Just a plug: the Birmingham Sealife Centre is great.
Went there with my mother and son last year, had a wonderful time looking at the fishies and lobsters. They have a wonderful '4-D' show too, where you appear to swim under the sea and are sprayed with water. All good fun.

However, the most amazing bit for me was the Mirror Maze. It's nothing to do with the sea, just a, well, a maze made of mirrors.

You can peep round a corner and see a crowd of yourself peeping back, and if you pick your spot you can stand behind yourself and watch yourself walking away from yourself.

'Tis sorcerie, I tell'ee!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 13:56, 11 replies)

the blackpool one is good, too
i pissed the guide off by asking loads of questions about sharks that he couldn't asnswer!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 14:20, closed)

Next time I'm in a hall of mirrors I'm going to ask the attendant all about pollock.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 18:11, closed)

You've deliberately misunderstood, for comic effect.
You horrible bully.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 20:52, closed)

Yes yes yes.
But what about the pollock? What about the pollock?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 9:23, closed)

Last time I was in Tesco
The man behind the fish counter dropped a tray of fish with much clattering and oaths. I explained to the queue that he had dropped a pollock.

He looked ever so cross.
(richardm, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 11:14, closed)

Ask me
ask me ask me!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 19:02, closed)

Why is pollock so ugly and yet so delicious?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 19:31, closed)

Am I the only one...
who misread walking as something else?
(anonymousreality tickled your fancy on, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 1:27, closed)

That's another possibility, I s'pose,
thought you'd have to find a more satisfying angle to watch from.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 9:03, closed)

Pollock are ugly from all angles.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 9:53, closed)

I dont think that was water they sprayed
it was probably someone in the mirror maze as you say - 'walking away from yourself'

I too - misread that bit.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 17:05, closed)