The colour purple

Okay so when I came across purple carrots the other day it was a whole new concept to me that carrots can be anything other than orange! Genetic mutation mayhaps, well yes actually but it seems that the orange ones that are the mutants, as research suggests that either the purple or yellow ones seem to be the original stock but no doubt a combination of selective breeding and mutations have produced a rainbow of products, quite literally. The fun thing about the purple ones though is that the natural colouring turns your mouth...purple, evidence below. Taste wise it's still carrot-y, though there is a slight unusual extra something, which my tongue/stomach wasn't entirely sure what to make of it.

kinda gross i know :p

Actually the past week has kinda been full of revelations, the barbecue breakfast being another. We went to Kings park in the city centre, a developed green space with different areas designated within it, though the place we went to was the picnic area. Aside from the modern cafe, it was well landscaped with a children's play area situated on a artificial island in the middle of a pond, cool hey! Surrounding this was tidy grass space with built in barbecue units, to which we were headed. These barbecues are not griddled, they are flat topped, thus your bacon and eggs can be cooked together and enjoyed under the sun (well in the shade as it was one of those 40'C days), nom nom nom! 

Revelation the third was not on my part, but more so a breakthrough of a scientific nature using the combination of maltesers and minstrels. Intrigued? These chocolate delights were instrumental in teaching Ali the concept of atoms and ions. Unfortunately they weren't present in the physical form (they would be too expensive to buy) but I got across to her the idea of the charge change that occurs when electrons (minstrels) moved atoms and thus imbalanced the proton number (maltesers). Unorthodox teaching methods maybe but hey if there's one way to get someone to understand atomic science, chocolate seems to work!

I do realise that homeschooling still seems a bizarre and unfamiliar option for teaching children in the UK, but the more I am exposed to it the more I am seeing it as a perfectly acceptable education path. Sure, there is the stereotype that home schooled children are socially awkward creatures, but as I've come into contact with more and more people who are going/have gone through this system (it's more common here than in the UK) I have yet to come across such a person, helped by the home-school network no doubt. And regarding the opinion that they wouldn't be as clever as a schooled child, well it was such a 15 year old who first informed me that purple carrots were the original type, and that aside his 4 older siblings have or currently are going through university.

Reverting back to matters of the chocolate nature, you know those Easter bunnies you are seeing in shops, well here they also have Easter koalas, wombats and possums, far out!!!

To mention the weather, it seems to be generally cooling down (still at least 25'C minimum during the day) but I'm tentatively saying that because the temperature has been sporadically shooting back up to 40'C. I am venturing back into jogging now its possible to walk out of the door and not break into a sweat, and I'm rather liking running wearing sunnies (sunglasses), though I realise this 'look' would be weird if I took the habit back to the UK.

This weekend I'm going to be box happy!...helping Jon and Nina move house.
Nahadaan guys!

P.s: more info on the history of colourful carrots found below -
http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html