Bittersweet, these growing days.

This afternoon, in the car on the way back from the National Media Museum, both Tim and I clearly heard Small say “it looks like”. Neither of us registered what it was that looked like what, as it was the first time we’d heard that construction, for the longest time Small has said “it looklikes” instead. I had thought that various of his language quirks might fade as his reading improved, but I’m quite sad to have that proved.

Our visit to the museum was excellent. The museum itself is free, and on a Sunday so is the carpark. I was expecting the cafe to be overpriced nasty cheap food, iykwim, but the food turned out to be very good and not overly excessively priced for what it was. For example, Small had a sausage sandwich, two sausages in a bap, and it was £2.50, while I had the home made soup (always makes me wonder if that means someone arrives with a big pot they’ve cooked up in their kitchen before coming to work) which a chunk of bread and that was just over three pounds for a very good sized bowl. After we’d eaten we started to explore, and for once we really did take our time, and as there were very few other ppl there, we got to experience every area we wanted to. The children loved TV experience, where they can try out being newsreaders, operate proper big cameras, and fly on the magic carpet 🙂 Then we discovered the other side of that floor, with the original Playschool toys, as well as wombles, Gordon the gopher (no I’m not linking him, didn’t like him!) and Thunderbird puppets, to name but a few. In that area you can request private showings of TV series, so we asked for Morph and The Wombles and they were big hits with our small people 🙂

From TV experience to the Magic factory where there were levers to be pulled and pushed, lenses to be looked through so on and so forth. Last stop (before the shop anyway 😉 ) was the animation gallery where there is a Morph scene set up. Well impressed with the whole thing, so much better than the time I took a trip from school and the whole place was heaving.

Right, I took many pictures, so I’ll tootle off and see if I can find any bloggable ones to add.