A V&A regular is heading for the British Museum for a change
Off the V&A again today, to meet friends and generally hang out. I was a little taken aback when the man checking bags at the door said “Do you come here a lot? You look familiar” Busted. If they charged admission, I’d have a season ticket. We looked at the new Renaissance wing again, had some delicious carrot and parsnip soup for lunch and pottered about in the fashion section (cue an extended rhapsody about the old Biba store on Kensington High Street from me and Mona, while Derya, who is way to young to remember it and wasn’t living here anyway, looked on bewildered).
Listening to the excellent BBC/British Museum history series, A History of the World in 100 Objects, I remembered that I have a nice little polished greenstone hand axe at home, rather similar to the
beautiful jade one they showed, so I decided to take it in to see if I can find out more about it. I think it originally belonged to my father, and came with the collection of oddments I retrieved from my parents’ house in Dublin when my mother died, but I have no idea where he got it from. A quick Google found a couple with a similar shape from Ireland, so I suppose one of my builder cousins may have dug it up. Anyway, I’ll head down to the BM tomorrow afternoon to see if I can find out some more about it, and maybe see some of the other objects from the series.
Listening to the excellent BBC/British Museum history series, A History of the World in 100 Objects, I remembered that I have a nice little polished greenstone hand axe at home, rather similar to the
beautiful jade one they showed, so I decided to take it in to see if I can find out more about it. I think it originally belonged to my father, and came with the collection of oddments I retrieved from my parents’ house in Dublin when my mother died, but I have no idea where he got it from. A quick Google found a couple with a similar shape from Ireland, so I suppose one of my builder cousins may have dug it up. Anyway, I’ll head down to the BM tomorrow afternoon to see if I can find out some more about it, and maybe see some of the other objects from the series.