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Sat 1st March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell on 01 March 2008
National Science and Engineering Week (7th – 14th march) is fast looming and I’m thinking maybe it’s time to get organised. With that in mind I hot foot it down town to buy materials for our forensic science day. Gazing at the sweetie shelves in Woolies my lonely brain cell can’t even begin to work out just how many jelly tots and strawberry laces I’ll need to make edible DNA chains for 85 kids. Toying with the idea of taking off my socks and shoes to aid the mathematical calculations I go for the ‘let’s empty the shelf option’.
The till operator is all smiles until I tip out the contents of my basket, then I can see her thinking ‘not a bit of wonder you could be Dawn French’s body double with all that sugar, you bloater’
Next stop Wilko’s to stock up on Magic Flyers (not an hallucinogenic advert but sherbet-filled liquorice tubes). By the time I got back to the car I had muscles like pop-eye and a face like bad fat because I didn’t have a free hand to go and try shoes on, gutted!
Saturday tea-time was spent hunched over the kitchen table, disposable gloves on and surrounded by a sea of various sized Tupperware boxes. The cutting up of the liquorice began, closely followed by the hawking out of the sherbet, 900 pieces later and enough fizz to fill pond 5 job’s a good ‘un.
(Note to self – next year think of an easier activity that at the very least involves sweets I actually like)
