Traves Tangents

On Saturday I fulfilled a long held ambition, and went on a trip to Reading Museum . Why Reading Museum you ask? I see the full sized replica of the Bayeux Tapestry . The story of how the replica came to be made is great fun:  https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/history-britains-bayeux-tapestry , and is crying out for a film treatment of some kind... It has bustles, Victorian business acumen, and censorship (and Staffordshire accents which Isn't very Hollywood I guess). The chaps at the British Museum who supplied the photos to the lady embroiderers turned the horses into geldings, and gave various nude men little shorts. Unlike the the original, you have plenty of time to linger, and enjoy all the little details.... ...so many lovely little critters... ...and as a friend pointed out, one of the earliest depictions of mobile 'phone use :-) The museum also houses some nice Roman bits and pieces, included this lovely world, weary bronze eagle from Silchester. It's said to be t...

My lovely friend Christopher collected pigs of all kinds. When his husband asked if I’d like one to remember him by I choose this little chap. I used to annoy Christopher, by arranging his other pigs as if they were listening to him. I said that he was a political agitator, inciting them to sedition. Christopher would get quite cross, and tell me that he was reading them a bedtime story. Given there’s a little picture of a desert island, I think he must be reading ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’, and Christopher knew his pigs best of course. Love you so much Christopher 🐖❤️🐖