Dept of: sex in the archives: ‘Corrupting public morals?’ Fitzroy Square and queer desire: We know little about these individuals after this snapshot in time; after all, they were not famous, just working class men who dared to love and live their sexual lives fully.

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Dept of birds and beasts:
I though you weren't supposed to feed bread to the ( Read more... )

Honestly, I've no idea what's been up with Dutch Railways the last couple of days, but, seriously, AAAAAAAARGH.
So today we were going to do the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and some more general sightseeing before getting the train to Schipol.
This plan was somewhat stymied by my pulling a muscle (or one that I pulled some while ago ( Read more... )

Honestly, where do I begin with the museum that was pitched as being about the suffrage movement and women's history in the East End, and turns out, just before opening, to be about Jack the Ripper? I think I will just direct you to
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Because we had an evening flight home, we were able to do the Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, and the Pinakothek der Moderne before Stendhaling out, overdosed on art and with weary legs.
The Lenbachhaus has the world's largest collection of the Blauer Reiter group - while Kandinsky may be Da Man! he was part of a really vibrant group of fellow artists.
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Hotel is quite good, but the WiFi is a bit flakey, and why do hotels have, in their breakfast buffet, really tasteless mixed fruit salad, &/or unripe 'fresh' fruit?
It's all pretty much about the Art: why Munich now was pretty much because Bellotto exhibition at the Alte Pinkotek, as partner is v keen on Bellotto, the nephew of Canaletto, and ( Read more... )

These are the ones where my camera battery was rapidly expiring, and several were taken on my phone instead.

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Nice meal last night - spaaaaaaaargel!!!! - though would have been nicer without the lengthy hiatus between starter and main. In a slightly odd large keller-space, which included at one end a carousel thing slowly revolving with what appeared to be a Dance of Death motif. Also waitstaff in ye trad dress and musicians making the rounds with (we ( Read more... )

We are in Dresden - sweltering yesterday evening when we arrived but thunderstorm last night seems to have cleared the air and today is just pleasantly warm with a breeze.

So far we have done the two main churches - and I now discover that Lutheran can do completely OTT baroque, at least, we gather that the altar of the reconstructed Frauernkirche ( Read more... )

Another thing I've been brooding over about the 'let the children run wild and explore nature' question is thinking about that in the context of my post about visiting the Museum of Childhood and this
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Dept of did she actually say that: Expression employed by one of the trainers at the gym during the week: 'I've got a memory like a fish'. I've never heard that before and am not sure whether it's an idiom I just hadn't encountered, based on what I believe researchers have proved is a scurrilous myth about goldfish and their memories, or whether it ( Read more... )