We'd hoped to go to Fleetwood today (for a complete change since neither of us has visited the town before) and visit the fishing museum. Sadly the weather didn't play ball. Grey skies, diagonal drizzle and strong wind don't add up to the best conditions in an exposed seaside resort, and today we got all three. So we took a rain check (literally) and headed to Kendal Museum instead.
We've been here before, once for a proper look round and several times to meetings of the local Astronomical Society, but it's an eclectic mix of history, archaeology, local geology, art and stuffed fluffies and always good for poking about on a wet day. This time we concentrated on some of the natural history displays: lots of taxidermy which these days would be frowned upon, but because the exhibits date from Victorian times actually seems quite educational. Neither of us had ever realised just how huge an albatross is, for instance, until we saw the pair they have here.
A nice way of losing an entire hour - and better still, it's free!
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