A good question!

Last Friday M was feeling rather under the weather, not a good day to be needing to go out to get various jobs sorted, as it was pouring with rain all day.  Still we put on our wellies (well M and I did, K apparently didn't want to splash in the puddles) and off we went.  As we were walking along getting rather wet, M asked 'Why is the sea salty and rain isn't?'  So when we got home, we started off an experiment to answer the second half of the question.

First, we dissolved some salt in some water.

Then we left it on the window sill, just above a radiator

So that in just a couple of days we had this.

So we had evidence that when you have salty water, it is only the water evaporates and the salt is left behind, which is why rain isn't salty.  We've also talked about why the sea is, but will probably come back to this as so far we've only had A's theories on the matter.

In other news, M is reading the Faraway Tree books at the moment.  Today she showed her playmobil Saucepan Man!

And finally, I mentioned a couple of posts back that we have what turned out to be two rather large bones in our fridge, courtesy of one of the stalls at our local farmers' market.  While it was a good idea to have some bones to look at to back up what we've been looking at in theory, as it turns out in practice neither K nor M wanted to look closely in reality.  Still, our next door neighbours' dogs (one each side) have done well out of it!