Sheffield

These streets will make you feel brand new,

Big lights will inspire you,
Now you're in New York, New York, New York ..

It's come to the point once again where my body clock is buggered beyond immediate repair, but not even in the usual, workable nocturnal way. It's a strange half-a-day-behind kind of thing, which is messing with my head and making what should be late afternoon breakfast time. I think I'll order out.

I was in Sheffield yesterday with a few special people, eating pasties and doing Northern sightseeing and such like. Have you ever been to Weston Park Museum? It's one of those interactive child friendly museums with a plethora of different exhibitions which in retrospect I can't possibly link together (e.g. the prominence of Sheffield as an international steelworks city; Egyptian mummies; Prehistoric creatures; A room full of paintings and plates and crockery; a stuffed polar bear etc).

Looks like this.

For me, the crowning part has to be comments left by children who've visited; sometimes it's in a comment book, sometimes they're on bits of paper provided by the museum which ask friendly questions for the child to answer.

Ruth, Anna, Benjy - I hope you read this and laugh again as much as we did at the time. One of the best child comments of all ..

Museum Question: What is precious to you?

Child scrawl: Woodlice, cheese, and Lego.

Only it was scrawled in such a fashion that the latter word looked as if it said 'Legs'. Woodlice, cheese and legs. You couldn't write that kind of comedy.

Regardless of the fact that it was a simple legibility issue, and that I myself have always been a big fan of Lego, the reality remains that somewhere in the world, there is a child who holds woodlice and cheese close to their heart. How I wish I could meet them one day.