Saturday, March 4, 2017

running and robots

Hello, all…it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I can’t remember if we’ve mentioned it, but I’ve been training for the London Marathon, which is coming up with slightly terrifying speed now. When I applied, I asked L if he wanted to do it with me, and he very sensibly said no. He actually said that someone would have to pick me up off the ground and carry me home afterward, but let’s hope it doesn’t come to that…

So I’ve been training and working and entertaining Sherlock so he doesn’t pull the flat down around our ears; you know, the usual. We went to see the Robots exhibition at the Science Museum a little bit ago. Have some pictures:







The strange baby robot on the yellow sofa is meant to provide comfort during telephone conversations. I question whether it could provide comfort to anyone under any circumstances at all. They also had an automated scene of the crucifixion and a tiny mechanical spider that Sherlock wants to replicate. Actually I think he'd like an entire army of them. 

Tomorrow my training schedule calls for me to run 20 miles. And then I'll call Sherlock's spider army to carry me home. Wish me luck.