16th April, 2009 - GOMA

We - the kids and I - were at the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art yesterday. It is a good place to go with wee kids. It has a library in the basement, there's a good cafe (with high chairs) and there's a great wee art room full of stuff to play with. This latter is designed to inspire tiny minds to creativity I think. Unfortunately, it only seems to inspire my two to empty large volumes of small items onto the floor so that daddy has to put them away again. Building blocks, crayons. pieces of wool - all are tipped onto the floor in one great heap.

I would not mind, but they forget that I am an older father, and my knees are not what they once were. I should be resting in front of a roaring fire with a fine old malt nowadays instead of scrabbling about the floor of a playroom. It is not dignified.