Saturday. An eating and laundry day, as well as visits to libraries. Not the BM.

But…. Rain. Today and supposedly tomorrow. Glorious rain.

First, breakfast a Fisher’s. An Austrian Konditori with outstanding food and service. We have eaten here before as has Bobby. Reservations, even for Brekki.

This is the third Sunday in September. 250 buildings are opened for public viewings.

We started, late, and went first to the Linnaeus society at the Burlington house.

Meeting room with original portrait.

Usual story, Charles II is King, 50 year old married 18 year old beauty and builds her a house. She becomes mistress to Duke of York, dies mysteriously, poison suspected, not proven. Later, many decades later, gets name of Burlington house.

Library of the society. Suspect our librarian readers will not have seen this place.

Cataloguing, as I am sure they would wish to know, is UDC.

Old and new books. Very different security.

Took far too long and far too much effort.

Fabulous handwritten record keeping in copperplate script. 1903. Well after the medieval manuscript scribes passed.

The chemistry library, different and quite interesting building within the complex, was not worth the pixels to capture.

Another fine dinner. Kieran, JD’s brother joined. Visiting from Cork. JD apparently slept through dinner. No one woke him up.

Home made wontons, Chinese chicken wings, Kim chi, doombar beer.