So Thursday evening, as a benefit of my Science Museum Plus membership I got an invite to view some of the museum's small object collection, held at Blythe House, near Olympia.

When I left work just before five it had started to rain, and when I'd taken the circle line, to High Street Kensington and then changed to the district line to Olympia it was still raining. I got there at about 6:45 and had half an hour to find the building, and to get something to eat. I then realised I'd left my map print out on my desk!

Luckily I remembered the name of the building and there were maps outside the station. I then went looking for somewhere to get food, there were no fast food eateries, but I did eventually find Mirabel Restaurant & Cafe where I bought butterfly pasta and Bolognese sauce to take away. It was very odd eating it as I walked in the rain! Very tasty though.

I got to Gate B of Blythe House at about 8:15 and we were let in to a conference room where squash and biscuits were available. Blythe House was built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, and is now shared between the Science Museum, the V&A and the British Museum. There were 24 of us all together and we we split into two groups (I was in group 1) and we headed up the stairs.

First to the transport collection on the forth floor, after being shown around by David, and seeing a variety of objects, from model Concords to spark plugs and ice skates. After half an hour we moved down a floor to the Astronomy and science collection, we saw some very very old telescopes and a copy of the earliest known astronomical drawing of the moon by Thomas Heriot. By eight I'd left and got to the Olympia station, where I had to wait 20 minutes for a London Overground train to Clapham Junction, then to home.

Yesterday it rained, and I managed to leave my back pack on the train home, (more later). I booked my flight to Atlanta for Gafilk and got my visa waiver organised.

This morning I went to see my chiropractor (before it started raining again) then went to Brighton, and found my bag at the station lost and found! Then I went walking around and bought a deerstalker hat (my normal cap kept blowing off). The difference to my ears was amazing!

When I got home I got my travel insurance renewed. Many months ago I bought a side table designed to allow me to use a laptop easily when sitting in a lounge chair. I finally got around to putting it together, it's actually a lot better than I thought.

I'm looking forward to the new episode of Doctor Who tomorrow.