[Sca-cooks] OT: Visiting London

[Kathleen A Roberts]

when we went (oh, ten years ago - 3 weeks ireland, 1 week 
england) the Leeds Armory Museum was still fairly new, and 
incredibly impressive.  they had men doing little 
in-character monologues of what their weapon-involved 
lives were...  Hoplite warrior, two 14th cent soldiers 
doing real warhammer fight, WW2 Russian sniper.  they 
talked with you afterward.  it was fascinating  even let 
dear heart snoop over their armor and take pictures after. 
 if you wanted to know, they were happy to show or tell 
you.

the british library let me stay the day and sketch 
manuscript pages and press my nose against all the glass, 
and were very apologetic that "ms. backhouse was not there 
to chat with me about the book" (lindesfarne gospel - a 
special scribal interest of mine).  she'd gone on a trip 
the day before we arrived.

obligatory food content:  don't order potatoes in london. 
 it's a crime what they did to them when we were there. 
 ;)

cailte
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Kathleen Roberts
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