::a trip down memory lane::

So, I took a trip to the Museum of childhood in Bethnal Green the other day....as part of my research for next year. Yes this is it....my final year is looming! I'm already thinking about what these hands will produce and this is where doubt also plays a big part in my thinking. I'm aware that I should be concentrating on more urgent matters...like getting a draft of my dissertation together for my return to college. But heading out and about in London sometimes is too good to resist...also bizarrely, so are the dishes, vacuuming, cleaning, laundry... basically anything other than sitting down to concentrate on my dissertation. Oh my goodness, I'm sure procrastination is on my birth cert somewhere as my real name!!
Anyway, the museum was packed with children, no surprise there! But mostly it was children with there faces pressed up against these glass cabinets that had shelves of toys of all sorts....cuddly bears that looked like they had been well loved, dolls, their houses and prams, board games, robots, roller skates, puppets, marbles, cash registers, a post office in a box [my Gran gave me one of those...loved it] & sooo much more! The thing is, I felt kinda like those kids with there faces pressed up against the glass, looking longingly at the toys that were so close, yet so far. I wanted to get in there and have a go and sit down and play. I even caught myself letting out little 'oohs' & 'ahs' when I saw some toys that I remember having in my own cupboards at home. It was funny how the packaging looked so dated, I felt old, but I guess we choose how young at heart we are going to be no matter how long ago those toys were in our own cupboards. I'm feeling a bit hedgehog like these days with all that wet, grey weather...I feel like curling up in a ball and hibernating until we get some sunshine. I have my fingers crossed for an Indian summer. Sunshine or no I am still on my mission to get out and about and see some more exhibitions. One of which is on in The British Museum, which I had never been to before and will definitely be making a return trip. There was a small exhibition on Crafting in Modern Japan, quite interesting, I was hoping there would be more textiles though and I felt that I was longing for something a bit more contemporary. On saying that, if you love anything Japanese, like me, this could be a good one for you.