Being bit of a geek, and to follow on from our visit to the history Museum at the start of the year, LOG and I spent a day at the Science Museum. LOG wasn’t as excited about this museum though due to the lack of dinosaurs. I was.

After wandering round the museum for a couple of hours looking at the space stuff and rockets, cars and planes, playing the ‘In future’ games, and cringing at the medical history area, we stopped for some lunch feeling rather pleased with ourselves. Only to discover that we hadn’t even seen half of the place!

We visited the Who Am I? section, according to one of the games (cough they're aren't only for kids cough) I have a female brain. Good job really. I also discovered that there is a phobia of left-handed objects. Being a lefty myself I took offence, there aren't even that many things designed for lefties, and the things that are can be useless. I've never know a pair of sharp left-handed scissors.

We visited the Science and Art of Medicine floor. I rather wish that we hadn't as some of the instruments and 'tools' looked rather unfriendly and made my plams go sweaty. However, there was a funny, if not odd, portrait of a woman looking miserable titled 'A Portrait of the Mad', in the mental health area. Apparently it's one of the few portraits of mad people at the time...see odd and slightly funny because of the randomness...

Next came Launchpad, the hands on part of the museum, mainly designed for kids, but that didn't stop us! we spent an age in front of the heat sensitive camera, playing with the various masks they had, LOG built a bridge, we played with magnets, and I spents ages on a game that you could play various noises at different speeds to wathc the lines on a graph thing change, depending on the speed. As you can tell, I took no noice of the science side of it, I just found it hilarious making a cow moo at high speed!

Luckily, we managed to see everything before the end of the day and headed home with sore feet and a whole load of new science knowledge.....kind of....