Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

the foundling museum is a great idea - and if you're a Harry Potter fan, you might recognize the square it's in
edited to add a link to a page about the square and the people who've passed through, which also has something on the foundling estate
https://www.goodenough.ac.uk/student-life/life-at-gc/members-blog/the-bloomsbury-set/

On the medical theme, besides the physic garden, there is the old operating theatre near Southwark cathedral https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/ which is a faintly macabre sort of interesting

If you like art, the Courtauld has a good collection, https://courtauld.ac.uk/

A Shakespeare play in English will be a extremely hard nut to crack for both of us. Our English isnt that good.

I can assure you that native speakers struggle with it too! And I quite understand if you want to skip. The real value of seeing a performance at the Globe is to experience the scale and intimacy. It's not as if we don't all know what happens in the plot; they're not new stories The acting and costumes are usually first class.

 

[BDutch]

Thank you all for the tips. Sadly the weather forecast is not pleasant. I added the Tate Modern to my list. Havent been there before because the company I was in was more interested in the other famous museums and things to do. They sure have a superior collection of modern and contemporary paintings/statues.

It's not as if we don't all know what happens in the plot; they're not new stories The acting and costumes are usually first class.

Shakespeare is not something we all learn in NL at school like the British . If you like first class costumes and upper class manhood/feminism through history I recommend the new film release of Orlando (Virginia Woolf) . It’s a peculiar story and a real eye catcher I enjoyed to see in the Cinema last Sunday.

My wonderful neighbours will look after the chickens during our trip.

 

[Shadrach]

Happy to write I don't know much about London these days.

 

[Shadrach]

A dry day. The ground looks less saturated and the run is less muddy.
Digs comb was a mess again.

 

[Shadrach]

Thank you all for the tips. Sadly the weather forecast is not pleasant. I added the Tate Modern to my list. Havent been there before because the company I was in was more interested in the other famous museums and things to do. They sure have a superior collection of modern and contemporary paintings/statues.


Shakespeare is not something we all learn in NL at school like the British . If you like first class costumes and upper class manhood/feminism through history I recommend the new film release of Orlando (Virginia Woolf) . It’s a peculiar story and a real eye catcher I enjoyed to see in the Cinema last Sunday.

My wonderful neighbours will look after the chickens during our trip.

I was going to suggest you visited Pollocks Toy Museam but like a lot of things I remember in London, they've been squeezed out by stupid rents and a shortage of funds.

https://www.pollockstoymuseum.co.uk/latest-news

 

[kcan2]

A great shot of Mow as a one-legged pillow! Glad you had a dry day. Oh, Dig

 

[MrsNorthie]

It was dismal here too. We were going to go to an Antiques Fair at the National Botanic Garden, but it was too cold and wet to make even that a sufficient temptation to drag us out. The chickens here bear it with remarkable fortitude I think. They just cuddle up round the doors and logpile, all under cover and sheltered from most of the wind, and wait till it brightens up, whereupon they're straight off to forage for as long as they've got till the next shower arrives, when they run back, and repeat.

My crazy Buffs don't seem to care if it is raining, they go out and scratch and forage even in torrential rains.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Happy to write I don't know much about London these days.

There was a lot I wanted to see in London, but opted to get out as quickly as we could and spent most of our time exploring North Yorkshire in and around Whitby (Nov/December so very few tourists.) Since my husband was born and brought up in London, he was happy that I abandoned my desire to explore. It is not the city he grew up in, and is way too peopley.

 

[MaryJanet]

the foundling museum is a great idea - and if you're a Harry Potter fan, you might recognize the square it's in
edited to add a link to a page about the square and the people who've passed through, which also has something on the foundling estate
https://www.goodenough.ac.uk/student-life/life-at-gc/members-blog/the-bloomsbury-set/

On the medical theme, besides the physic garden, there is the old operating theatre near Southwark cathedral https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/ which is a faintly macabre sort of interesting

If you like art, the Courtauld has a good collection, https://courtauld.ac.uk/


I can assure you that native speakers struggle with it too! And I quite understand if you want to skip. The real value of seeing a performance at the Globe is to experience the scale and intimacy. It's not as if we don't all know what happens in the plot; they're not new stories The acting and costumes are usually first class.

The Courtauld was the first London gallery I ever visited and Goodenough College is where I stay when passing through it's cheap by London standards and perfectly comfy for a short stay.

 

[MaryJanet]

Thank you all for the tips. Sadly the weather forecast is not pleasant. I added the Tate Modern to my list. Havent been there before because the company I was in was more interested in the other famous museums and things to do. They sure have a superior collection of modern and contemporary paintings/statues.


Shakespeare is not something we all learn in NL at school like the British . If you like first class costumes and upper class manhood/feminism through history I recommend the new film release of Orlando (Virginia Woolf) . It’s a peculiar story and a real eye catcher I enjoyed to see in the Cinema last Sunday.

My wonderful neighbours will look after the chickens during our trip.

I always see something new when I visit the Tate Modern.

I had no idea Orlando had been re-made! I loved the Sally Potter version.