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Still here, still doing well.
Husband and I hit the National Gallery and took in "Art with a capital A" until we thought our feet might fall off. We saw some gorgeous paintings, some of which were new to me and some of which I'd seen in books and posters. The Van Goghs and Monets were lovely and I was awed by the Botticellis and Rubens'. Husband and I had a lot of fun looking at the portraits and making inappropriate comments like "Bet they got a lot of tail" at a painting of very smug looking young men, circa 1600-something. - Van Dyke
The next day we went to the Natural History Museum, which was amazing. We started with dinosaurs and ended with man's evolution. In addition to all that cool life science, the building itself was beautiful, with cool little designs of snakes and lions and flowers and monkeys in the archways. It was fantastic, although by the end of seven hours, we simply gave up and promised we'd come back again someday rather than keep trying to see everything. Oh, and there ws ice skating outside! Neat!
The next day we hooked up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarka and lured her into our tiny flat. Mostly we've just wandered and hung out, although yesterday we invaded the Bourough Markets and bought a lot of cheese and beer and weird foods to try, like pork-belly sandwiches and crumbly fudge and turkish delight that doesn't taste foul. I also developed a cold and have been a bit drained of energy, so we're taking it easy.
It hasn't rained on us yet. I have, however, had to re-sew buttons on my coat *twice*. Clearly they were meant to be more decorative than functional. Feh.
Also, I've read Laurie King's "Justice Hall" and Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and have loved both. I forgot how much I'd missed reading books.
Lastly, my J2 fic? Outlined, but not really coming along very quickly otherwise. I hope to make more progress this week; I'm maybe 1/5th done. I have faith though, since I'm feeling better today and a healthy Salix is a horny Salix is a slashy-writing Salix. ;)
More later!
Husband and I hit the National Gallery and took in "Art with a capital A" until we thought our feet might fall off. We saw some gorgeous paintings, some of which were new to me and some of which I'd seen in books and posters. The Van Goghs and Monets were lovely and I was awed by the Botticellis and Rubens'. Husband and I had a lot of fun looking at the portraits and making inappropriate comments like "Bet they got a lot of tail" at a painting of very smug looking young men, circa 1600-something. - Van Dyke
The next day we went to the Natural History Museum, which was amazing. We started with dinosaurs and ended with man's evolution. In addition to all that cool life science, the building itself was beautiful, with cool little designs of snakes and lions and flowers and monkeys in the archways. It was fantastic, although by the end of seven hours, we simply gave up and promised we'd come back again someday rather than keep trying to see everything. Oh, and there ws ice skating outside! Neat!
The next day we hooked up with
sarka and lured her into our tiny flat. Mostly we've just wandered and hung out, although yesterday we invaded the Bourough Markets and bought a lot of cheese and beer and weird foods to try, like pork-belly sandwiches and crumbly fudge and turkish delight that doesn't taste foul. I also developed a cold and have been a bit drained of energy, so we're taking it easy.It hasn't rained on us yet. I have, however, had to re-sew buttons on my coat *twice*. Clearly they were meant to be more decorative than functional. Feh.
Also, I've read Laurie King's "Justice Hall" and Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and have loved both. I forgot how much I'd missed reading books.
Lastly, my J2 fic? Outlined, but not really coming along very quickly otherwise. I hope to make more progress this week; I'm maybe 1/5th done. I have faith though, since I'm feeling better today and a healthy Salix is a horny Salix is a slashy-writing Salix. ;)
More later!
