Life, Love & Literature

Jack is on a 3 day magic and cir­cus skills work­shop in Gosport and is lov­ing it.  While he was there on Tues­day Sam and I went to the Sub­ma­rine Museum.

The walk to the museum takes us through one of the many local mari­nas (and very pretty it is too).

Haslar Creek, and time for me to dis­play my abil­ity to recall point­less facts.  One the­ory behind the ori­gins of the phrase  ‘up the creek with­out a pad­dle’ comes from when sailors were brought up Haslar Creek by boat to the Naval Hos­pi­tal in Nelson’s time often to die.  The loca­tion of the site made it into a sort of prison so even those who recov­ered could not escape and desert.

We opted not to tour the Sub­ma­rine at the museum as it was busy and ticket are valid for a year so we’ll go back.  Instead we stuck to the sci­ence galleries

They have a Hor­ri­ble Sci­ence exhi­bi­tion on at the moment which we were look­ing for­ward to but was actu­ally dull.  We love the Hor­ri­ble His­tory stuff and the Geog­ra­phy but the sci­ence doesn’t work any­where near as well some­how, it should the sub­ject mat­ter is there but…  The exhi­bi­tion didn’t seem to con­tain any actual ‘sci­ence’ just car­toons.  Good for some kids I sup­pose but Sam much pre­ferred the per­ma­nent — not child focused — gallery.

It was Make and Take day so we stopped to make …

Jolly Roger — also the flag of sub­marines. If you click on the pic­ture it will take you to a site with info on what the symbols.

Hor­ri­ble Sci­ence inspired bag

When we got home we spent ages play­ing with bub­bles (I was blow­ing so no pho­tos) and Jack did some jug­gling practice.

Ha Ha Ha