Next years events and a challenge!
Well another year almost over and time to plan for 2011! After a lot of head scratching and deep thought ( OK beer was involved 
)
the finest and greatest minds the Order of the Golden Sprout has to offer ( alright me and Ian 
) have come up with the following ideas.
Bones – Bodies & Beer
Day trip to the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in Lincolns Inn Fields, London.
The Hunterian museum is free but we need to book in advance in groups of up to 30. Their website http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/
suggests a £3.00 donation per person. The museum is full of all sorts of specimens including the bones of Charles Byrne the Irish Giant.
This is pencilled in for spring .
Navy Larks
Day trip to Portsmouth for visit the "interesting" creationist museum, HMS Warrior & Hms Victory. Even if you are not interested in warships these two are well worth seeing. The museum is closed at the moment for expansion but with any luck will be open next year so we can all be persuaded that Charles Darwin was wrong and we all lived with Dinosaurs. Hmmmmm. http://www.genesisexpo.co.uk/ is their website.
The Lost World of Crystal Palace
Summer picnic amongst the dinosuars at Crystal Palace, London.
Now for the Challenge!
These three events are in the South, so come on you Sprouties from around the country find something wierd/ interesting/ unusual from your area, an event, a museum or anything you think would appeal to our warped little minds. Send any ideas to me or Ian via private message and who knows we may just come up and drink your local pub dry!
Count me in esp a trip to see The Victory (did you know its still officially a naval ship of the line and long may it stay so).
I will have a think of things to do in the middle of the country if you want.
I'll be available for both, other events permitting 
("Spring" is pretty much free!)
Just name a date and I'll try my utmost to be there...
As portsmouth is on my doorstep it'd be pretty poor if i didn't go!
See you there!
It's been years since I visited the dinosaurs at CP so I'll try to do that to!
The Booth Museum in Brighton would be a fantastic place to visit and could be combined with lots of retro dressing up from the different flashback periods in the books, or just a chance to all be Lazlo Woodbine and lurk in an alleyway under a hat! Some great pubs and always free music, just a case of looking for it!
I love my Dinosaurs! The crystal palace dinos are from my childhood, and i would love to picnic with the big square ones from the 1980s TV show, but not the scary lizard ones...
Carlisle is a fantastic place to go, with original train station and lots of trains for spotters, and it still has a cathedral and a castle which is half tourist and half still a working castle! There is a slower pace of life there and is the start of Hadrians wall, not an excuse to wear a kilt!!!
London is also home to the wellcome collection, a whole lifetimes collection of stuff relating to peoples lives, from birth, sex, bodies, and death.
What does a "working castle" do?
A working castle is one that has work going on inside it. Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway is one too. There is loads of workshops and stuff inside it. And its home to the Marquis of Queensbury (he of the boxing rules).
Ahh, not just builders working in there then
