The Curator’s Egg

This rhyming stuff just seems to take over your mind - sort of like OCD - one just leads naturally on to another like ritual hand-washing.
And if you keep producing verses
Through toil, and tears, and sweat (and curses),
And sparks of inspiration too -
Though sadly these are all too few -
You’ll find, though it may seem [...]

So we are to have a new Statutory Performance Indicator for local authority museums. We are to replace the weird “% of museums supported by the authority which have full registration” (annoyingly just at the point where we achieved 100%) with measures of visitor numbers. Now for physical visitors that could be relatively easy - [...]