JON AND DAVE GET EDUCATIN'

We are back home after two jolly enjoyable days on the road. Dave B-P and I went off for a couple of days of Uncle/Nephew interaction in Staffordshire.

The actual reason for our trip was a two day science conference for primary school kids being held by Staffordshire Education Authority. I was to be the keynote speaker.

For some reason this made Emily T (who visited the CFZ in my absence yesterday) laugh massively, as if there was some reason that I shouldn't be a role model for young minds. Hmph.

I was very pleasantly surprised by my reception from the kids. There were about sixty of them, and they were all neat, tidy and very well behaved. They asked intelligent questions and seemed to get quite a lot from what I had to say.

If this is a representativce slice of the new generation, then most of the doom and gloom spouted by people of my generation is nothing but scaremongering rubbish.

Well done to everyone involved