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 Here are a few amazing facts for you The Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. There are more Lego minifigures than there are people on Earth. In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola. A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”. At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse. Iceland does not have a railway system. An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand. Costa Coffee employs Gennaro Pelliccia as a coffee taster, who has had his tongue insured for £10 million since 2009. Violin bows are commonly made from horse hair. There is an island called “Just Enough Room”, where there’s just enough room for a tree and a house. The human eye is so sensitive that, if the Earth were flat and it was a dark night, a candle’s flame could be seen from 30 miles away. The colour red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are colour-blind. Lettuce...

  Thank you to all those staff who kindly sent me their school age photos for our Guess the Beacon staff competition Can you guess all 16 ? If you do guess them all then you will find a surprise in your pigeon hole. Just email me at t.mann@thebeaconschool.co.uk with the number and who you think it is. Good luck Author:  Trace Mann

My son Joe has been growing Apache chillies from seed. He is also building a greenhouse at the bottom of our garden. Here is the monstrous plant on our kitchen windowsill, and a close up of a ripe chilli   A photo of the greenhouse will follow later Author:  Trace Mann

 In lockdown we did lots of work in our garden, and the one thing about our garden that we struggled with was the drainage problem.  If we had a heavy downpour, then the water would sit on top of the grass for days.  So the answer was artificial grass. The photos below are our before and after pics. I also painted the side door of the garage before the grass was laid This is how it looks at night.  We still need to get the soil put into the flower beds, but I'm really pleased with how it looks so far Author:  Trace Mann

 Welcome back everyone.  It's so good to be back and to be reunited. So here is our pet during lockdown rogues gallery Author:  Trace Mann

  Author:  Sam Gill