A rainy day in London……..

………beats a fine day in a lot of places. London has so many things to visit (especially on a rainy day)………We have Sarah, Alan and Molly staying at the moment and so we initially decided to go to Kew Gardens (more about that later)…..however, it wasn’t a good day for Kew, so we opted for the National Museum. Such is the collection that you can really only do ‘one room’ properly per visit. We decided to do ‘Celtic & Saxon Britain’ but on the way there, Rod & I got waylaid by the Aztec’s – those guys were so clever (not clever enough to survive tho!!!!), their art is still very relevant today. The round thing (like a lavvy seat) is a type of basketball hoop. Apparently the game was played all day, the ball going through the hoop to score and at the end of the day for the honor of winning you got sacrificed to some god or other, no wonder it took all day to score!!! Yay! We finally extricated ourselves from the Azetcs and reached our goal of Celtic & Saxon Britain, Rod is holding a silver dish from that era, this particular dish was discovered in the 1990’s by a guy with one of those metal detectors – those sort of people are still finding buried ‘hoards’ all over Britain from time to time - I want to find a hoard!!!!! Lots of love xxxxxxxx