Coffee Break with Mr. Kipling
Just taking a break while chit chatting with the Almonds and our Kind Hostess. Photo above of one of Mr. Kipling's "Exceedingly Good Cakes"- I've been going through all of Mr. Kiplings cakes, still need to try the Lemon Slice and the Battenburg....Especially nice if paired with a nice cup or tea or coffee. And no double double or single cream or any of that sort of thing. Over here you ALWAYS get the milk in your cup of tea you just need to deal with the sugar choice. With coffee you ask for it white and do the sugar yourself. All good lessons to learn.Went to the Powell-Cotton Museum in Birchington yesterday because well, yes, um, it was raining again. Powell-Cotton and his family did a ton of exploring in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mostly travelling in Africa and Asia they brought back over 6,000 mammal specimens and collected another 18,000 artefacts. One of the quirkiest things we saw there was the Congreve Clock - physics/mechanically minded types types might be interested in this. It's main operating mechanism appears to be a small rolling ball that goes back and forth every 30 secs keeping the time.
posted by KT @ 9:16 AM
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More beautiful photos! (lincoln... etc), and the food pic, did you lift it? Because if you didn't you might pick up some extra money 'food styling' on your return! But back to the scenic pics -- lovely landscape, excellent postbox pic, nice hostel photo (can imagine the excellent reception), AND even some 'machine' stuff for variety (aka an airplane).
Those rainy days sure are good for filling the mind and feeding your blog readers! tanks as always m on the m :-)
Katie, since are of the museum going crowd, I suggest you get a copy of the book 'the map that changed the world', and they try to find the map. It's hanging in London someplace but I could find it when I was there.
pabt
Daniel and M on the M just played the 'Citroen' commercial -- ever cool!! Daniel's message (even if not timely is:) Can anyone tell what the head is from?? Bye for now. D and M on M.
Re: the clock. We saw one of these in the Science Museum in London IIRC. The inventor thought it would keep better time than anything else, but it wears out even faster, unfortunately.
I second the suggestion about "The Map That Changed The World". I believe the map in question is in the British Geological Society HQ, but I never found it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(geologist)
Yes, I thought it was on the British Society wall too. However, after re-consulting the book and then preusing a map of London, I think it is in the Royal Geographical building, with appears to be just up the street from the Royal museum, or down the road from the V&A, depending upon where you happen it be standing...It's not near Reading though...Scrap it, lets go to the pub.
pabt
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