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curiouswombatDuring our brief stay in York I also spent a day in London - leaving S2C behind. You can do that sort of thing when you've been married as long as we have!
What was I doing in London? Meeting LJ People.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
just_ann_now was in the UK on a tour from her home in the US and a wee bunch of us all arranged to meet her, and each other, in the British Museum. And so I was on a very different train on the Thursday - the train from York to London only takes a couple of hours these days!
There were seven or eight of us - I've lost track - including not just Ann but alsokortirion, jay_of_lasgalen and azalaisdep. And we all got on immediately, as I had rather thought we might! Much fun and laughter over lunch - including gifts from Ann (I haven't dared start my book just yet - I need to get my Tolkien BigBang story finished and am afraid of being side-tracked!). then we set of on a quick tour of the museum before various people had to head of in various directions for trains and other things.
Ann's husband joined us when it was time for her to go - and somehow I forgot to pass him my camera to add to the others that he was kindly taking pics of us all with.
However - under the cut
We saw the Elgin marbles, and the Rosetta Stone, we saw Egyptians - including something that belonged to an Egyptian minor deity, or possibly priest, called Reg - I'm sure we did - I'm sure I didn't make that up! Did I?
Some of us had time to go and look at some of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon rooms - we saw the Sutton Hoo Helmet amongst other things, and some lovely bits of jewellery. There was a fascinating musical instrument that I really wish I'd taken a picture of - especially as I've forgotten what it was called - sort of violin-like with wonderful carving that spoke to me of Elves - or possibly the Rohirrim. Can you remember,azalaisdep?
But somehow I didn't take many pictures - apart from one of an Assyrian winged lion -
Yes - I know - their idea of a lion is not ours!
And some pictures of Assyrian wall reliefs -
I took that because he made me think of the phrase "A word in your shell-like..." He really does have a shell-like ear!
And these two are from a whole series dating to about 700BC about conquering people and then making an enormous statue of a bull to celebrate - there was more to it than that, but as I only took a couple of pictures further explanation seems overkill!
Talking of overkill - in this first one look at the bottom left - where the Assyrians are piling up the severed heads of their enemies -
Aren't the palm trees neat? And this shows a boat on a river - complete with fish. I wonder why I didn't take a bit that had a crab in it too? They were cute. There seems to be a rather plump man sitting in the stern, with some women in front of him, all being poled down the river by tall athletic men.
Thenazalaisdep and I turned a corner into one of the Egyptian rooms and there, facing us, quite high up on a wall, was this -
We both just stood and went "What on Earth...?"
I mean who are they? What are they doing? Why is there a very small one of them at the left?
They seem to be some sort of naked dwarves doing a ritualised dance that includes cutting their hair with their own sword... or possibly something totally different. Ideas people?
It was lovely to meet up with LJ people - we always know each other so well straight away.
Like when we meet up at our annual do in Coventry. As a committee member I feel it is perfectly reasonable for me to take this opportunity to pimp![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
writerconuk - meeting up in Coventry on the first weekend of August - provided enough people sign up...
PS - I'm busy because it's almost TT and I am making my usual industrial quantities of carrot cake to sell for/at church!
What was I doing in London? Meeting LJ People.
just_ann_now was in the UK on a tour from her home in the US and a wee bunch of us all arranged to meet her, and each other, in the British Museum. And so I was on a very different train on the Thursday - the train from York to London only takes a couple of hours these days!There were seven or eight of us - I've lost track - including not just Ann but also
kortirion, jay_of_lasgalen and azalaisdep. And we all got on immediately, as I had rather thought we might! Much fun and laughter over lunch - including gifts from Ann (I haven't dared start my book just yet - I need to get my Tolkien BigBang story finished and am afraid of being side-tracked!). then we set of on a quick tour of the museum before various people had to head of in various directions for trains and other things.Ann's husband joined us when it was time for her to go - and somehow I forgot to pass him my camera to add to the others that he was kindly taking pics of us all with.
However - under the cut
We saw the Elgin marbles, and the Rosetta Stone, we saw Egyptians - including something that belonged to an Egyptian minor deity, or possibly priest, called Reg - I'm sure we did - I'm sure I didn't make that up! Did I?
Some of us had time to go and look at some of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon rooms - we saw the Sutton Hoo Helmet amongst other things, and some lovely bits of jewellery. There was a fascinating musical instrument that I really wish I'd taken a picture of - especially as I've forgotten what it was called - sort of violin-like with wonderful carving that spoke to me of Elves - or possibly the Rohirrim. Can you remember,
azalaisdep?But somehow I didn't take many pictures - apart from one of an Assyrian winged lion -
Yes - I know - their idea of a lion is not ours!
And some pictures of Assyrian wall reliefs -
I took that because he made me think of the phrase "A word in your shell-like..." He really does have a shell-like ear!
And these two are from a whole series dating to about 700BC about conquering people and then making an enormous statue of a bull to celebrate - there was more to it than that, but as I only took a couple of pictures further explanation seems overkill!
Talking of overkill - in this first one look at the bottom left - where the Assyrians are piling up the severed heads of their enemies -
Aren't the palm trees neat? And this shows a boat on a river - complete with fish. I wonder why I didn't take a bit that had a crab in it too? They were cute. There seems to be a rather plump man sitting in the stern, with some women in front of him, all being poled down the river by tall athletic men.
Then
azalaisdep and I turned a corner into one of the Egyptian rooms and there, facing us, quite high up on a wall, was this - We both just stood and went "What on Earth...?"
I mean who are they? What are they doing? Why is there a very small one of them at the left?
They seem to be some sort of naked dwarves doing a ritualised dance that includes cutting their hair with their own sword... or possibly something totally different. Ideas people?
It was lovely to meet up with LJ people - we always know each other so well straight away.
Like when we meet up at our annual do in Coventry. As a committee member I feel it is perfectly reasonable for me to take this opportunity to pimp
writerconuk - meeting up in Coventry on the first weekend of August - provided enough people sign up...PS - I'm busy because it's almost TT and I am making my usual industrial quantities of carrot cake to sell for/at church!
