Thursday 29 November 2018

Veiled urns pointy finger angels and Victoria

Today we started out late as it was wet in the morning and the plan was to visit Kensal Green cemetery but the weather improved so we headed off. Kensal Green is no Highgate it is much more open and contains large numbers of veiled urn tombstones under whelming angels and very randomly placed graves including quite new ones. It is still a working cemetery and while there we saw a horse drawn hearse leave. And boy was it windy very windy. A couple of good squirrel photos were also taken. We then headed back to the apartment for a change of footwear and headed to Kensington Palace. This is always and interesting experience and once again some bits we good but others a touch poor. Diana's dresses were still on display so enjoyed viewing them but the Victoria section of the Palace was a little disappointing we preferred the setup last time. It felt very bare this time. To round out the day we headed to the V and A after checking out the Albert Memorial still not sure it was good use of public money. At the V and A we once again struggled to find our way round trying to find certain rooms is difficult. We visited the embroidered casket, The Beasts of Dacre, and finally found the painting gallery and Rossettis The Day Dream not his best work it must be said. Popped into the Natural History to see what the entrance looks like without Dippy and the blue whale skeleton is no where near as good as Dippy. It was then home via Sainsburys tried the brussel sprout chips they are different.





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