We finished The Science of Discworld this morning. It was a very thought provoking book, and it is certainly not the sort of science that I was taught in school! I was taught what they call 'lies-to-children' in the book. Why is it that people assume that just because a child is younger than an adult they can't understand the real world!
It was then off to swimming. Ram is more and more anxious every time we go. He thinks it is partly because we didn't go last week, but it is also because it was noisy in the changing rooms.
When we got into the pool area he needed to just sit on the sit for a while, and was making funny noises, just like the other disabled people that swim in this session, only none of them were there yet so he couldn't have been imitating them!
We finally got into the water and went into the routine. We always start out playing ball with the woggles, a game we call woll! We start gently and after a few minutes Ram is back to his old self.
After swimming we went to the shops. I had three things I needed to buy. I told Ram last night while we were getting ready for bed and asked him to help me remember them. He made up a story: Captain Hook was cleaning the boat while eating bread. Can you guess what it was we had to buy?
Some cup hooks for the new kitchen shelves, a dustpan (nice metal one that won't break!) and some yeast for the breadmaker!
Ram managed the little supermarket but only just. It was a good thing I only needed yeast there. He was ok in the ironmongers too, and seems much better now that we don't have to stop in the greengrocers anymore.
This afternoon he went back to The Sims. I think the main thing he is getting from this at the moment is reading practice. He has to read all the information about each item he buys and there are some difficult words in there.
This evening we watched The Beginner's Guide to the Cosmos, and had a good laugh at the VLT. At first I thought that they were BLT and thought it was a bacon, lettuce and tomato! But Ram informed me it stands for Very Large Telescope.
You would have thought that the BBC had arranged this series to run just now because we were reading The Science of Discworld! It is amazing how it has worked out. Or as Ram likes to say, it must be serendipity!
We started another book this evening. This one isn't a science of but it is a similar book. This one is The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter by David Colbert and not authorised by J.k. Rowling!
Instead of being about the science behind the book it is about the myths and magic. It looks like J.K. Rowling really did a lot of research. Some of it we are saying, 'Of course they were named after a Greek God!' and other bits are completely new!
I can see that this will lead onto some new things to learn about!
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