<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452282" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Notes from my Diary</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunday 19 August 2012 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No Hope for Me </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sitting in the sun - sitting in the car, <br>nice and warm, my daughter's music <br>vibrating in my ears, here at the car-<br>wash, she's paying for the privilege <br>to drive the sturdy Suzuki</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I showed her my notebook covered <br>with lined paper in violet, purple, pink <br>and green, she ungraciously remarked <br>she was better at it, she had learnt at <br>school as I made a mess of Desifix</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She coolly informed me there was no <br>hope for me when she saw my purple <br>plastic bag which I carried to strengthen <br>my purple aura tapering off to violet <br>and soft pink - I dream…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Later the day - 15: 15</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Own Solar Version </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delighted I rediscovered the solar system <br>model in ‘Space, The Hands-On Approach <br>to Science' - which I had used to create my <br>own solar version on the sunroom floor using <br>string for the planet's orbits - a soccer ball was<br>the sun in the centre </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mercury's string orbit fluctuated a lot, Venus' <br>orbit fluctuated more, hard to form orbits on the <br>floor - Earth & Mars represented by coloured <br>balls, difficult to fill in Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, <br>Neptune and Pluto, orbits getting confused, <br>toys representing these planets </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus the kids could see a solar system in two <br>dimensions - I love this book, love the library <br>as custodian of all the wonderful books that <br>fill me with ideas - wild and wonderful…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452282" data-title="Notes from my Diary de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Sunday 19 August 2012 No Hope for Me Sitting in the sun - sitting in the car, nice and warm, my daughter's music vibrating in my ears, here at the car- wash, she's paying for the privilege to drive the sturdy Suzuki I showed her my noteboo..."></div> </div> </div>

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