Tiring but good day

[helenprev]

Giant Spider Stalks City StreetsTim has been out at work all day today, with the car, so over the past few days I had been toying with the idea of taking the children somewhere on the train. Last night I started thinking that a trip to Liverpool to see the giant spider might be a nice idea

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[tiggsybabes]

How cool :) I can empathise at how tiring a day out using the train is without another parent to help out. Mine always have moments when I do this with them :/

I wonder if my slo cooker has a timer? I haven't noticed, so assuem it hasn't.

[helenprev]

Neither has mine. I just use one of those timer switch plugs you can buy - plug the slow cooker into that and then that into the wall!

[tiggsybabes]

That's a good idea :)

I wonder if my slo cooker has a time

[bunnyk]

Probably not, but it should have a high and low setting if it's a basic one :-) I put stuff in my slow cooker before I go to work, put it on low, and come home to a marvellously cooked meal. It doesn't matter all _that_ much about having a timer for it, in my humble opinion :-)

[donna_k]

Next time you need help finding somewhere in Liverpool, ring me! :) I'm glad you did manage to see La Princesse properly though. I've been really lucky both times I've tried it, and ended up in places with a really good view. She is pretty spectacular! (oh, and that road you couldn't get down was Lord Street, just to cross over with the facebook conversation! :)) Poor L1 though - I found it horrible enough and I'm a fully grown adult with a fair bit of weight behind me - and poor you as well! It can't have been easy keeping track of three children in all that!

[helenprev]

It was easier than I expected, actually. Little Three had hold of my hand the whole time; Little One had a bright pink top on, and Little Two was making enough noise that I knew where he was! ;-)

[dawn9163]

Well done L2

and I'm so glad that you managed to have a good view of her - at least all 3 will remember that they were there and they saw here

[ciorstaidh]

Well done all of you - what a fantastic day! I must admit you wouldn't have caught me there for love nor money, being something of an arachnaphobe! And you do walk miles and miles in Liverpool without noticing it.

You're not going mad, we used to time visits to the Albert Dock so that we were near Fred's weather map when he was doing it! We also spent many a happy visit wandering in and out of the Maritime Museum; there was another one with a planetarium and I have no idea if that one's still open but it was great fun for us as kids as well. It had a big thing about Liver birds and the curator got all excited when I mentioned I still had my Olly (I still do!). Olly is a Liver bird from the Liverpool Garden Festival of 1984 and he still has his t-shirt. He is very well loved. He is Olly because I couldn't say Polly and when we got him I was only months old so he was about twice the size of me!

[donna_k]

There's a planetarium at the main museum up near the station - is that the one you mean? It's now called "World Museum Liverpool", but has mostly the same displays as it had 15 years ago. :)

[ciorstaidh]

Ooh, I'm sure that I do. Well I can't imagine there being more than one planetarium in Liverpool :P

It's got five(ish?) floors or I might be making that up but it had a really fun child-friendly planetarium and cabinets of Dead Stuff and...yeah, it was cool. And it must have been close to various stations cos we used to come in from Crosby & Blundellsands and it wasn't enough of a walk that I remember it, IYSWIM ;) and having checked out the website, I'm certain that's the museum I mean - I recognise the building, and not in the way you recognise random buildings you pass as a child ;)

I need to find time to get to the archives at the MMM though - we have ancestors who were seamen in and out of Liverpool and I want to see if we can place them on duty in 1851 and 1871 - otherwise they disappear off the census, annoyingly!

[donna_k]

Yep that's the one. Next time you're in Liverpool, you shall have to visit it!

(I used to know someone who worked in the archives at MMM, but sadly that is no longer the case, or I might have been able to help you!)

[carolynp]

I remember Fred's weather map as well!