Anyone got one of theose 'palaeontology' kits from Boots?

[UnquietDad]

And are they a pain in the arse or what?

DD and DS have been scraping and brushing away this morning trying to find "T Rex" bones and all we have to show for it is a pile of brick-dust.

There are aberrant apostrophes galore in the notes too.

I hate these kits. DS was given three, three for his irthday, and my kitchen was buried under a cloud of dust for ages.

Requires patience in spades, and at the end of it you have to assemble the damn thing!

Yep - you being the operative word, as even my ds's patience was wearing thin by that point

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Ours is strictly evolution-based... that one sounds, er, interesting, pruners!

We have about a quarter of it chipped away...

Oh, my nephews have those. My oldest, most egotistical nephew, was going on and on recently about how when he is a famous palaeontologist he is going to donate the bones to a museum and it will have a label with his name on and everyone will say 'What a kind palaeontologist!'

DS had one for Christmas - DH had to get a chisel in the end and whack it because DS got bored with trying to find the fossil!