So we spent most of yesterday pottering around the various museum shops in central London; Natural History Museum, Science Museum, British Museum, with a side trip onto Tottenham Court Road to try to source some PC odds and sods and also a visit to the Virgin Megastore to browse the DVDs.
The museum shops were fairly fruitful, though I dare say the young lady who was frantically hunting for a box so that we could buy the display copy of a particular item would have preferred we went elsewhere (in the end, we did, since she couldn't find the box -- but we did buy some other items anyhow). Virgin also didn't let me down -- I said to
Tottenham Court Road was amusing. Generally if you know what you're looking for (as far as computing, hi-fi or mobile phones go), you can get a good price on it there. We wanted a DVD-writer (as a present for someone who I know doesn't read LJ), some gender-changers for monitor cables, and I thought I might pick up the scanner I'd been looking at (
Today we went out to look for the last few requirements for