Andy Burns
wibbled on Friday 30 July 2010 09:56

stuart noble wrote:

Was in the London Science Museum today with the sprogs.

Brave man. I bet you slept well last night.

I still remember the blisters I got on my hands from my first visit
there as a child ... frantically winding those Van de Graaff generators
and similar exhibits.

Sadly you can't zap yourself anymore

They do have some cool stuff like the washing machine that you can control
the inlet water, hand crank the drum and the emptying pump.

And the cut-away bog that works with a *very* realistic looking plastic turd


The computers section is a bit naff for kids - perfect opprotunity to press
hundreds of buttons and not actually much to do. And the enviro-********
zone is best avoided.

But the space section is very cool. Think they still have one of the Apollo
capsules but I didn't get to that bit this time.

Know what the PP means, legs fell off after that!

And we dropped into to the National Gallery for 10 minutes as it's next to
Charing X. Thanks to that recent Dr Who episode, the kids wanted to see
some. People were clearly amused by a 4 and 6 year old avidly inspecting
every painting in room 45 commenting that it "must be a van Gogh because of
the wibbly swirly colours"!

And the fact that the "Sunflowers" didn't actually have "for Amy" written on
it

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