London Part I

A trip to London at the weekend saw us skilfully dodge the bad weather whilst allowing us to explore the unchartered and often mystifying land that is otherwise known as a child’s imagination, courtesy of the V&A Museum of Childhood.

Equipped with a healthy helping of pain au chocolat we got a glimpse of exactly what children believe the future could hold for them. This was in the form of captions which were then illustrated by assigned ‘grown-up’ artists; the results were amusing, heart warming and occasionally terrifying!

A few snippets included “Yellow and red animals will be living on a world of rice”, “The sharks look silly. No tooth fairy for the sharks because they always brush their teeth” and the absolute and straight to the point gem, “Kangaroo is eating the future (banana shaped)”.

These are only a few of the many varied predictions, but I like to think that statistically speaking surely one of them must come true, right?

There’s more information on other events run by the Museum of Childhood here, http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/