On 24/02/2015 19:48, Len Wood wrote:
As I intimated at the beginning of this thread, I prefer to hunker down and watch Cbeebies everytime.
In my defence, I do have grandchildren and have been invited into my 6 yr old grandson's class to talk to them about the weather.
Not a troll in sight. A very refreshing experience.

Funny people on this ng. Wot?

The joy of retirement Len!

I was once asked to talk about climate change to the WI (I was, at the
time, the education manager for the Wildlife Trusts). The WI was
everything I imagined it to be, kind (generally old and very sweet)
ladies and lots of homemade cakes and biscuits served with cups of tea.

Methinks I over-did the detail a little as some of the ones in the front
row started to get rather upset.

I also was asked to give a talk on climate change to Year 4 & 5
children. In the end I devised a series of experiments that the children
could conduct at their desks such as creating carbon dioxide and
extinguishing a candle with this invisible gas to capturing oxygen from
pond weed. The highlight (though not really anything to do with climate
change) was getting them to build a custard bomb and exploding it in the
playground.

They were good times and I hope/reckon they'll always remember that day.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk