I have many books filled with random information that I find frequently useful for furthering my useless knowledge and ideas about the World. (Note: before anyone points out that sentence may be contradictory, I am stating the knowledge is useless, but the act of knowing it is not. Glad I cleared that up.)
I spotted in […]
At school, my chemistry and physics courses claim to be related to real life and pretty practical. So far, I would say chemistry has succeeded. We have blown up various gases, liquids and random objects and have made some weird coloured liquids. This satisfies the two statutary requirements of chemistry: explosions/fire and coloured bubbling things. […]
School is still without heating, despite them saying it was fixed, and we still have to go there and just wear coats in lessons rather than have the luxury of central heating.
In other news, bank notes have been puzzling me lately. They still all contain the line “I promise to pay the bearer on demand […]
Today my school was closed becuase someone broke the heating and therefore it was too cold for us to be there! The first really practical use for health and safety legislation. This has led to me having an unexpected day off, which is nice. I have had time to follow Dan up on his idea […]
On Friday, a random collection of people (Joe, Dan, Luke, Freddie, Chris, Katie, Laura and myself) went to the annual quiz night at school. We all met at Tesco before the quiz, and amazingly the 3 of us who don’t live in Tring turned up on time. The others were at least 10 minutes late. […]