Sunday 7 June was a fairly lazy day. I walked along Cromwell Road to the Science Museum and had a look at Charles Babbage's Analytical and Difference Engines (if you don’t know what they are, I recommend Google!), including the working one built by the Science Museum in the 1990s from Babbage’s own plans and descriptions, using 19^th century materials and techniques, thus proving that it could have been done back then. And for the Poms among you who remember that far back, I saw the first ERNIE.

On Monday I took the first of two London Walks. These are very good organised walks, usually led by an out-of-work or aspiring actor, who really know their stuff and how to put it across. This first one started at the Bermondsey Wall and we walked along beside the Thames to Rotherhithe and finished up in the Brunel Museum there. We were able to go down, with difficulty, into the vertical tunnel shaft Marc Brunel built using, for the first time ever, the caisson method. This was to enable him to then drive a tunnel under the Thames. He ran out of money but it was finished and Tube trains now run through the tunnel.

We also saw the place where, supposedly, the Mayflower sailed from, en route to America, there is of course a pub there. And near the Brunel Museum is the remains of a manor house built by Edward III.

This was probably not the best Walk I have done, and we stopped quite often to hear about what we were looking at, in biting wind by the river.

I took the second walk on Tuesday afternoon; this one was "London in WWI" and we walked around all the locations of people (politicians) involved in WWI, with a commentary on the politics of WWI.

The other museum I went to on Tuesday was the Bank of England Museum. I didn’t know this one existed but it was opened in 1988! I saw a lot of interesting exhibits, coins, and bank notes, but there were school parties there which were aggravating.