As I mentioned in the last post we were at Tower Bridge close to Heather’s birthday (and mine), and so we’d actually made a weekend of it. We’d had dinner in a restaurant the night before and been in a hotel for that early bridge start. So we had the rest of Saturday and Sunday to enjoy, and had decided to take in some culture. Continue reading
Having been at the end of July, August saw us in the more familiar surrounds of another bit of coast, with some time in Hastings.
It’s not often that you get to walk through tunnels below the streets of London, especially ones which were never used as a passenger service. But Heather and I did just that below the hill of Mount Pleasant, on an evening visit to Mail Rail.
The removal of the Secret Life Of The Home gallery from The Science Museum saddens me. Continue reading
A trip to see some rather fancy clocks at the Science Museum Continue reading
Let’s go to Hastings for a short little break we thought. What a good idea! And then the bloody train strikes got announced, for the day we were supposed to be going and the day we were coming back. So a short break turned into a longer break by the Continue reading …
It’s been a long time and a different life since I last visited Norwich but Heather and I returned there (it had been even longer for her), mainly thanks to a game of “where are the trains actually running to” over Easter. Turns out there are way more churches than Continue reading …
We like museums, and we like Lego, so a couple of Saturdays ago Faith and Dylon were kind enough to take Heather and I to the Horniman Museum, to see some ancient Lego creations. Continue reading
Continuing our day out, with a tiny train ride and letters through history. Continue reading
A certain Gem was a guest over Christmas, and expressed a desire to visit an exhibition at the Science Museum. As she’s a maths student Heather and I agreed to go with her. The exhibition wasn’t all that, but at least it was the Science Museum. Continue reading