket exploring space, which we’re going to put on the front of our folder (not a project folder, obviously, as we’re NOT doing a project ).

We had to pop in to the office today to help out with a couple of errands … and ended up staying for lunch. Some people even did some work!

Look, it can happen! Steve *can* put plates on a car! He really wanted to leave them all for you but I said that would be taking the mickey

Not sure we’ll manage to get through taking photos as well but we’ll do our best!

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
grey: all other tags

I liked this, spotted on a friend’s photostream … and fun to watch the java applet creating the thingummy in the first place

There are lots on flickr, really interesting how different they all are, some of them are really pretty … And yes, work is interesting as ever

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