Science Week - Childhood Inventions…
Posted by admin on 14 Nov 2007 at 11:22 am | Tagged as: Science Week
So bloggers all over Ireland are going doolally over a science week competition to win a Wii (that yoke you see on the telly with Ian Wright and his son and other celebrities standing up with a white stick device in their hand).
I’ve decided I don’t want to win a Wii - the titles we’ve been asked to blog about aren’t to my liking…
Hence I bring you my most hated invention from my childhood.
It drove me fucking mental. I have dyspraxia - I couldn’t do drawing, lego, meccano, shapes, jigsaws, sewing, and make and do kits brought me to tears within seconds. But I did like machines - and of course I’m a gadget addict now…But being able to use a machine when I was a child…sigh…
Anyway the Simon machine was huge at the time - but when I got one I couldn’t keep up with it and always lost when I managed to get anyone to play with. Simon could go shove himself….And it ate batteries… Actually there is a title for science week posts - tell us all the things you did to keep batteries going for the various toys you had.
Simon could go shove himself hey thats unfair
[...] Suzy on Simon. [...]
For me its mechanical toys, particularly with voices. I loved Dr Who as a little kid (plus ca change.. also Pogle’s Wood, but I digress) So my Dad got me a battery powered Dalek when I was about three or four. It frightened the cac out of me so much that I booted it down the stairs at home, smashing it. Needless to say I’m often reminded of being a scaredy cat at inappropriate times. To this day I cannot stand wind-up doggie toys or such, but wonder if I’d have become gayer faster had there been a Capt Jack in the 1960’s episode (LOL)… this is way too confessional…
[...] Posted by suzybie on 16 Nov 2007 at 02:26 am | Tagged as: Social Media, Science Week Oh about one hour and 25 mintues too late for the Thursday competition but as I said I’m not in the competition. [...]