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Tag Archives: museum
Paradox Museum – 30/10/24
Welcome to Day #10 of the ever-lasting half term. Eva’s out there in the dark streets, covered in watermelon juice and begging for sweets from strangers. Standard stuff. But while it seems that we’ve given up on parenting today, I … Continue reading
Dreaming of Spires
Writing about our childfree jaunt to see “Stranger Things” reminded me that I haven’t yet blogged about our last childfree jaunt – a couple of rainy days in Oxford over half term. It was two weeks ago so I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Just wandering....
Tagged childfree, cinema, museum, outside London, swimming
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Accidentally Wes Anderson – 24/02/24
It was my birthday this week and, as a serial complainer about birthdays, I decided to organise a few things to try and make this one go well. But seeing as my birthdays have been serially bad, I didn’t want … Continue reading
Posted in Creating precious childhood memories or something (days out)
Tagged art, museum, photos, West London
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BBC Earth Experience – 08/08/23
Ever wondered what it would be like to visit the Planet Earth? Well, now you can find out but be warned – you have to go to West Brompton first and that’s as tricky to get to as Mercury. Which … Continue reading
“Science Fiction: to the Edge of Imagination” at the Science Museum – 29/05/23
I’m actually kinda reviewing not one but two exhibitions today. But I only physically went to one of them, which was the one in the title of this post – “Science Fiction: to the Edge of Imagination” . I mean, that’s … Continue reading
Twist Museum – 05/04/23
I realise I still haven’t told you what I did on Sunday night – and I will tell you because it’s not often that I do anything remotely hip – but I have something else to tell you about. The … Continue reading
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Tagged art, coffee, museum
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Roald Dahl Museum – 27/08/22
The Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden is somewhere I’ve been meaning to visit for ages but I’ve just never really had a reason to be in that part of the world. Well, the Hollies lived around there once but … Continue reading
Science Museum – 20/11/21
Ah Science Museum – it’s been a long time. With all the Covid-safe complications and just being dog-tired from getting back into the swing of life we’ve been mainly spending our Saturdays mooching around HP rather than going on grand … Continue reading
National Archives – 03/08/19
Shhhh…this is a very secret post. Although I’ve been told recently that I’m terrible at stealth, yesterday was my chance to acquire some spying skills. We were meeting my brother and his family at the National Archive in Kew and … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, museum, South London, spy, West London
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Diana Memorial Playground – 22/02/19
Ah, the curse of the working mother – having to fit the whole of half term into one day. That’s the way it worked out this term…the kids did three days of holiday club, one day of lazing around the … Continue reading