Saturday Cool, very cool, barely hit 50 degrees F. Intermittent rain.
Breakfast, again, at Fishers. Great Grosti. Bobby indicates I must remind him to get this dish at next sitting.
Another and now we interrupt our regular programming with a question. This tree is in the local garden. Fruit looks like blueberries only smaller. Tree is about six feet tall. Anyone know what this is?
Back to regular programing.
Headed off to the British Library. Main exhibit is 5000 years of writing. Paid exhibit with some flaws that were noted by us participants: very little to nothing on ancient or development of Hebrew, querty keyboard not discussed in the section on typewriters, overall not as comprehensive as it could have been. Printing sections done well.
Again another expensive entry museum that does not permit photos. No digital version of the exhibit available, only a 10kg clay paper book, looks excellent.
Dinner at Le Vieux Comptoir. Another for our list of good ones. Very large portions, seem to specialize in cheese and wine.
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Sunday, a little warmer, day for a walk planned in Essex. JD and Bobby were to join. Starting from Waltham Abbey.
Alas it was not to be today. A toad got QB, she thinks the French were trying to poison her. Expedition postponed for much needed rest. The George-QB travel toad alignment continues unbroken.
Toad breaking breakfast plus mine. Bok Choi at Selfridges with it fine tea, a favorite blend of ours.
Exhibit at the RA, Renaissance Nudes.
The first surprise was the Pope Pius IV covered some of the nudes in the Sistine Chapel
Two pieces of Saint Stephans with only one arrow. In Spain we always, as best as I can remember, saw him with 7 arrows.
A particularly interesting display showed two very similar looking books of hours. Each had a vibrant colored Bathsheba. In one she is clothed, in the other nude. Apparently there were separate versions for men and women. Never heard of this before.
A Titian that I have not seen before, located in Edinburgh. Venus emerging from the water. The reflection has been added as a bonus. Impressive up close. QB passed on the exhibit.
Dinner a picnic in the room.
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Might the berries be black currants?
Too bad about the toad… must be sent back to Toad Hall, where he belongs.
Jerome sent me this note: The leaf looks like a White Mulberry but the fruit is the other, a Black Mulberry. Apparently, the black ones grow better in the UK.
Maybe an elderberry?
Jerome, a friend from earlier days in Palo Alto and a close friend of Libby’s sent me this note: The leaf looks like a White Mulberry but the fruit is the other, a Black Mulberry. Apparently, the black ones grow better in the UK.
Not Mulberry; the clusters are about 3 inches round. Mulberry are oblong and like a blackberry in structure. These berries were clustered but discrete spheres each with a thick skin like a blueberry. Also the leaves are quite different.
So, you mention what they are not. But… what are they then?