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More fun (with skulls) in London
We just finished two consecutive day trips to London (Friday and yesterday) and I’m thoroughly tired, and full of undigested photos. This fellow, one of the few I have processed, is from the Egyptian mummification exhibit at the British Museum (Rooms 62 and 63).
On Friday we started down in Greenwich. It was our [...]
Posted in Art, Events, Family, Music, Photography, Sabbatical, Science, Travels Also tagged Art, British Library, British Museum, fun, history, museum, Music, my photography, theatre Comments closed
The things you learn on the Tube
After a long day of being cultural and scientific in London with Kildegaards a few weeks ago, we got on the Tube back to Liverpool Street and the train back to Colchester. Looking across into the next car on the Underground, I was surprised to learn that a volcano was expected to erupt in [...]
Posted in Events, Family, Mildly amusing, Photography, Travels Also tagged Friends, London Underground, my photography, news, public transport, Sabbatical Comments closed
Darwin, dinosaurs, and flesh-eating beetles!
I realize that I’m fashionably late for Darwin Day (12 Feb), but I offer cool-scary dinosaur skeletons and flesh-eating beetles in apology!
We were in London Friday to see the Kildegaards who (a) are friends of ours from Morris, (b) are living in Denmark this year on sabbatical, and (c) were in London for a week. [...]
Pigeon chaser
While we were in London, Sub-Evil Boy and I went out to Leicester Square early Saturday morning to get some cheap theatre tickets. We were there an hour before they opened, so we wandered around some, stumbling upon Trafalgar Square along the way. Standing in the square was the annual Xmas tree from [...]
Posted in Family, Photography, Sabbatical, Travels Also tagged birds, hawk, pigeons, Sabbatical, Trafalgar Square Comments closed
Divine cat (Ours never had a nose ring)
We’re back from an excellent little 24 hour whirlwind visit to the Mighty Metropolis aka London. Most of it was spent in the British Museum, where we had tickets to see the Chinese terra cotta army. No photos from that, but it was quite remarkable and absolutely worth it.
I took lots of photos [...]
Posted in Family, Photography, Sabbatical, Travels Also tagged British Museum, Family, Flickr, museum, Sabbatical Comments closed
Cool juxtapositions
On my Twitter stream this morning was this from kjell_:
“The disappearance of age-old pleasures and privileges is the first unmistakable sign of progress.” -Bernard Rudofsky
followed by this from Vaguery:
scanning an 1850 Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, just ’cause. And for the Agassiz
Of course it’s convenient that Vaguery’s Twitter things have a very high proportion of “scanning some [...]
Posted in Art, Events, Family Also tagged British Museum, Chinese terra cotta army, Friends, juxtaposition, museum, quotes, Twitter Comments closed
Another idiot with a dangerous weapon (a truck in this case)