Downham Market Group - In the Library

We have been working with the staff in the Downham Market Library on the 6 book challenge, this is the web site.

http://sixbookchallenge.org.uk/

We have been working hard and we are writing a report and taking pictures to let everyone know what we have done. We will put this up soon so keep looking at our page to find out more.

Stop Smoking

We were thinking about smoking, some of us do smoke and so does David who works for us. We were talking to Isla and she had been doing some work with the Smoke Free Norfolk. Isla asked us if we would like to all meet up and talk about what stops people from wanting to give up cigarettes. We also met with Haley and Carl from Open Doors, they used to be People First and we knew them from a long time ago.

It was a good day and we looked at all the things the Smoke Free women, Moira and Kate brought. They had a cube with tar in it, a model of some lungs and they brought a gas tester for us all to breath in.

This tester measured the carbon monoxide in our breath. We had talked about carbon monoxide before when we talked to people about making sure our fires were serviced and we had enough ventilation in our houses. Carbon monoxide can kill you. All the people who smoke had very high readings so that made them think.

Since then David has stopped smoking and the others are giving it a go. It was a very good day and it was very nice meeting up with everyone.

Its not just cooking but keeping clean as well.

We have been doing a lot more cooking, we are all learning to look after our food and how to store things safely so we don’t get sick. We talked about all the things that can happen to you if you don’t use a fridge or if you put hot things in your freezer. We talked about how to keep things clean but not go too far.

Anti-bac is good but if you use it too much then you are just wasting money so we talked about what you can do with just soap and washing up liquid, we are all now cleaner and better off.

After all that we wanted to make cakes so here we are making our Madeleine, we made cake then rolled it in jam then coconut and left it to set. It was very nice.