May 2013
4 posts
I Can Be
Did you know that you can be anything? Anything you could ever possibly want to be? Do you want to be a bee keeper? Great, do that. You’re hoping to make money from your writing? Wicked, try it. You want to be an accountant? YOU CAN DO IT MY FRIEND. One lady trying to spread this inspirational mantra is Barbie.
Barbs is a woman who knows a lot about work. According to Wikipedia, she has had...
February 2013
1 post
Your Doody-Do-Do Keys
Following on from a previous blog about the wonder of the doody-do-do card, I wanted to discuss the joys of the doody-do-do KEYS. To remind you - or for those of you who never read it (WHAT) - a doody-do-do card is a little plastic magic thing, generally with your face on it, and your name, and your job title, that allows you to freely storm around your place of work, going through secret doors...
December 2012
3 posts
The Twelve Days of Explainer-Mas
An intensive yet hilarious bout of training with the Explainer Unit at the Science Museum produced a set of witty, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable people.
But the training also produced this:
The Twelve Days of Explainer-Mas.
A re-writing of the traditional English Christmas Carol that reflected the good, the bad, and the SCIENTIFIC which Explainers in the museum’s interactive...
October 2012
4 posts
Now, this is your Doody-Do-Do Card...
The Seven Ages of Man appears to be a missing a stage. Arisen in recent years, the missing eighth in the set is the result of increasing difficulties during the Big Transition from university graduate to real life professional person. Alongside the Employment Hunger Games, fought by all eager twenty-somethings using their CV’s to bludgeon one another to death, these Not-Quite-Real-People,...
"Now, this is your Doody-Do-Do Card." →
Channel 4 comedy Black Books. Manny begins work at Goliath Books, where he receives what is probably his FIRST Doody-Do-Do card. Watch from 4 minutes onwards. Its very exciting.
April 2012
3 posts
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The Grown-Up's Castle: Kings and Queens of the...
Having spent some years mulling over it, I think that the magic behind the castle lay in its ability to survive. They are incredible structures, having lasted for several centuries, more recently under the protection of organisations such as English Heritage. Wonderfully, castles, despite their age, continue to dominate over landscapes, and many have been preserved well enough to exist similarly...
March 2012
5 posts
Rockets and Burps: Applying the "Inspire" mantra...
It was at about this time last year that I was alerted to the fact that my little East Anglian science museum was due to close. With the anniversary of our loss of the Inspire Discovery Centre coming up in the next few days, I decided that it would make the most adequate topic for this week’s ThinkExhibit blog post; dedicated to the staff who made it imaginative and eccentric, and to our...
Every birthday, a friend will buy me a Dinosaur.
The thought of joining the blogging trend was terribly daunting, and having blundered my way through the first baby steps, I find myself with the most disconcerting task of all: the first post. It reminded me very much of my first ‘tweet’, where I was unable to choose which thought to share first. Should it be witty? Inspiring? Though provoking? My Twitter debut was probably none of...
