It was a tad foggy when we set out this morning but as we were heading
for a gallery we weren’t worried. A while ago we went to an exhibition at The
Queens Gallery, of photographs from Scott and Shackelton’s expedition to the
the south pole. Attending that gives us yearlong tickets to other exhibitions
at the gallery. So today it was to the Da Vinci anatomical drawings, which is apparently
the largest ever exhibition of them. We had to book a time in, which gave us three
quarters of an hour to wander around the streets and look at some interesting architecture.
I think the one thing about the drawings that impressed me the most was
the intricacy of the small diagrams. I thought that the sketches would be much larger;
many of the pages would have only been A5 size. Of course there were larger
ones, but the intricate drawings and descriptions in Da Vinci’s mirror writing
were a work in progress for a much more ambitious book about human anatomy.
We popped across the road to Hyde Park to have out lunch, making our way
around barriers that are already diverting traffic for the Jubilee Celebrations
due in a couple of weeks . In the area in front of Buck House stands are being
put up, like the ones for the wedding year or so ago.
After lunch we walked back to Victoria station and hopped on a train to
Alperton where we had a nice peaceful walk along part of Grand Union canal.
There were a few longboats, some in much better repair than others and a few
very obviously lived in full time. At one stretch a pair of swans and their cygnets
had settled on the side of the path for an afternoon rest. We very gingerly
edged our way around the family group keeping a close eye on the adults who in
turn were keeping a close eye on us. What did surprise us was the number of
coconuts that were floating in the water, The Man spotted at least seven of
them. The water appeared not to be flowing, in fact in some places it looked
very murky and we saw the bodies of several dead carp, which might be an indication
that the water quality was not so good. A
couple of miles further along we turned off and found our way to a tube station
to make out way back home.
On the way down through the
park in the morning we discovered that later in the day there would be an
influx of little cars preparing for tomorrows Mini London to Brighton run. So
on our way home we walked back up through the park to admire them
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