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Blaschka Glass Models of Flowers, Marine Invertebrates et al ... 27 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
As I mentioned in my previous post the glass flowers I had seen at Harvard in 1976 had always held a sway in my memory ... they were dusty ... but oh so accurate and quite quite extraordinary ... and ...
Grant Museum of Zoology ... Creepy Crawlies, Slippery Slitheries, cabinets of curiosities and odd oddities ... 21 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
This is where the world of Thomas Huxley (grandfather to Julian, Aldous and Andrew), Damien Hirst, glass models, slices and slides are gathered – it would be one horrendous, smelly, gory, bone shatter...
Time travel anyone? Zoology, Ancient Egypt, Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham, John Betjeman at the Quadriga, Dutch Art and Music at the National Gallery ... 18 Aug 2013 | 04:28 pm
The aim of my journey was to see the Lindisfarne Gospels, Europe’s oldest surviving bound book on loan to from the British Library, in London, which has been incorporated into an exhibition celebratin...
Anti Blog Gary Fest .... bungee jumping, spam, word verification ... 12 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
Which way round should this be? Anti Gary Blog Fest, Anti Blogfest Gary ... just an anti A-Z for Gary who prefers to start backwards ... and in some ways I agree with him ... 'nuff said! ... bu...
Glyndebourne – Opera – “Don Pasquale” by the sea ... 9 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
Travel with me to see an Opera in the 21st century ... broadcast to a big screen near you ... in this instance the art deco de la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, east of Eastbourne, half way to Hastings ......
Doors to the World, Art Nouveau in Brussels and a new Downland Beauty! 5 Aug 2013 | 12:29 am
Doors to the world ... the south coast of England looks towards Europe ... yet in those early centuries we were the last outpost, or the starting point in those early endeavours ... Doorway in art...
Money, Money, Money .. keeps the world going round – Women, Women, Women usually do too ... 30 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
The Queen appears on all our bank coinage and notes and is there on the basis of birthright, so whatever we think of her hard work, she’s not there on the basis of her achievements. The concept for t...
Royal Baby's ABCDEF and it's G for George ... 25 Jul 2013 | 01:59 pm
Here’s my take on the last few days ... When George V11 rules the waves ... possibly into the 2070s to 2080s The Announcement of the royal birth was made in edition number 60576 of The London Gazet....
Puppy Dogs’ Tails or Sugar and Spice ... then Downland Beauties ... 22 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
Which will you, HRH, be? This is a brief interim post before a slightly more interesting one, once the new baby has arrived later today or tomorrow ... also it gives me a few extra hours or days to ...
Stately Homes of England ... and Aristocratic Succession ... 19 Jul 2013 | 05:20 pm
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun ... Noel Coward who penned those words, also wrote a parody on ‘The Homes of England’ ... The Italianate Gardens, Bowood House, Wiltshire The poem b...
