Out and about

Today was the long awaited opening of the newly refurbished and extended library.  We went to have a look and it's really rather impressive, particularly after the cramped, temporary quarters that has been its home for over a year while the works were going on.  It was extremely crowded, which was I think the main reason for M declaring that she prefered the temporary library to the new one.  She said is was too big, because you could lose your family in there.  We're planning on going back when it's quieter, probably on Monday, to have a better look.  While we were there though, we signed M up for a Faraway Tree workshop, which is taking place the weekend that K is going to be at Granny's.

This afternoon A to K & M to Brain Matters an event put on by the Neuroscience department of the University of Nottingham.  A's first impression was that it was more of an academic conference than an interactive event.  They told me about crawling inside the 'InflatiBrain', although A said it was rather difficult hearing what was being said inside for various reaons, the talk about what different parts of the brain do and A thought the girls got quite a lot out of that.  Then they looked at some brain cells in a petri dish, magnified on a screen and various other things (one of which I'm going to ask A to post about).  All three of them enjoyed it and K & M thought it fitted nicely with our on-going Body project and K & M came home with some goodies, including a workbook each which we'll have a look at together. 

Before all of this, both K & M did some writing this morning.  M wrote a letter to her best friend J, telling her about the additions and improvements she had made to a box modelling creation that they had made together previously.  I wasn't allowed to read it, but she read me parts of it and I was allowed to read the envelope which included the words 'top secret' several times!  K's writing looked like this:

It says: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened.  Enemies of the Heir beware!