a badger just trundled speedily across the road in front of us. They are hilarious when they run. What a delight to see a live one !
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another last supper. Laughed til we cried. Dear friends we’ll miss muchly. Now booked in for xmas 2010. Hoorah
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Sitting in a theatre cafe waiting for orchestra practice and violin lessons to finish. pepsi, kitkat, book and … Silence. Nice
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only 15 hours to go of my 40 hour backup to my ‘travelling’ hard drive. yawn.
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clutching a ‘certificate of destruction’
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are astronauts really taught to fly by tieing strings round their ears ?
or perhaps that’s only if they’ve been astro-naughty
monday night we went round to ruth and steve’s for another last supper. they are old family friends who knew both jane and i seperately even before we were going out (in fact ruth may have been partly responsible for us meeting as she ran the church music band where we met, and i think i remember a match-making lunch where she invited us both over …).
they are also one set of esther and kezia’s godparents, and Ruth is a proper northerner. we’ll miss them heaps.
straight to the point
in between the space centre and the sewer museum is this rather funky artist impression of what an alien space ship might look like. it was firmly on the sewer museum land though as i suspect the space centre wanted nothing to do with it. i thought it was excellent.
classic signs of our time
i love it when an official sign gets corrected.
my day in museums with my dad involved a lot of toilets. i actually
used the loo three times during our time together, but he didn’t go
once. we shows a younger man’s bladder can be weaker than an older
one. fact.
the top picture is from the sewer museum, and the one above is from the space museum. apparently they train people to use these toilets by videoing the activity so their technique can be honed. nice.
here are some loo facts
this was a nice money spinning idea for those who wanted to spend a pound rather than a penny
and here’s a lovely training potty
and various paraphenalia (worth a click to see what you can see)
i went to the national space centre with my dad yesterday for a last day out. that’s him in the picture above fiddling with some controls in a mock up version of the actual space station (i think).
i do know he’s not wearing the regulation space suite, but they seemed pretty relaxed about that at the museum
we then went and stood in front of a magical heat detecting camera and turned in to spooky sci-fi bods
here’s my dad by a rocket. he made me take a vertical picture as he was worried by my wonkly ones.
eventually he did put his space suite on.which pleased me no end.
after that we left the paid for museum and went to the free sewage museum next door which was even more fun. pictures of that to follow.
and on the way back home i popped in to see my grandma to say goodbyes too.
it was a day of strange mixed up emotions and memories, all taking place a very short distance from the hospital where i was born. once again, i was surprised by how much it affected me. I’ve now said my last goodbyes to my mum, dad, brother and grandma. gulp.
not long now until 11th October …
doesn’t it make you proud
self ageing sign. the rust eats away the pl of please as the gate itself ages and needs more love and attention when opened and closed. lovely.
‘beds and breakfasts’ would perhaps have been too ambiguous, which is probably why the name bed and breakfast stuck.
this sign clarifies it further with its ‘single only’ statement. you can stay there, but only one breakfast for you sir.
