Trains, planes and automobiles

Well, maybe not planes, but my journey back from work city to home involved a train, a bus and then another train and took forty minutes longer than it usually does. I think the most worrying parts of the journey were the several occasions when we (passengers on bus) thought the bus was going to [...]

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One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

Mr C has not seen the above film. I haven’t seen it for years, but I was reminded of it when we went to the Natural History Museum on Thursday. I’d never been there before. We went because we happened to be in the area for my pacemaker check at the hospital. It was fine [...]

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Steampunk

On another day in Oxford, we went to look at the Steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science. It was rather cool. We saw fascinating and sometimes disturbing examples of Steampunk art. All the exhibits were 3D objects made by various artists working in the Steampunk genre from various parts of the [...]

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More photos of Oxford

It is a horrible, grey and wet day here today. I think the weather is affecting my brain, so today’s offering will not contain many words, but will mainly made up of more photos of an also rather grey and dark Oxford.

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The Forest Fire

This is my favourite  painting in the Ashmolean Museum. I saw it again and realised why I like it so much. It’s because the bears look really cheesed off:
I know I shouldn’t like to see the poor bears looking so fed up, but their facial expressions are just so good. They really convey how tired [...]

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The Ashmolean Museum revisited

We’ve just spent a couple of days in Oxford. Most of yesterday was taken up with visiting the redeveloped Ashmolean Museum. I liked what they’ve done to the place. The beauty of the building is still there, but it’s easier to see everything and you feel a bit less like you’re going from room to [...]

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When a [wo]man is tired of London [s]he is tired of life (?)

I think I agree with Oscar Wilde to a certain extent, although I’m not sure how I would actually like to live in London and to be in such a busy place all the time. It might be a bit much.  However, I like going to London and being in London. I like the [...]

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A Sunday stroll in Kensington Gardens

Last weekend we went to stay with friends in London. I went on a short walk around Kensington Gardens and took some photographs. It was a really hot day and there were a lot of people around. The formal gardens were lovely – I’d never seen them before  and neither had my friend, despite the [...]

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The delights of rail travel

I’m afraid this post is just a rant in a-probably-not-very-convincing disguise.
This month, my monthly season ticket went up by £13.oo something. I believe this is an increase of approximately 8%. It now costs about 15% of my monthly salary (before tax, etc.) Since the increase in the ticket price my train has been an hour [...]

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The sink and other Viking-related things

The sink in the picture is in the toilets at the Viking Museum at Borg on the Lofoten Islands in Norway. I took a photo of it because it was the biggest handbasin I’ve ever seen. Much more interestingly, the museum includes a reconstruction of a Viking hall. Unsurprisingly, it reminded me a lot of the kingdom [...]

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