A Great Day Out! RAF Museum Hendon

I’m always looking for inexpensive family days out (in Herts or North London Area), not that we can’t afford it but I object to paying and arm and a leg to spend quality time with my daughter. @annieqpr one of my twitter mates recommended the RAF Museum in Hendon.

Earlier this week my daughter asked to go to an airport and I duped her by taking her to the local outlet centre which looks like an airport.  I think you’ll agree from the photo.  She had a great time running around but I don’t think the ride-on airplane fooled her. So I thought it was only fair to make more of an effort!

We had a great morning at the museum and it was all free, including the parking!  I’m not a plane enthusiast but my husband is a real anorak.  His father serviced planes during the war, which I attribute to this fascination. I’ve also been told that it’s a bloke thing.  I learned the date they painted black and white stripes on the bottom of planes, the equivalents to German planes and the process of recovery planes from lakes in Europe.

I really didn’t mind though because Madame absolutely loved it.  She just ran around shouting plane, plane, plane!  There’s also an interactive section for kids…she’s a bit young to get a lot out of it, but she did get to press buttons and things happened.  Plus, her daddy got to make a fool of himself on a glider and sat in a tiny helicopter (Roberts R22).

We ate in the Wings restaurant, which I wouldn’t recommend, but you could take your own food as there is an area for those who do.

All in all, a great day out!

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Do you know any good Chick Flicks?

As there is very little chance I’ll ever be invited to another girlie movie night, as I moaned the entire time during Shopaholic, I’ve decided to have a Girlie Movie Night around my house in a couple of weeks and am looking for DVD suggestions.  Here is my list so far, courtesy of my Twitter friends.  Have I missed any?

  • The Proposal with Sandra Bullock (@clairey67, @atko, @EmmaC_73)
  • Remember Me or 27 Dresses (@MNTwilightMom)
  • The Holiday (@PennyAW)
  • French Kiss, Just like Heaven or Sweet Home Alabama (@DarkFridge)
  • Marley & Me, My Sister’s Keeper, (@flossiebella)
  • An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, The Goodbye Girl, or Green Card (@Winstonita)
  • Freaky Friday (@AndyBasildon)
  • Dirty Dancing (@ecjc, @Freesia13)
  • Pay it forward, City of Angels or Just Like Heaven (@blossom101)
  • Maybe Baby (@beachhut81)
  • In Her Shoes. Shall We Dance (@Freesia13)
  • Mama Mia, What Woman Want or Moulin Rouge (@AndyBasildon)
  • Brief Encounter (@Welshracer)

Local Pub Crawl

Just in case I ever need it, trying to work out an alphabetical pub crawl…..stumped on a few!

Alban Arena?

Bar 62

Cock

Duke of Marlborough

E

Farmers Boy

Goat

Hare and Hounds

Inn on the Park

Jolly Sailor

King Harry

Lower Red

Mokoko

N

O’Neill’s

Peahen

Q

Rose and Crown

Snug

T

U

Verulam Arms

White Hart Tap

X

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks

Z

Picture Puzzle: The Answer

Thank you all for taking part.  I hope you enjoyed.  The answer of course to the Picture Puzzle was

Photo Credit

Canada!

More about the pictures (including photo credits) and some interesting Canadian Trivia

    • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump was used by Canadian First Nations People to kill buffalo by driving them off the 10 metre cliff, hence the name.
      • Poutine (pronounced Poo-TEEN) is a French Canadian dish consisting of French fries, cheese curd and gravy.  Don’t knock it till you try it.
        • Hôtel de Glace is the first ice hotel in North America, which is built every January and disappears in the spring it’s located on the outskirts of Quebec.
              • Yonge Street is the longest street in the world at 1178 miles long!!!
                • Wasaga Beach, in Ontario, is the longest freshwater beach in the world.
                  • This could be disputed but the Zipper was invented in Canada.
                    • Canada’s only desert, it’s only 15 miles long but is home to the Endangered Western Rattlesnake.  They’ll catch the snakes and put them in a ‘snake hotel’ so you can have a closer look.  No thanks!
                      • Lacrosse shares the title as Canada’s National Sport alongside Ice Hockey of course.


                        Does Spelling and Grammar Matter?

                        I need to preface this post by stating that I’m not the grammar police and my spelling and grammar can be shocking at the best of times!

                        Today I was reading a blog of a Twitter friend and noticed a few typos.  Being a busy mum I was sure it was done in haste.  As I felt I knew her well enough, I thought I should quietly mention it to her and did via Twitter.  After doing so, I regretted it immediately.  However, in the end she was fine with it, explaining that Blogger no longer has a spell check feature.  To be honest, I will probably never do it again.

                        As usual, I threw the question out to Twitter and received a range of responses:

                        This has made me wonder if it really does matter.  On Twitter, it definitely doesn’t as the character limit makes grammatical errors and txt spk inevitable.  However, does it matter on a blog?  Some people don’t think so, but I think if you are trying to promote your blog beyond personal use then it should.  I fully appreciate that many of us just want to get our thoughts out ‘there’ as quickly as possible.

                        I find it difficult to read blogs that are full of errors.  This is due to years of touch typing classes that my mother forced me to take, which I’m now grateful for.  To calculate your speed you had to circle the errors and subtract from total words typed in a minute.  I now can’t read newspapers, books, etc without the errors leaping off the page at me.

                        It also reminded me of my career prep classes in High School, when they were teaching us about CV’s.  They said that employers sorted through large stacks of CV’s by throwing out the ones with spelling mistakes without even reading the credentials or experience.

                        I’m sure my posts are full of errors but I will try to be more diligent.

                        So who’s going to point out the first error in this post?