Car Boot success

This time I really have excelled myself. I popped off to the Car boot sale just across the road. I wasn't expecting much as it has been dreafully wet, and I should think that put a lot of people off.

I was right, and it was quiet, but I was still in the mood for a browse, Well, within 10 secs, I had found a Ladybird book for 25p and a Richard Scarry book which I had been casually looking for, for a while.

Then, I found a toy tape measure that we didn't get round to getting for Oscar, for 50p (sells for about a fiver) and THEN I found this HEEEYUGE box of happy land like train track, road and eurostar. It looked exactly like what I was looking for, for Jas's birthday. It said it fits in with ELC's happy land stuff, and included track and road, which I have found hard to find on Ebay. So I asked how much it was and she said two quid. TWO QUID. Oh.my.god. I was expecting her to say a tenner, and I would have easily paid a fiver. What.A.Bargain. (can you tell how excited I am??)

It is a "european express" set and has a tunnel, the eiffel tower and Big Ben, and train plays the national anthems of each country as it comes out of the tunnel. Hilarious.

Since it was so cheap, I consulted with Span on my return and we decided they could have the set now. We'll just get Jas a building to go with it, for her birthday. I set up the whole route, as per the instructions (yes, they were still there, as was all the boxes it came in!) and all the parts were there. The only things missing where a few signs and a few characters. Meh, you can get them anywhere. And the train still had batteries.

I think it would be around £30 new.

The photo has turned itself on upload. God knows why. But it gives you an idea of the size!

Lovely weekend

Its been lovely having my sister up to visit. We did a load of things, and I hope we haven't worn her out too much!

On Friday we went to Bodyworlds exhibition up at the Museum of Science and Industry. I thought it was very interesting although I felt there was a lot of information to take in at one time. In the blurb it said that you needed about an hour to go round, but all of us were done within 30 mins. I should have slowed down a bit to get my money's worth! I almost feel like I want to go again, as from talking to B, L and R afterwards, I missed lots. But at £11.50 a pop, I'm not sure.

The most interesting parts for me, was seeing a healthy organ, followed by an unhealthy sample. It really showed how illness can detereorate an organ. I suppose being dead people, these samples are going to have something wrong with them!

My highlights were the body cut in about 2-5cm wide sections, making the body look very elogated. Also the very thin cross sections, about 2mm thick were fascinating, especially from a future radiographer point of view.

I'm debating whether to get a book or even revisit the exhibition, as I don't think I did it justice.

After the museum, L, B and R and I went to Wagamamas and we had a lovely meal (if a little chillified for me!) and then Becca and I met up with Span and Stewart for wine. We had a great time and we are v grateful to Teddy, for babysitting.

The rest of the weekend was a little quieter as I have my big exam on Thursday (eeeeeek) but we did find time to pop over to a friend's BBQ on Saturday, and go to the local Car Boot Sale on Sunday. I didn't have as many successes as usual, but it was still great.

Now its back to the grindstone to try and work out what the Photoelectric Effect *really* means whilst attempting to remember how many quarks there are in a hadron, and remembering the transition energies of electrons...

Crap.