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Magic Milk 9 Nov 2012 | 02:30 am
Do you know how detergent works? If you vaguely remember your senior chemistry, you would know that it is a long molecule, one end is hydrophillic, or water loving, the other is hydrophobic, or water ...
Wordless Wednesday – the lizard 7 Nov 2012 | 02:30 am
Little girl was very excited to find a lizard and gently patted it with one finger. It was obviously not a well lizard, which added to the mice and chickens in our ongoing lesson about death being a p...
Wordless Wednesday – Crocodylus Park 10 Oct 2012 | 02:30 am
Apparently humans don’t play well with others, especially large predators that might eat our farm animals. One way to protect them is to give them a value to their local community, and one of the best...
Shadow puppets 5 Oct 2012 | 02:30 am
I‘ve had a soft spot for shadow puppets ever since the big girl was a baby and would get hysterical in the car at night. A little torch shining at her feet or the toys dangling over her and she would ...
Wordless Wednesday – Oasis 3 Oct 2012 | 02:30 am
There, amongst the sere brown grasses, a patch of green. Big girl spotted this strange phenomenon. I suspect those ferns under the large and luxurious bushes hold the answer, and diagnose a broken pi...
The Collection 28 Sep 2012 | 02:30 am
Our last place was a children’s paradise – an old hobby farm which had been owned by a collector and had two children growing up. It was absolutely covered in stuff. Garden ornaments, knick knacks, ma...
Wordless Wednesday – Levers 26 Sep 2012 | 02:30 am
I got a rare chance to play with my girls at the museum. Big girl’s explanation is that they must weigh different amounts, so she was testing it. She did explain why they went up to different heights...
Straw Rockets 21 Sep 2012 | 02:30 am
Remember these? I was inspired by Kate at Picklebums, but with our own twist. Because we’re not about the art, we’re about the science. So we didn’t make pretty rockets, we compared all sorts of diff...
The Witches 14 Sep 2012 | 02:30 am
I remember doing these as a kid and for some reason I thought they were very complicated, but they turned out to be really simple. Perhaps it’s just that my artistic standards have slipped, the girls ...
Wordless Wednesday – Sun Dial 12 Sep 2012 | 02:30 am
I adore it when things are as beautiful as they are functional. I took this picture with the iPhone that has also replaced my watch. But no matter what cover I put on it, it will never be as beautiful...
