{"id":12788,"date":"2013-11-03T20:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12788"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:12:50","slug":"a-day-at-the-museums-with-catrin-and-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12788","title":{"rendered":"A day at the museums with Catrin and James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I was able to take my granddaughter Catrin out of nursery for the day to join our young friend Jen and her son James who is just a few months older than Catrin. This is the third time in the last few months that Catrin and James have spent a day together and they just adore each other&#8217;s company &#8211; laughing, cuddling, and holding hands. This time. we were joined by our dear friend Georgeanne who took some lovely pictures on her iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>We started in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/\">Science Museum<\/a> and spent most of our time in a basement section called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/visitmuseum_OLD\/galleries\/the_garden.aspx\">The Garden<\/a> which is an adventure playground for young children. Then we walked round to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\">Victoria &amp; Albert Museum<\/a> which has an exercise for little ones called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/content\/articles\/b\/backpacks\/\">Agent Animal<\/a> that involves them finding sculptures of various animals and pressing disks which emit the sound of that particular animal.<\/p>\n<p>We had some lunch in the open air courtyard of the V&amp;A and found ourselves in a long storytelling session. With Catrin on one knee and James on the other, I told the stories of &#8220;The Three Little Piggies&#8221;, &#8220;Goldilocks And The Three Bears&#8221;, &#8220;Little Red Riding Hood&#8221; and &#8220;Jack And The Beanstalk&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know who enjoyed it more &#8211; them or me.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/C&amp;J.jpg\" border=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span>&#8220;Now James, we are are in the Science Museum<br \/>\nand I think we should start in the basement section for us kids.&#8221;<\/span><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/C&amp;R.jpg\" border=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Catrin and Roger study a sculpture<br \/>\nin the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum<\/span><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/J&amp;C.jpg\" border=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Roger tells a succession of fairy stories<br \/>\nto an enraptured James and Catrin<br \/>\nin the courtyard of the V&amp;A<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I was able to take my granddaughter Catrin out of nursery for the day to join our young friend Jen and her son James who is just a few months older than Catrin. This is the third time in the last few months that Catrin and James have spent a day together and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12788"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12798,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions\/12798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}