I hope your friend's chemo goes smoothly, but that's sweet of you to go and help her while she's having that done :)

Oven mitts and an apron are pretty useful things to make :D The candleholder sounds really creative though - I never used my hanging basket bracket, as I wasn't convinced it was strong enough to hold the weight! :P

Urgh, that kind of instruction book is always a nightmare! You'd think they would make it easier to follow, or at least have the instructions on that page rather than having to then go to a different page completely o.O Makes me think of those 'choose your adventure' books, where you pick what happens next by going to whichever page ;)

nods wiring a plug came in handy at work, seeing as I was on the lighting department, and there were about 50 connectors that needed wiring for the displays to be changed over! And yeah, I didn't understand how that was just expected of us to come in over the holidays.... one of the students had moved to the UK a few years ago, so potentially his family could've been planning on going back to their previous country to visit relatives in the holidays. I kind of knew how an oscilloscope worked, but I didn't really see how using that to show musical notes was actually going to make a complete project (once I knew what the note 'looked' like, what was I going to do with that information to make a proper project out of it?!)

Up until the "um" I was sure it was an AI voice.... after that point I really didn't know for certain, until it eventually said "I can't help you, so I will pass you on to a person" o.O

We did sewing for one term (I think I made a drawstring bag for my dance shoes laughs), plastic-work for a term (I made a little box that contained a soil tester probe so you could put it into your pot plants and see if they needed watering.... the box fell apart after a week laughs), and metal work for one term as well (pretty sure I made a hanging basket bracket.... wonder if I've still got that somewhere?!), but it seemed that whenever there was something I particularly enjoyed (like the sewing), we only got to do it for one term!

I can imagine that took a while to even get to the right page in the book? ;)

MDF is Medium Density Fibreboard - kind of a cheaper alternative to wood. At that point we didn't have to use masks or anything when it was being cut (I think it was seen as being safer than wood in a way), but now they would insist on everyone wearing a mask as it's not good to breath in the dust from it o.O

Elements of physics were quite fun, like wiring a plug (I had a rough idea of how to do that, as I'd watched my Grandad change a fuse in a plug a few times, and he was trying to teach me which lead is which), but when we had to pick our own project to work on over the summer holidays (literally we were expected to come into school over the holidays to work on it), I really felt out of my depth as I didn't know what I was going to pick (we were given a couple of ideas, but it was supposed to be something we'd chosen to work on / analyse). In the end my project was going to be how an Oscilloscope shows the frequency of musical notes o.O but I quit Physics before the summer holidays, so I didn't work on that project in the end ;)

Im so bored with subeta. I think its the main reason i keep forgetting to check in hear. Or i think i replied but i didnt. Hows it going? I have a pretty bad infection that sent me to the er yesterday. But the fast acting antibiotics they did seems to be having some effect. Yay.

nods and some of the AI voices on phonelines are ridiculously realistic - the one I got confused with even said "um" a few times!

hehe it makes less mess than flick painting too ;) (that's where you put paint on the brush, and flick the brush bristles with your fingers to ping the paint at the paper) ;) I don't remember much in the way of skipping at playtimes in school.... we had a climbing frame in infants school, but in juniors we tended to do hopscotch or 'bulldogs charge' (where everyone playing lines up on one side of the playground, and there's one person who is "it" in the middle. Everyone has to run to the other side of the playground without getting touched on the arm by the player who's "it". If you get touched on the arm, you join the one in the middle, so the last person to still be running from one side to the other is the winner ;) .... sounds more complicated than it is laughs)

I never worked out how those dewey numbers would work! That must have taken ages to learn all the different parts of that system? Wood workshop would've been awesome to do :D The only woodwork I did, was making a storage cube from MDF laughs I think they needed to make it clearer when we were picking subjects, what the lighter options were.... it's all very well just saying "go and choose however many subjects you want", but I ended up picking two heavyweight subjects (maths & physics) without realising it!

I'm amazed how many companies (and councils) think that AI is the perfect thing for answering customer enquiries! I can understand if you ring Apple for instance, they have an AI voice that claims to be able to "understand sentences", but at least they state it's AI when it answers the phone call. But for non-technology places (or just places that don't sell laptops / computers / mobile phones), I don't think AI is a sensible option ;) If I do phone somewhere, I always feel awkward when the 'person' sounds robotic, but I don't want to risk asking if it's AI or not :P

nods admin was definitely an improvement, even if it was so laid back in comparison to retail!

Bubble painting is where you have a jar of paint with a straw in it - you blow down the straw to create bubbles, then put a piece of paper over the jar to capture the effect ;) (only thing is they have to keep reminding the kids to blow down the straw!) Erm kind of skipping rope laughs I think in the US they call it 'jump rope' but it was always skipping rope here ;)

Especially when people wouldn't necessarily realise that you would have a degree to be a librarian ;) I hated having to make decisions on what subjects to take (when you're 14, you have to pick your subjects to take for the next two years, which then are your GCSE exam subjects - some are compulsory, like English Literature, Maths, Science and English Language, but you could choose for things like Art, Music, Drama, Geography, History, RE (Religious Education - that was more learning how to debate rather than religion), Food Technology or Design Technology)