Off in the morning to the Science Museum by bus. We got off by the Albert Memorial and the Albert Hall. Here's my terrible picture of the memorial and what it really looks like!
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| Hand shaking.... |
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| James Lovelock |
At the Science Museum we saw an exhibition about James Lovelock, a scientific colleague and friend of Peter's. He's one of the originators of the
Gaia hypothesis. He spent some of his early years in a flat above a shop in Brixton that later became Peter's father's furniture factory and is a stone's throw from where our grandsons now live...but that's another story!
From the Science Museum we walked down to the Victoria and Albert Museum where we started with lunch! Then to an exhibition entitled 'Disobedient Objects' - a collection of artifacts made by protesters and activities in various parts of the world. A bit of social history. The exhibition was very crowded, mainly with young people. The rest of the museum was pretty busy too, but nothing like the scrum in the National Gallery yesterday.
Then from the sublime to the ridiculous...we walked to Peter Jones a branch of John Lewis in Sloane Square where Peter studied the bus map sitting at a table of ladies looking at knitting patterns and I browsed the pathetic selection of dress fabrics. Nothing took my fancy. I find it strange that JL has a department devoted to all sorts of sewing notions, buttons, cottons, sewing machines and yet can't put on a decent display of fabric. Whereas the curtain fabric department is excellent. Moan!!
We found a bus that took us from Sloane Square all the way back to St. Paul's. We're making good use of our bus passes! Although there were several downpours today, we managed to avoid them all.
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