[blink] Ohhhh kaaaay... Blogger have changed the dashboard look, that threw me slightly...
Argent - the blood test shows he has hyperthyroidism (which might account for why, at sixteen, he still acts like a kitten ) and a degree of kidney failure. This was sort of anticipated, and certainly the kidney problems are slow-developing, so there's nothing critical at the moment. I have to take him back next Tuesday to discuss how we want to proceed - which I suspect means medication. Which will be a nightmare with Argent. More as we find more out.
I have the first sweet pepper coming in the greenhouse.
We
definitely have a hedgepig! (Which is probably where Argent's flea problem came from. But the Stronghold is vicious stuff and has stopped that dead.)
Today... I took Kai to the
SS Great Britain.
The last time I took him he must have been under four, because he got in for nothing, and I remember the ship being little more than a shell with temporary walkways and dim lighting. Well, what a difference a few years (and a shedload of Lottery cash) has made!
Visitors go through an excellent museum first, to get to the ship. The old dry dock has been fitted out with glass plates with water over them, so from above it looks like the ship is floating.
From below, however, you can look up from the temperature and humidity controlled dock and through the water, which is a strange feeling, but very effective.
It's now possible to explore two decks, which have been set up as they would have been when the ship was working.
The photo on the left shows steerage bunks, while the one on the right is a first class cabin. Both would have me panicking with claustrophobia, but what really got me is that those bunks, whether steerage or first class, are only
eighteen inches wide. I know people were a little smaller a hundred and sixty years ago, but all the same... I'd be sleeping on deck!
The galley has been all set up as it would have been, along with some of the storage space (the thought of trying to prepare about six hundred meals twice a day in that galley - which was about the size of our lounge... no, a little bigger, but not by a whole lot! - is horrendous) and the cargo area at the stern, which was used for animals as well.
There's a life-size working model of the engine too.
We were there for
hours - it's a terrific afternoon out. What's particularly good, too, is that though the entry is a bit pricey - £10.95 for adults and £5.65 for kids - that ticket allows you free return visits in the following twelve months, which is amazing value for money. I'm certainly taking Kai back before Yule: it would be nice to experience the place without the tourists!
The Harbourside train isn't running at the moment - there's building work going on along the track - so we took the ferry there and back, which was great fun.
Arrived back knackered and, since I'm on a Brendan Fraser kick at the moment, watched
George of the Jungle (a
hugely silly and slapstick film, but worth it for the BF droolage) on FilmFlex. And in a few minutes another of his films -
Airheads - is on TV, so I just have time to get this posted before settling down to watch...
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