It's a scorcher!!

It is hot hot hot today. It is about 30 degrees in the staffroom of the museum. I know this, because I brought in my thermometer from home to tell me. There is no health and safety law here that tells you the maximum temperature to work in. Someone should really do something about that!! There must be one in Australia. I know they send kids home at a certain point if it gets too hot. Anyway, thjey are calling it a heatwave here. I am really happy that I no longer commute on the tube. They have been measuring the temperatures on tubes and buses - 47 degrees on tubes, and 52 degrees on the buses. That was in the paper this morning. And the fact that there is European legislation stating that cattle cannot be transported anywhere if the temperature is greater than 27 degrees. Hello? Something is amiss here!!!

Apart from the heat, life is good. Scott and I , and Ayesha are going on a boat trip on Monday and Tuesday. We are going on a Thames Barge - see link below. I am really looking forward to it. Although I am hoping that it cools down a little, otherwise I will be passed out on the deck somewhere! It will be two days of sailing around in rivers and maybe harbours as well. It will be nice and relaxing. Scott has taken the whole week off, lucky bugger. I have Friday off before working the weekend, so we shall do something nice together then. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Sailing_Barge

This Friday I am being trained to run an archaeological workshop for kiddies at my work. I am a bit nervous about it. I will be paid £60 per time (per day, three sessions of the same workshop per day), which will make it better. I am looking forward to it, but I have never done this before. I am more confident with talking to large groups than I used to be, as at the museum I have to brief school groups and adult groups on the do's and don'ts of the museum. this will be different though. It is summer holidays over here as of next week, so there will be lots of stinky kids around!!

I have also been thinking about writing a book for kids on archaeology. I bought one a few years back at a conference and thought it was a good idea then. I would like to make it UK or even London based. I think the age group would have to be between 8 and 12, something like that. I have never written a kiddie book before, so I think it will be an interesting exercise. Not sure if it will ever get published, but fingers crossed! Well... I have to write it first!!