Out And About.

[mongers]

Went to the museum by bike, to help finish off the 'decanting'/emptying of the stone,bronze,iron age and Pitt-Rivers* galleries, in preparation for the big rebuild/redesign. 

I happened to be the one to move the last object out of the galleries and into storage, guess what it was ?




* famous 19th century 'scientific' archaeologist.

[crazy canuck]

Did you move it back to your place?

[mongers]

Did you move it back to your place?

You've guessed haven't you?



Yes, bizarrely it was a bicycle.

Why was it at a primarily archaeological museum ? I think it was part of a display about him being a philanthropist and creating leisure gardens for his workers, so was part of the collection his family donated to the museum. Otherwise an entirely unremarkable Victorian safety bicycle which will hopefully not go on display again and will find a home elsewhere or be returned to Oxford ?

[crazy canuck]

Did you move it back to your place?

You've guessed haven't you?



Yes, bizarrely it was a bicycle.

Why was it at a primarily archaeological museum ? I think it was part of a display about him being a philanthropist and creating leisure gardens for his workers, so was part of the collection his family donated to the museum. Otherwise an entirely unremarkable Victorian safety bicycle which will hopefully not go on display again and will find a home elsewhere or be returned to Oxford ?

But did you make the switch and leave your bike in its place?

[mongers]

Did you move it back to your place?

You've guessed haven't you?



Yes, bizarrely it was a bicycle.

Why was it at a primarily archaeological museum ? I think it was part of a display about him being a philanthropist and creating leisure gardens for his workers, so was part of the collection his family donated to the museum. Otherwise an entirely unremarkable Victorian safety bicycle which will hopefully not go on display again and will find a home elsewhere or be returned to Oxford ?

But did you make the switch and leave your bike in its place?

What swap a nice new, useful folding bike for a fairly common old Victorian safety bike that's worth at best 200-300 dollars   

[crazy canuck]

Sell Out!

[mongers]

OK what's up with my point and shoot camera, it seem to be producing odd looking pictures:

[Tonitrus]

The color saturation looks a little high, but otherwise fine.

[mongers]

Didn't go anywhere today, just 14 miles up valley in the late evening light, no one around save for me and the usual horses,donkeys and cattle, on the back roads.

Spent most of the afternoon sorting out the garden, 'recycling' and repairing 10 punctures/innertubes !

[mongers]

Nice sunny afternoon out in Dorset today, glad all the trees are finally out:








Guess who built this road, or at least the alignment it rests on.:



Lots of white puffy clouds about today:

[The Brain]

Poles?

[MadImmortalMan]

I guess Romans.

[mongers]

I guess Romans.

Yes, another bunch of migrants come here to steal 'our jobs' 

[PDH]

no mountains

[garbon]

It was so nice in the city today that I decided to walk along the westside. Ended up making it down to whitehall terminal - so google informs me my walk was over 3 miles long.

I also saw a bunch of palm trees going indoors which apparently is the winter garden atrium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Garden_Atrium