The Crime Museum Uncovered, etc.

Last Wednesday was a really good day. I dragged myself up early again to get the coach to London for the Crime Museum exhibit that I mentioned in my last post. I met up with Lana at Victoria and we took off to the Museum of London, a small (but very cool and interesting) museum not very far away from St Paul's cathedral.

Unfortunately photography was not permitted in the exhibit (I guess because of the sensitive nature of the artifacts, plus there were a lot of old things so camera flashes might've caused damage), but it was incredible. As soon as you walked in there was a Metropolitan Police car behind a barrier of police tape. It was so bleak, fascinating, humbling, and strange to see real crime evidence before your eyes. My favourite bits were the actual nooses used to execute murderers, the bit about the Krays (of course), and the burnt-out chair where a corpse was sitting when the police found it. It wasn't just murders and executions though; there were also sections on drugs, counterfeiting (my favourite!), police techniques, abortions, terrorism, disguised and homemade weapons, and robberies. It was so fascinating, and I would highly recommend going - the exhibit is running until April 10th next year, so if you can get down to London to see it, do! I bought the souvenir book of the exhibit as it's full of photos and information about it all for me to peruse at my leisure because - as you can probably imagine - the exhibition was packed.

By the time we got out of there, we were losing the light so I didn't much fancy going to Whitechapel. We just popped to Topshop on Oxford Street instead; I bought a pair of socks with Nefertiti on them, and Lana and I took some totally terrible and adorable photobooth pictures (we were roped in by the cute mint-coloured photobooth):

While I was wandering around the St Paul's area with Lana, I got a text from Paperchase saying that they want me to come in for an interview on October 25th! I'm really excited, and I hope I get the job. Paperchase is my favourite shop in the whole flamin' world (tied in first place with Waterstones), so I would be in my element there.

On Thursday Mum, Nan and I went to visit Ashleigh and Ethan - we all had withdrawal symptoms because we hadn't seen the baby for a couple of weeks. He's bigger yet again, and smiles and laughs so much. He also loves music - if you play music, set off one of his musical toys, sing to him, etc, he's so happy and involved. Especially if you dance with him too, or bounce him on your knee. My legs got a good work out because he's now 13 pounds in weight, and I was bouncing him on my knees for a good hour or so while Mum played him music (we'd told Ash to go upstairs and take a nap while we were there to keep Ethan occupied). 

Ethan had a very fashionable dinosaur-themed outfit on.

We had a nice lunch at Harvester, and caught up with Ashleigh. Ethan was really well behaved; he got a bit fussy towards the end of the meal because he was hot and bothered and probably quite bored too, but apart from that he was good as gold. I adore that child so much, he's just the most well behaved, placid, smiley and happy little thing. Also, while we were eating lunch, Mum got a phone call from Ryan saying he'd passed his driving test! First time around! We were all proud and so happy for him; I must admit I was slightly appalled that my 18-year-old brother can now legally drive and I cannot. My excuse is that I went to university so I have zero pounds.