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| Chocolate testing - apparently, females are more able to discern quality chocolate |
Making bath bombs
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| Surface tension - pushing a kebab stick through a balloon |
paper recycling - making new paper from old egg boxes
Giant bubble
And for the rest of this week, we have had a good break. Got back to swimming at Backwell, visited with friends at Noah's Ark and a lovely morning today at St Fagan's Castle, just outside Cardiff (an hour's drive from Bristol) It is an amazing open air museum, showing houses and welsh life from the past
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| Walls and moat and gardens around the castle |
Alexandra took this photo of the water fountain in the courtyard
The castle "house" - built 1580 - unfortunately, couldn't take pics inside
Maze gardens
Couldn't resist these trees, although I have no idea what they're about!
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| Resting in the summer house |
Mill house - this artist still uses water power for his looms, etc. He processes the wool from start to finish - sorting, combing, dyeing, spinning and weaving
400 year, timber barn - constructed flat on the ground, then erected at the end
Well, we thought this was a giant outdoor oven - but it is a traditional Welsh pigsty!
Corn mill - also water powered. People were either really short in those days (what with new generations taller each time) or their back really hurt bending to get through the doorways!
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| Inside a Celtic house |
You may have noticed the blue skies!! We have had beautiful, sunny warm (?at 16degC?) weather. Spring is really here:)
Squirrels squirreling
Trees blossoming
Flowers blooming
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| Sheep lambing Psalm 19:1 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Psalm 104:24 (New International Version, ©2011)24 How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. |
