No photo's please!We were in Dublin last week. I decided to take my two lads and their two cousins to the National art gallery, to introduce them to a bit of culture. (A run around in a big building) We had a great time. The kids found the lifts fascinating and setting off the alarm when I touched a 500 year old painting was very exciting. (How was I to know that invisible infa-red beams shining down from the ceiling protect the pictures)? The security guards certainly earned their money that afternoon and of course the children got the blame…. Kids eh?
After we were asked to leave we decided to check out the new computer section that has opened. Here you can do a virtual tour of the gallery without being shouted at. The kids loved it and probably spent more time on the computers than they did in the gallery. Some people might think it strange to be looking at a picture on a screen when the real thing was upstairs. It became obvious to me that the gang had taken in more than I imagined. They toured around until they found their favourite pictures and zoomed in to get the details.
This gave me a great idea for the armchair gardener for Christmas…. a virtual garden. Just think you could use one finger to dig the plot, sow the seeds, and weed. When all this gets too much you can switch the computer off and you wouldn’t even have mucky boots or tools to clean. You could watch the plants grow in the comfort of your armchair. There are drawbacks of course. Your own garden would become a wilderness, you wouldn’t get any fresh air, your skin would go transparent because you wont get any sun and unless you went to the gym for some exercise you would loose the sight of your feet. Maybe it’s not such a good idea after all.
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