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Anyone for Lego?
Orlando’s treasure box
Would you like me to paint your face?
Yes please!
London boat show 2014
We borrowed Barbie and Kens boat for a while, Matylda had her eye on this one.
Tom Cunliff gave an excellent presentation on his life afloat, over 40 years of global voyaging.
He even signed a copy of “Pilots and Cutters” ,his new book, for us.
Obviously we had to test the sleeping areas for comfort and practicality.
The supersize bean bags needed checking too.
The Peter Harrison Planetarium at greenwich
The planetatarim at greenwich was so good we went straight back in, after a quick snack stop, and experienced another show.
Without any special 3D glasses it felt as if the planets were coming straight for you, descending from above. We even physically recoiled in our seats in case we were crushed.
Before the show we browsed the market an ate some tasty treats.
The Peter Harrison Planetarium is a 120-seat digital laser planetarium, situated in Greenwich Park, London and is part of the National Maritime Museum. It opened on May 25, 2007.[1]
The planetarium uses Digistar 3 software with blue, red and green lasers and grating light valve (GLV) technology to create a 4,000 pixel strip. This strip is swept to produce a 5,000 by 4,000 pixel image, refreshed 60 times per second. The image is projected through a fisheye lens onto the dome of the planetarium.[2]
The planetarium is housed inside a 45-ton bronze-clad truncated cone, tilted at 51.5o to the horizontal (the latitude of Greenwich), and stands parallel to (but 50 metres east of) the prime meridian.[3] It was conceived under the then Director, Roy Clare CBE, as the centrepiece of the “Time and Space” project, a £17.7m re-development of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and funded with a £3.25m grant from the Peter Harrison Foundation.
Matyldas 8th Birthday, new bikes, and a trip to the Ambassador theatre to see Stomp!
We watched and listened, mesmorised by the rythms created out of simple everyday things, lighters, newspapers and broomsticks, dustbin lids, oil cans, shopping trolleys, sand and more. We clapped along, and were thoroughly entertained throughout the show.
Afterwards we beat out our own rhythms with wooden spoons before going to the party.
With Matylda and Orlando astride their new steeds, (a brace of lightweight Isla bikes) we explored the local city farm where a blacksmith was teaching some locals how to scroll a piece of iron on an anvil. Its a fully functioning farm situated next to Surrey Quays in the heart of the city. Cows and pigs are raised and sold for meat, crops are grown and geese are kept for eggs.
Happy Birthday Matylda! Baked especially for you.
Check out the shades! At Jandia marina, fuerteventura.
Mando, living and growing..... 