Black Country Museum - Socially Distanced Family Day Out
It's fair to say we haven't had that many days out this year. We're lucky to live in such a beautiful place it doesn't feel like a huge need of ours. But with parties being a firm no at the moment we wanted to celebrate our middle child's birthday in some way. All the days out at the moment have to be booked in advance, so we drew up a short list and tried to pick something we thought wouldn't be too affected by the new rules. I booked some tickets for the Black Country Museum, a place I've never visited but have driven past hundreds of times when I used to work up that way. Think I was more excited than the kids to be honest! Social distancing rules for places like this have made it really hard for them to keep going, when we got their we realised why - the numbers are so limited it felt like we'd hired the whole place to ourselves. For me it was ideal, although I do feel for the museum. We could look round each house that was open easily and clea...