My little girl shoes

There's no denying I am very much a 'little girl' in lots of ways although my chronological age is a bit different . These shoes of mine tell you a lot starting with the T-bar which most little and even some older girls shoes always came with before the popularization of trainer and ballet pumps as well as the black colour which was only seconded by brown in most schools. They also come with a heel - a half inch heel - almost like a grown up shoe for a teen to wear at some function where she'd want to look a more mature or sophisticated  but still youngish.
The appeal is obvious.

Cosmetics

MAC Hello Kitty Makeup Collection hits stores February 12th and get ready to be wowed! Hello Kitty has been a fashion icon for 34 years. She transcends ages and generations. And now, Hello Kitty steps into the spotlight as the glamourous face of an exclusive makeup collection for MAC Cosmetics.

MAC Hello Kitty is a fashion-forward collection, inspired by the colors seen on the runway for spring. The packaging is bold, graphic and just plain fun! The collection includes everything a girl could want to transform herself into a fabulous feline-inspired beauty

The MAC Hello Kitty Makeup Collection includes:

LIPSTICK
Cute-Ster -sheer peachy pink with pearl
BIg Bow - sheer bright intense blue pink
Fresh Brew - creamed coffee
Suggested retail price $14.00 u.s./$16.50 cdn

LIPGLASS
Sweet Strawberry - sheer berry with blue pearl
Mimmy - light creamy pink with pink and gold pearl
Nice to be Nice - sheer bright intense orange with pearl
Suggested retail price $14.00 u.s./$16.50 cdn

TINTED LIP CONDITIONER
Popster - lively coral pink
Suggested retail price $14.50 u.s./$17.50 cdn

EYE SHADOW x 4: Lucky Tom
Stylin’ - midtone violet blue with multi-dimensional pearl
Lucky Tom - dark charcoal brown with gold pearl
Crème royale - yellow wheat gold
Paradisco - soft bright pinky-coral with golden shimmer
Suggested retail price $38.00 u.s./$46.00 cdn

GLITTER EYE LINER
Her glitz - blackened gold with multi-dimensional glitter
Glitterpuss - orangey bronze with multi-dimensional glitter
Kitty power - pink with multi-dimensional glitter
GIrl groove - clear/white teal reflects and multi-dimensional glitter
Suggested retail price $16.50 u.s./$20.00 cdn

PLUSH LASH
PlushBlack - black
Suggested retail price $12.00 u.s./$14.00 cdn

BEAUTY POWDER BLUSH
Fun & games - soft orange peach
Suggested retail price $18.00 u.s./$22.00 cdn

BEAUTY POWDER
Tahitian Sand - soft coral peach
Suggested retail price $22.00 u.s./$26.50 cdn

LASH
Hello Kitty half lash - with overlapping hairs to emphasize outer corner of eyes
Suggested retail price $12.00 u.s./$14.00 cdn

PIGMENT
Milk - frosty pale silvery pink
Deep Blue Green - rich, deep bluish green
Suggested retail price $19.50 u.s./$23.50 cdn

REFLECTS GLITTER
Reflects Blue - sparkling blue
Reflects Very Pink - sparkling fuchsia pink
Suggested retail price $19.50 u.s./$23.50 cdn

NAIL LACQUER
Something About Pink - blue pink fuchsia
On The Prowl - light creamy gray
Vestral White -creamy white
Suggested retail price $11.00 u.s./$13.00 cdn

MAC Hello Kitty Makeup Collection is available now at MAC counters, stores and online at www.maccosmetics.com. In addition to makeup, MAC's Hello Kitty Collection will include accessories.

Check out the new MAC video for a fantastical voyage with Hello Kitty:

YouTube - HELLO KITTY MEETS M·A·C

School science

At most of my schools we did science as 'Combined Science' that's to say physics, chemistry and biology as a single unified subject.
For instance we learnt about ohms law, series and parallel connections playing with battery DC cells, motors, lights and some pre-assembled modules.
For biology we used Microscopes to see very small particles from minerals, plants and small bugs.

That was fun and I had one at home with a set of slides.
We also dissected parts inluding very small mammals.
For physics we used bunsen burners to heat up various compounds taking care not to set fire to our desks or us as well being careful with gas .We also learned about energy and how a moving object can gain it.
We had to write up all our experiences properly with clear conclusions in our exercise books in neat handwriting.

Come here now, Miss!

As a child this kind of exultation was commonplace in schools and other places and almost instinctively you stiffened up and look right ahead the minute you heard that phrase.
In my school this was not uncommon.
For example I had and still have great difficult with math struggling to perform basic function but we we taught using the 'whole class' method so the work was set toward the mid to high ability end.
One day, I felt the whole pointlessness of trying to do long division when I couldn't get basic subtraction which part of the way you do it with pen and paper and just refused to do it telling Miss for good measure.
That's when I call the call to come to her desk whereupon she proceed to smack me in front of the whole class saying I was being disrespectful to her and the whole class. Whatever the merits of her argument were it didn't deal with the problem I was having.
Perhaps the most vivid memory I have of what was called school discipline back then was seeing a boy being dragged into a store room after being caught smoking and caned.

 Usually punishments were written up as a record as above.