The church had an open air planned on Saturday for 10 AM in Stoke-upon-Trent. However, the council had planned a family fun event thing in the park up from us, so we thought we’d go there to meet some people. There was a cool exotic bird display (read: parrots), and I took some pictures, so I’ll get to showing those:

Barry Graeburn (sp?) had his 60th birthday celebration, so we all had a great craic looking at old photos and stuff. I didn’t get any pictures of this, because:

1. They wouldn’t have been very interesting
2. My batteries ran out taking parrot pictures, and I couldn’t find the charger

I left half way through, because I wanted to do some work, and Jonney was thinking alike. We decided to study at his house. However, this didn’t work out, because we were trying to fix up his wireless connection, but it was missing a connector. This always complicates things, and no amount of fiddling will create a connector, unless you happen to have an injection moulding machine handy… Which we don’t.

After wasting hours, I got taken back home, where I proceded in the same vein.

Eventually, I got some maths work done, but got completely stumped by some quadratic involving a farmer putting 220m of fencing around a 2500m² field, and me working out that field’s dimensions. Strikes me, it’s a clever farmer to work out how much fencing he needs without measuring the dimensions of his field. In real life, I would volunteer to measure his field myself, but this wasn’t an option, unfortunately. I’ve always liked a good walk. We really don’t have enough information anyway, because probably he has a bit of fencing left over.

I was still thinking about this problem in bed, which is the first time I’ve visualised the factorising of a quadratic function with my eyes closed. A momentous occasion, you might say. This is probably really easy, and Ally will reprimand me, but I didn’t do 3 hours of homework a night in high school, or a further maths A Level.