To the Science Museum...

Our trains leave mid-afternoon. And the Science Museum has luggage lockers, so it was back to South Kensington for some Science Museum fun. When we arrived the ground floor was a bit of a zoo, but we skipped up to the first floor (medicine) which was lovely and quiet and they had some fascinating stuff. Then up to the information technology floor for even more stuff. Panels from the original Leo computer? Yes please. We went a few years back and the computation stuff was terrible. Just a tiny model computer room from the early eighties. But now they have loads of stuff. And they had a really good game which showed how infections spread around.

Good lunch too. And then we braved the ground floor, at one end of which was a huge and expensive looking exhibition about carbon capture. Which was horrible. It presented this as a viable solution to the policy of burning things for energy. Which I’m not convinced it is. They showed this hugely expensive looking industrial plant that they reckoned could get rid of the emissions of six households. Which is tiny. Why not spend a fraction of the cost of this thing on insulating twelve households so that they only use half the power. One of the worst examples I’ve seen of “green-washing” I’ve seen. In the Science Museum. Wah.

Then we grabbed our luggage and headed for the train. Found a nice nature park near King’s Cross for a drink and then got on the train which left right on time, connected right on time and got us into Cottingham right on time. Everyone was great, trains were clean and shiny and the seats were comfy. And now we’re back.