Self-Imposed Science.....

L10 wants to know if she can make some sort of edible slime, she doesn't know the recipe but she'd like to try to make one up, and then she wants to do an experiment with it. She wants to make it a colour that doesn't reflect the flavour it is, and see if people can guess correctly:


And she does a great job of it - H8 guesses it's peppermint, L5 guesses it's lime, I guess it's green apple and, because everyone's been wrong so far, A11 opts for smelling before tasting (with his eyes closed for both the smell and the taste test, so as not to confuse himself), and comes out the winner when he guesses coconut. The ingredients she used to make her slime were icing sugar, coconut essence, green food colouring and some milk.

Continuing the Science theme, A11 decides to go one better, and after some consultation with Kate's J12 shows us how to make a Raincloud. He is very scientific (read: lazy) in his choice of equipment, he gets the water bottles still left out from breakfast and precariously balances on them the breadboard still left out from breakfast, and then sets the jug to boiling underneath it:


It was collecting on the bottom of the breadboard (that which wasn't escaping over the top, lol! but I wasn't going to interfere) and 'raining' back in to the jug. He also figured out that the jug stopped boiling when the lid was on it, but not when the lid was off it - I explained how it was pretty much that exact same principle he had been expanding on himself, that makes that happen!:


We took a few photos to send to Nana, because I haven't wiped the reminder off my phone, so it keeps sending me messages near the end of the month to remind me to take one and send it to her. It seems like we haven't seen her for ages. A11 thought H8 looked a bit evil in the second photo, and I sorta hafta agree, really: