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Tuesday 18th September 2007
This is the only picture I have from today. We went to Tullie House and were staggered by the admission cost for an adult (down on the web-site as £5.20, but I'm sure it was much more than that), considering that museums are usually free. I was ranting and raving about the admission cost went this assistant very kindly pointed out there was a children's section that had free entry. Cool! We're there! A****** loved the children's museum, as there was loads of stuff to look at and play with, plus loads of interesting things for parents to read and look at. Whilst A****** was serving us pretend dinner with his pretend tea-set, I was reading about the origin of superstitions and bad-luck and what-not. So shoes on the table is symbolic of hanging, apparently, and I would guess to have shoes on the table would be very bad luck, as you would be encouraging death into the house. Whilst there is an obvious health risk of placing shoes on a table (that is, shoes that have been worn/used outside, as oppose to brand new shoes), the pamphlet I was reading was suggesting that all these silly superstitions were usually founded in a time when science was not yet evolved enough to say, "Don't be silly." The picture of A****** in that bee costume was . . . well, we got him to wear a wolf costume and something else (a fox?!), but then he would say, "Don't like it, fox" and would have the costume off before I was able to photograph him.
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