MOSI

After getting myself into a bit of a state last night about the planned journey today, it all went off remarkably well. Three trains there, three trains back. No sprints across unknown stations losing small children, successful purchase of ff railcard along the way, and arrival at MOSI around noon as planned. Given that we met up with Kirsty and Barbara in one of the railway stations along the way, and Barbara had a map, the last part of the journey was remarkably unstressful 🙂

There were also Caroline, Jan and Anni on the trip, so by the time we’d all gathered together, that was an awful lot of children. I tried to get a group shot, but my camera doesn’t react that fast!

The group didn’t stay together very long at all, and we spent most of the day wandering past ppl or occasionally texting. Aprilia and Big rediscovered a definite fondness for each other so Anni and I got to catch up which was rather pleasant. We spent some time in Xperiment, had a very nice lunch in the loft restaurant and then headed somewhat unsuccessfully to the 1830 warehouse, accidentally spending the best part of an hour in the textile gallery instead 😆 Even Small was fascinated by many of the gadgets in there, and Duke spent loads of time with the girls looking at textile type machinery (I’ve no idea what, Anni and I were knitting and chatting in the main gallery 😉 )

We eventually made it to 1830, saw the recycling room, briefly some of our other friends before the girls shot off into the sewers and then Anni and I tried to find them and I ended up touring the sewers three times before meeting up with them back where we lost them. Hm. The difficulty being that mobile phones don’t work too well underground.

Back through the small collection and a brief interlude in the shop, before we started out three train journey home again. Trains at around 5pm are rather busier than those at 10 in the morning, but on the first train some kind late teens/ early twenties gave up their seats for the small swaying boy I was propping up, and on the second train we got seats at the next station. The third train arrived at its platform 20 minutes before departure, so we were first on and had our choice of seats, tables and indeed carriages.

Tim met us at Sainsburys and we brought home very shattered but happy children, who then proceeded to rather blot their copybooks by rubbing plasticine (or some such) into the textured wallpaper in the bedroom. Well, I’m noting Big as accessory during and after the fact – the light was on when it should have been off, and then she brought him downstairs to confess, definitely more to that one than meets the eye 🙁

Right, my battery’s gone low it’s bedtime. Will add anything else including possibly pictures tomorrow.