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... )

Yes, visible from all over is the lighthouse that inspired V Woolf. And the weather had been sufficiently variable hour by hour over the last day or so that one can quite see that it would be impossible to predict a day ahead whether the trip would be feasible.

All roads in St Ives appear to wind uphill all the way, yea, to the very end, ( Read more... )

Dept of vain adornment of the body and Middlemarch allusion.

These are not wonderful photos, but they may provide some idea:

( Necklace with codfish motif )

(It's quiet in here today... very quiet... too quiet...?)

via slemslempike. Not perhaps quite as bad as the poncey bookshelves people? Jury is out. Turn a Treasured Hardcover Book into a Picture Frame (the whole how-to tutorial: medical diagnosis here, blud thikt wiv cold). How about, let's not?

Books as makeshift bedside table is far from the ideal way to ( Read more... )

I was intrigued by this post by
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Today, in Venice, *RAIN*. Occasional outbreaks of chucking it down intersperse a general state of drizzle.

Not to mention, *COLD*.

However, sights have nonetheless been seen, starting with St Mark's. We got up specially early in the hopes of avoiding the massive queues across the Piazetta, but it was still straggling past Florian when we arrived, ( Read more... )

I posted recently something about the Great Tate Gallery Archives archive-corruption case (art forgery scammer playing a long game inserts documents into the archives to provide entirely spurious provenance records). Someone should write a book, and someone has: The Conman: How One Man Fooled the Modern Art Establishment by Laney Salisbury and Aly ( Read more... )

Today I hied me to the Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I foregathered with
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DAFFODILS!!!!

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Dept of Ugh just keeps on giving - received (twice over) in this morning's email:( Read more... )