You Hang Up, No You Hang Up!!!

We had a great today at Milton Keynes Museum. It was their 1940s weekend and there was loads of WW2 memorabilia, a working - and incredibly loud - Spitfire, a wartime village police station, military and civilian vehicles, vintage stalls, a display of wartime wedding dresses - many made of parachute silk, an Anderson shelter in the wartime garden (quite scary to be closed in there with the sounds of aeroplanes overhead and bombs exploding all around. See extras) wartime singers and music. It was brilliant!
As well as the wartime stuff there was the normal museum exhibits - a wonderful street of shops: a butcher’s, Post Office, haberdasher, pub, hardware store, chemist’s, grocer, department store and cinema. All full  of things you were allowed to touch and fiddle with!! 
There was a giant working water wheel, Victorian hoops to play with in the yard, the farmhouse complete with Victorian kitchen, schoolroom, laundry and parlour.
And the best thing of all - the Connected Earth gallery, telling the story of human communication from smoke signals and cannons sounding the alarm right through to the very latest in phone technology.
The Little Misses loved the "old" phones! It was quite something to realise they had no idea how these weird things worked. The phones were connected to a working exchange so you could ring other phones in the room. They rang each other and us for a good half hour!                        
My mum and dad took the Little Misses home with them for a sleepover and Mr K and I headed into Milton Keynes for dinner at Chimichanga and then Jason Bourne at the cinema.