Friday, 6 February 2009

Accidental

Out last night with work at a remote pub. As we left it was snowing hard. It took 30 minutes to make the mile to the A38 (Helping to remove stranded cars in the lanes) and by all accounts it was lucky we came off it (it was a White-out), as a colleague made it home at 0530, having spent the night on Haldon. The A380 was also closed, but at sealevel, all was normal.
We had a funeral to go to today, in Esher, but it was postponed so we used the train tickets we had booked to go to London anyway.

We walked to the Science Museum, via the V&A
which was brighter and better than I had imagined (I had thought Victorian Furniture, but it isn't like that at all).
In the Science Museum we found Apollo 10, which went around the Moon but didn't stop.

These cars are in there. Great place, and much more friendly than I ever remembered it.
I am going to Venezuela in April, and may fly in one of these to see Angel Falls
(Children, that is a Douglas DC-3 Dakota, dating from the 1930s)
Later, M went off to have her hair done at some costly place in the Tottenham Court Road, while I walked back to Waterloo (and so did she, but I took the tube part way)

2 comments:

omally said...

Hoorah for the Science Museum! Not been there in years and was only saying to T the other night that we should visit.

M's do looks fab also :)

Scott Johnson said...

Lovely DC-3. Sad to see one with her wings clipped, though. I have done a lot of flying in those old, charming, creaky, oil-spewing beasts, and loved every minute of it.