Wednesday

A while ago there was a campaign by an organisation called Stitch London, asking people to make miniature doll versions of themselves to be exhibited at the Science Museum. K entered, of course, fashioning a cool little mini K from various materials - her twin sister doing the same. Tonight is that exhibition, taking place as part of the Science Museum's adults-only 'lates' night.

I head home after work and grab something quick to eat, before jumping on the tube to South Kensington. On the way I carry on reading The Greatest Show on Earth, feeling that Richard Dawkins would probably be pleased that I was reading his book on the way to the Science Museum. I arrive and meet K and her little brother who, despite being officially too young for tonight's entertainment is, fortunately, over six feet tall - so no problem there.

We buy a beer - and what a joy wandering through a museum with a bottle of Becks on the go is - and explore the various exhibitions. Not much is different about the museum other than the pounding soundtrack, but it's nice to have an excuse to be here.

We eventually discover the doll exhibition, and K's doll has happily been placed alongside that of her twin. Having snapped a celebratory photo - it's not often you get something in a major museum - we leave, getting handed an inexplicable bottle of Lucozade as we pass through the door.