Another Museum Visit

Our Sunday began with us starting the journey to one of the car boots about 6 miles away from home.  However, our satnav was not cooperating well. It led us to a residential area which sans the car boot set up. Frustrated, we left and decided to go to Stockwood instead - we love going there really!

Fortunately, other than the normal exhibition (which we have been visiting for 3 times at least!, there was another exhibition - Photograph of the Year. Hmm... we were after all in a better position - comparing car boot and museum :

(i) Museum is free (though we do contribute some donation); car boot : 30p - 50p entrance fee for adult (depending on where - the one in Errol is free)
(ii) Museum is fully sheltered; car boot : it may rain while you are bargaining
(iii) You gain new & invaluable knowledge at the museum ; car boot : you do too; there's a lot of books which price is a fraction of the same brand new - not only that you can get past issues or even out-of-print copy not to mention the rare books - I am always in the look out for books from the yesteryear; also, at the car boot sale, you can get a lot of information from the seller - I always like chatting them up - they are real sport!
(iv) The children can try on costumes and play pretend and not feeling guilty about it unlike at car boot - this depends really, I do feel guilty when I ended not buying - those hopeful faces....

Anyway, the above were my list actually more to heal my wound after not being able to go to car boot sales for already three weeks now! Booo HuHu! :-(

But we do have a good time at the museum as you can witness from the snaps below :

Trying the transport of yesteryear. Mia, turning a sour face as she wanted to sit where Aqil is

Baba and the Penny Farthing. Can you imagine how to get on the seat? A step ladder? Hehehe...

The Hobby Horse. Will be difficult to control I believe.

And the snaps below are of the children trying some of the costumes worn by the ladies and gentlemen in the Era :

Hmmm... two cowboys and a cowgirl!

My young unladylike lady giving a pose!

Oh yes, by the way, I mentioned earlier about the Photography of the Year Exhibition. The theme is Nature and Wildlife. What I can say is that, I really really fell for the patience of the photographers to get the right light, right movement, right timing and everything right in order to capture exceptionally fantastic pictures.  To be fair to them, I can't share with you the photos but two of my favourites are :

(i) an eagle snatching a starling by its paws. Simply fantastic!

(ii) a salmon escaping the grabbing paw of a bear! Heavenly!

But, no matter how much fun we have, there'll sure to be a 'tragedy'.  I believe you can make a guess of why this boy is crying (hence the red nose - nope not a reindeer just yet!), don't you?

I hope all of you had a Great Sunday too! Cheers! :-D