it really is a different world.
On the way home tonight, we came down the A629 towards Sheffield. Big was thrilled to see the ‘windmill farm’. She wanted to know what was important about it – and we had a chat about electricity generation. I mentioned that some ppl don’t like wind farms. She couldn’t understand that – she thinks they are beautiful. It made me wonder how she looks at other things – we pass the cooling towers by the Tinsley Viaduct as well, and it turns out she likes those too. She wanted to know what they were, and other than knowing that they are cooling towers, I didn’t know a great deal. Something to look into perhaps. Tomorrow however, they are off to Eureka with Tim, something they are all really looking forward to.
And some other things I’ve had in draft. Think they probably don’t make all that much sense, but shoving them out there so I don’t forget them.
The other night, Tim decided to introduce Big to a new tool, the dictionary. This child is now beginning to remind me of myself – she reads anything and everything. From cereal boxs, to blogs over my shoulder, signposts, print on the tv, she’ll have a go. She’s still not overly into the idea of books, but I suspect it’s just a matter of time. A couple of days ago I did have to tell her to take her nose out of a book and listen to me, and boy did I internally rofl at that moment!
So, dictionaries. Tim gave her a very old one of mine – a collin’s gem from senior school. I gave her a quick run down on how to use it, and left her to it. Her vocabulary is expanding by the minute 😀
Small is having very on and off times with the toilet idea. He’s had a couple of days completely accident free, but he doesn’t seem to be able to have a one accident day, iyswim. Daresay we’ll get there in the end though 😉
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14 responses to “through children's eyes”
I’m with Big, wind tubines ARE beautiful! DD thinks so too. And they make a lovely swishy noise close up that’s almost hypnotic.
We like windfarms too, but we had a good cooling tower moment this week too. On clear days we can see from the top of the hill over to the big power stations like Ferrybridge, Drax and Eggborough. M thought they were castles, so I told her they were power stations, and she asked what that was, and I was starting to tell her (I knew, because I had recently read about it with C, but didn’t think much had stuck with C) then C took over and told her about electricity generation, remembering all the words – turbine, generator etc. It was a p.m.m. 😉
There are folks her who are opposed to them as well. One agrument some have against them is that they will contribute to global warming (because of heat generated by friction between air & blades). It’s difficult to imagine how anyone would not see that generation by fossil fuel would have to contribute more.
I’d love to see a wind farm.
I’m ambivalent about wind farms, I suspect that they are attractive in moderation, in numbers enough to make an impact then I suspect they would become intrusive. for a small island like the UK offshore is probably the way to go, even though it raises the cost somewhat
Actually, i like cooling towers as well, in an odd sort of way
WE like windfarms too.
Chris they look even more lovely as a group.
The big oil refinery near Ellesmere Port is lovely at night – it’s lit up like a Christmas tree. You can also more easily ignore the fact that it’s a town-sized industrial complex helping to do nasty things to the environment.
We had an interesting chat this morning over breakfast. J mentioned that we’re running out of energy (he watches Newsround). This led into a discussion of global warming, nuclear power (J told me how you use special rocks from the ground and it warms up water to make steam, which turns wind (sic) turbines to make electricity), a bit about fission and fusion and the Sun, nuclear waste and Chernobyl, nuclear bombs (who invented nuclear power daddy?), the fact that the UK has nuclear missiles, the difference between bombs and missiles and the nuclear medicine at the Addenbrookes Hospital open day.
I think the only bit we didn’t do was E=mc^2, although I did say that nuclear energy works by some of the bits you start with going missing at the end because they’ve been turned into energy.
This was mostly with J, but K chipped in too (will we get flooded, daddy?) and L helped with contributions like “here is mine tummy”.
yup – I’m with big on the wind farms too 🙂 Not quite so into the cooling towers though!
Big reminds me of when i was little and would sit reading the cereal packet whilst eating my breakfast. I love to read now, anything I can get my hands on usually, including cereal packets, lol!
BTW, we like wind farms and cooling towers too. Sorry to ramble earlier in your comments.
Don’t apologise for rambling Bob, I enjoyed it 🙂
Oh Bob I love those talks. We have them so often. Boo asked me something similar today, but now I go to type it I can’t remember LOL!
Yeah, more wind farm fans here 🙂 And we now have one proud/lonely turbine in our twon too, which is a good thing to see on the horizon. You can go right to the base of it, and it seemed very quiet.
Used to like cooling towers too (or calling towers as I thought of them for a long time), and sometimes in a good light Didcot power station can look almost attractive from the the A4074.