Still getting the hang of this...

Wednesday 30th January

Sophie just jumped off the cat tree.

To set the scene we have Sophie on the top shelf of a floor to ceiling tree.  She is a stocky little tank of a girl and can't CLIMB down like the kittens.  After a few hair-raising vertical leaps (think nearly-splatted cat) she has developed a SYSTEM.  Vertically down from the top shelf onto the back of the green leather chair - bouncing off against the edge of the seat of said chair and from their onto the ground in front of leather stool. Slight slide on laminate floor but managing to stop before collision.  Sorted.

Now she's just used used this excellent technique with one difference - Jessie is sitting peaceably in the green chair.  Large tank of kitty misses her head by a WHISKER and breezes onto the floor.  Jessie looks up like a startled goose - what just happened??  She's looking at the top shelf with interest.  Did something just go past me?  Anybody see anything?? Was I dreaming??  I'm still amazed at the delicate agility of Sophie despite her rotund frame.  Oh, if only that applied to me as well.  Oh no, don't get started...

Here is Lara on top - Jessie still sitting in the chair.  Note the angle of descent and imagine a fat little body deftly skimming the top then the seat of the chair.  Jessie still looks bemused!  Lol!

Just watching Michael Mosley doing his high intensity exercise again - old Horizon programme.  All very nice but his contribution to being 'overweight' consists of a gentle convex curve around the belly area.  I wish... Ah, silly me, 'Africa' is on, much nicer.

Still blustery today, Jon out singing tonight with the 'mad German' and sounds quite breathless.  He can have a nice lie-in tomorrow when I get up for my 5:30 am start.  Ridiculous (and a symptom of the busy little corner of England we live in) that I have to leave the house so early to travel about 20 miles into London. Thank goodness for the automatic car.

Busy day today, three workshops all teaching the same thing with mini lecture on Psychometrics, reliability and validity followed by first testing session.  How to make a dry subject interesting?  Add a few pictures of cats :-)

Convergent Validity...

Discriminant Validity...




Three more tomorrow (one only by me, fortunately) and one of Friday then next week we move on to Statistics calculated by hand.  They will love it ;-)