It has been interesting seeing all the fuss about the new film The Dig about the fantastic discovery of the  Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. I have read quite a bit about the discovery and we will take the chance to visit the site whenever we are in the Suffolk area, I always go to the Sutton Hoo collection when visiting the British Museum  even if I am there to  see a specific exhibition. The pictures below was from our last visit and there was re-enactment group running stalls on the site. I do play with the ship burial idea with some of my Story Telling although I transport my story  to Gloucestershire and our Saxon links. I  hope to see the film at some point hopefully it will come onto mainstream T.V.

This weekend is the annual RSPB census of garden birds   We have been doing it for over 20 years. The Blackcap obliged by appearing after being absent for a week! We also do a weekly count in our garden for the BTO.

In my last few years in school we would do the RSPB School Watch. I would meet the children at school early morning and send them out in pairs around the site. It generated a wealth of data over the years which I used with my maths groups. Even doing % increases and decreases! When we finished our watch we would have Breakfast together! Highlights over the years included a Tawny Owl, Siskin, Sparrowhawk and a Brambling. A member of staff one morning commented to me that she had overhead two young people debating with each other about one bird- “I’m sure its a Parrot!” ” No I don’t think so, have a look at this picture of a Chaffinch.” “That’s it a Parrot!”

Yesterday’s Quiz on Crime  (no quiz today it is Sunday)

a) Robert Peel is known as the Father of Policing   b) Dactyloscopy is Fingerprint Identification  c) Lyon is Interpol HQ  d) Great Train Robbery in 1963 took place at Bridego Bridge  e) Sweeney is the Cockney Rhyming Slang