Uneasy Drifters on Unformatted Days,

In the 21st century, on these isles, a throwaway culture exists. This is nothing new, as I found out today; they’ve been throwing stuff away for years. Thankfully, for the people of Perth, somebody has picked all that junk up and put it in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, otherwise the town would be a dump and not the reasonably agreeable and leafy place that it is.

The museum is bigger than to be expected and full of quality items that would tickle the fancy of David Dickinson; he’s on an inferior ITV antiques show these days and he’s being strangled by a lack of scope for catchphrases. There are some vague things that don’t really fit in and the good information supplied is relevant to most places. The articles that are relevant to the evolution of Perth around its transport links are really interesting. It’s difficult to imagine big boats sailing up the Tay to reach Perth, but it happened. I also didn’t realise Perth had a tram system.

I also noted that the first newspaper in Perth was really inoffensive and impartial – this led to the repeated election of a Tory MP. It wasn’t until the founding of a new publication that questioned the politics of the day that this situation changed; unfortunately this was reversed with the founding of a new conservative newspaper.

There are some meteorites. One of them looks credible, the others look a bit odd – they consist of white chalky stuff, covered with a thin layer of black stuff. I’d like to know what the materials involved are.

I have a problem with taxidermy; however, I suppose that is preferable to caging animals. There are some examples of Scottish wildlife there to creep people out.

On the whole, Perth museum is rather good. I am quite envious of the nice areas of parkland in the town too, I think I could spend a day in the park reading or kicking a ball, it’s just not the same here.