New Activities - Month Nine
Jan. 18th, 2020 09:06 pmFirstly, I want to say how excited I am that
story_works is holding Take A Leap: A year long challenge of trying out new things. I'm looking forward to taking part!
This month's challenge is Try Out Anything New and I'm using a couple of things here to complete that challenge.
The last couple of days I've been in London (play reviews will be coming!) but I also wanted to do some other things. Yesterday I went to the Science Museum to go to two of their special exhibitions: Top Secret: From Cyphers to Cyber Security and The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter. Top Secret was a bit disappointing - I found the bits about WWI interesting, and also reading about Bletchley Park and seeing an Enigma machine was worth doing, but could have done without being told how wonderful GCHQ were; I moved through the second part quite quickly. The Art of Innovation had some interesting sections, but these were the ones in the earlier timeframe. I find the Science Museum a bit too confident that we now know everything, and failing to learn from earlier centuries that this isn't always true.
However, I did have a very nice lunch in the museum café, and I've not eaten there before.
Then this morning I went on a backstage tour of the Barbican Theatre. I'd been trying to find a suitable activity for Anything New, and when I read about these tours I booked a place. It was very interesting - I do like seeing backstage. I haven't been to the Barbican Theatre for over four years - they are the London base for the RSC, but we go to Stratford to see them. I'd definitely recommend the tour.
And then, on my way back to the tube station, I found a small café to have my lunch, which also counts for Anything New!
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
This month's challenge is Try Out Anything New and I'm using a couple of things here to complete that challenge.
The last couple of days I've been in London (play reviews will be coming!) but I also wanted to do some other things. Yesterday I went to the Science Museum to go to two of their special exhibitions: Top Secret: From Cyphers to Cyber Security and The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter. Top Secret was a bit disappointing - I found the bits about WWI interesting, and also reading about Bletchley Park and seeing an Enigma machine was worth doing, but could have done without being told how wonderful GCHQ were; I moved through the second part quite quickly. The Art of Innovation had some interesting sections, but these were the ones in the earlier timeframe. I find the Science Museum a bit too confident that we now know everything, and failing to learn from earlier centuries that this isn't always true.
However, I did have a very nice lunch in the museum café, and I've not eaten there before.
Then this morning I went on a backstage tour of the Barbican Theatre. I'd been trying to find a suitable activity for Anything New, and when I read about these tours I booked a place. It was very interesting - I do like seeing backstage. I haven't been to the Barbican Theatre for over four years - they are the London base for the RSC, but we go to Stratford to see them. I'd definitely recommend the tour.
And then, on my way back to the tube station, I found a small café to have my lunch, which also counts for Anything New!