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julietYesterday morning was lovely, if sodding cold (last week it stopped being fingerless cycling gloves weather & started being big thick skigloves weather; yesterday was the first morning that I began the annual Contemplation of Earmuffs[0]). This morning: unpleasant & soggy. Which also meant that the flames that I saw yesterday morning, on top of the pillars (with the name of various Commonwealth/former Empire countries written on them) at the top of Constitution Hill, had gone out this morning. I presume they were Remembrance Day related. Certainly v pretty while they lasted.
My weekend was spend in Manchester, visiting Richard. Much fun was had, including vegan beer, lovely vegan breakfast on Sunday, this on Sat afternoon (may not be WS depending on your work, contains Rude Words but no pictures) a visit to the Imperial War Museum in Salford, which is excellent. The building itself is amazing, and the space inside is used very well as well. I liked their hourly "360-degree shows" in the main exhibition space, where they project photos over all the walls (and there are lots of oddly-angled internal walls) and run the presentation through speakers. V noisy; which is probably right and appropriate, as I imagine war is pretty noisy.
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dogrando & I were saying yesterday, sounds like it might be a bad thing ("Imperial" has bad connotations for me, I think) but is in fact a good thing. They had some ration-books from 1918, & there was an ad on the back from the newly-formed IWM appealing for donations, in particular for their collection about women's contributions to the war.
Saturday night was spent, as is traditional, in Richard & I drinking beer for 5 hrs & playing The Greatest Song Ever Written. The thing about TGSEW is that it changes about, ooh, every 3.5min, on average. There may also have been singing.
So yes, splendid weekend, & lovely to see Rich & Alison, but now I am back at WERK & this week is not going so well :-/ Tonight I plan to have a QNI; wasn't really on form last night atkitty_goth's fundraising pub quiz, although we *did* come joint first.
[0] During the winter, I spend about the first 10-15 min of my commute thinking about JUST HOW COLD my ears are, & wondering about buying earmuffs (after the first 10-15 min they've gone numb so I forget about it after that, occupied as I am with the business of Not Getting Squished). A hat doesn't do, as the top of my head is warm enough & experience indicates that a hat makes it too warm. However, it occurred to me yesterday that in fact earmuffs are prob a non-starter, as they'd block sound enough to be dangerous, if only slightly. I shall have to continue suffering. Or knit an ear-band (like a headband but round the ears!) which would let more sound through.
My weekend was spend in Manchester, visiting Richard. Much fun was had, including vegan beer, lovely vegan breakfast on Sunday, this on Sat afternoon (may not be WS depending on your work, contains Rude Words but no pictures) a visit to the Imperial War Museum in Salford, which is excellent. The building itself is amazing, and the space inside is used very well as well. I liked their hourly "360-degree shows" in the main exhibition space, where they project photos over all the walls (and there are lots of oddly-angled internal walls) and run the presentation through speakers. V noisy; which is probably right and appropriate, as I imagine war is pretty noisy.
The Imperial War Museum, as
dogrando & I were saying yesterday, sounds like it might be a bad thing ("Imperial" has bad connotations for me, I think) but is in fact a good thing. They had some ration-books from 1918, & there was an ad on the back from the newly-formed IWM appealing for donations, in particular for their collection about women's contributions to the war. Saturday night was spent, as is traditional, in Richard & I drinking beer for 5 hrs & playing The Greatest Song Ever Written. The thing about TGSEW is that it changes about, ooh, every 3.5min, on average. There may also have been singing.
So yes, splendid weekend, & lovely to see Rich & Alison, but now I am back at WERK & this week is not going so well :-/ Tonight I plan to have a QNI; wasn't really on form last night at
kitty_goth's fundraising pub quiz, although we *did* come joint first.[0] During the winter, I spend about the first 10-15 min of my commute thinking about JUST HOW COLD my ears are, & wondering about buying earmuffs (after the first 10-15 min they've gone numb so I forget about it after that, occupied as I am with the business of Not Getting Squished). A hat doesn't do, as the top of my head is warm enough & experience indicates that a hat makes it too warm. However, it occurred to me yesterday that in fact earmuffs are prob a non-starter, as they'd block sound enough to be dangerous, if only slightly. I shall have to continue suffering. Or knit an ear-band (like a headband but round the ears!) which would let more sound through.
