I love Doctor Who, it is my favourite tv show of all time and today I managed to combine that love with my work at the Baths.
Part of my duties working at the Baths is to give guided tours around the Roman part of the museum. This can seem a little scary at first but its actually really good fun. I've been quite lucky in that I've normally only had small groups and you can just chat to them easily. I haven't had any kids on my tours before, which I've always found annoying and recently I had been planning on how to make my tour interesting and kid-friendly, and I thought, why not use Doctor Who! And today, I finally managed to do this!
I was very lucky in making this work as it was an American family, and I know Doctor Who has become relatively big out there but I wasn't sure quite sure if they would like it. So I started my tour off by asking them if they knew Doctor Who, expecting, but dreading, deadpan and confused faces but no, the kids shot up going 'yeah!! I do!!!' And the teenage daughter promptly went bright red as her Dad said how much she loved the Doctor too. I was in for a winner!
I won't bore you with details of my tour, you'll just have to come visit for that, but as a taster you get to travel back in time in the tardis and travel round the baths! Ingenious right?! But the family loved it and they even tipped me which I was highly embarrassed and grateful for, so the staff room will be getting cakes tomorrow!
It also led to me and Rosa, a fellow VSA, creating an ever complicating Dr who episode plot set in the baths, where all the VSAs were being mind controlled by a kracken like beast under the baths and the mind control beacon was in the world heritage symbol on top of the audioguide box, and the Doctor, of course, had to save bath, and us, from being destroyed by an evil Roman alien thing... Look out Dr Who producers, me and Rosa are coming for your jobs!
Laters!
Part of my duties working at the Baths is to give guided tours around the Roman part of the museum. This can seem a little scary at first but its actually really good fun. I've been quite lucky in that I've normally only had small groups and you can just chat to them easily. I haven't had any kids on my tours before, which I've always found annoying and recently I had been planning on how to make my tour interesting and kid-friendly, and I thought, why not use Doctor Who! And today, I finally managed to do this!
I was very lucky in making this work as it was an American family, and I know Doctor Who has become relatively big out there but I wasn't sure quite sure if they would like it. So I started my tour off by asking them if they knew Doctor Who, expecting, but dreading, deadpan and confused faces but no, the kids shot up going 'yeah!! I do!!!' And the teenage daughter promptly went bright red as her Dad said how much she loved the Doctor too. I was in for a winner!
I won't bore you with details of my tour, you'll just have to come visit for that, but as a taster you get to travel back in time in the tardis and travel round the baths! Ingenious right?! But the family loved it and they even tipped me which I was highly embarrassed and grateful for, so the staff room will be getting cakes tomorrow!
It also led to me and Rosa, a fellow VSA, creating an ever complicating Dr who episode plot set in the baths, where all the VSAs were being mind controlled by a kracken like beast under the baths and the mind control beacon was in the world heritage symbol on top of the audioguide box, and the Doctor, of course, had to save bath, and us, from being destroyed by an evil Roman alien thing... Look out Dr Who producers, me and Rosa are coming for your jobs!
Laters!
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