We are currently at the train museum in Manchester. Ooh, that sounded like I meant, ‘Coming to you live from the Manchester Train Musuem!’ – there’s an example of words that have never been uttered. It is beautiful here, though, and I shouldn’t make fun. It’s actually called the Museum Of Science and Industry, or MOSI to those with a season ticket. (It’s free.)

The Museum is an historical celebration of the things that have been thought up, designed and engineered in Manchester. There are some pretty amazing examples – the first steam train (of a certain type I can’t remember), the first railway station that catered to passengers as well as cargo, engines, commercial computers. Huge planes, textile weaving machines – everything up until the discovery of graphene in 2010.

As impressive as it all is, I can’t tell you how much I really despise museums. Not the fact…