h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What seems like a very long time ago now, you were kind enough to recommend the Horniman as a place to go, and so we have a few times now. It's GREAT! And I eventually wrote a toddler's guide about it: http://kiddingherself.com/horniman-museum-london/

So thanks again!

Brilliant! I'm glad you loved it too, it's such a quirky place, delightfully silly yet fascinating. It was always so child friendly, ideal for those of limited attention spans, so I'm glad that hasn't changed.

The live animals are new though! Maybe I will take my youngest there again when she is next visiting. She's now almost 25

Do you keep scrapbooks or diaries of visits, apart from the blog? I have a box of these, which come out whenever they visit. It's hard copy proof, in their own wobbly handwriting, of all the things we did. Sunshine (now 28 and a teacher herself) always wrote about the food! Moonlight was much more meticulous, detailing times and the minutia of the days. I used to get the school worksheets for places too.

Have you ever made it to the adults only Science Museum evenings? I think I recommended them a while back as well. There's one next week http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_your_visit/lates.aspx

Glad you liked it! Such a great place!

I'll be honest - I am just the teensiest fed up of the Science Museum. My son does a Thing round the corner every Saturday for three hours and so I have to entertain my Daughter and she LOVES it, so we have been a lot. A. Lot. I am currently going every other week, because I just can;t take any more.

I am quite intrigued by the Lates programmes, which seem to be springing up everywhere. At some point I must go, just to see how it's a different vibe.

Do you know, you have given me another good idea. I've been feeling odd that all of my online stuff doesn't have pictures of the kids, and yet I have also not fund the time to make albums of their photos. A scrapbook themed around the blog just for them, with their additions and the photos I can't put up publicly would actually help me get started on both those problems. Hurrah!

Get going on the scrapbooks! Our handwritten diaries come out a lot, even more than 20 years later. Moonlight (almost 25) has been visiting all week and was showing a friend something just this week, written almost 20 years ago.

Can I recommend somewhere else? It's free and quite a secret place, but I don't see any mention on Herself's blog so maybe you haven't been. It's not open very much, but when I was there it seemed such a perfect place to pass a bit of time with toddlers.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/visitor-information/conservatory