A Week Already.

Early breakfast and out to London with Sarah. She went off to work, I posted a few cards and headed off to the British Museum. China's Terracotta Army was all booked up so I went for a wander and happened upon a small collection of clocks, the earliest dating from the middle of the 15th Century. The craftsmanship displayed was superb. The various measures taken to keep pendulums swinging correctly were ingenious. It was a strange contrast to see man's first attempt at tools in a small display of early axe heads and scrapers. a room full of displays of fossills and rocks left one in awe of early collectors of such material. they often did not know what they'd found but recognised it as important, leaving later workers to sort out what it all meant.
At lunchtime I caught up with an old schoolmate, Phil Jackson, who I hadn't seen for 36 years.( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413946/) We chatted for four hours about the stuff we'd done together as young lads and about all that had happened since. It was good to meet again after all this time and find that we'd developed similar tastes and similar opinions.
Home to enjoy chinese cuisine, delivered to the door. Sarah went for a run.