Some views of Oxford, where we spent an enjoyable couple of days on Thursday and Friday - a present from our children to celebrate my husband's birthday. I have no idea which buildings are which so will have to come back later with some research done. I managed to acquire a cold whilst we were there (perils of travelling on public transport) and I need to get outside and get some fresh air - and take some photos of the river in spate - and the flood across our lane stopping us getting out that way . . .
This building is the Radcliffe Camera. (As in "camera" being Latin for "room".) It was designed by James Gibbs in the Neo-classical style and originally housed the Science Museum.
As we walked to the Pitt-Rivers Museum, we spied this lovely old cottagey house - you wouldn't believe how short the doors were! The wind was blowing swirls of leaves all around us.
A Divination board from the Nicobar Islands, India. At times of sickness such boards were hung in houses to attract malevolent spirits so that they could be captured and expelled by the ritual specialist. If the patient survived, the board was kept for further use, but if not it was thrown away. Collected in 1880 (ish - can't quite read that part).
Hmmm - this was the piece in association with the figure above it - to me, it just looked like a gigantic Gingerbread Man!!!
This was in the same display, and is a preserved monkey head which looks rather . . . weird!
Above - just, "WOW"! and below: what we saw when we sat down to have a cup of tea (I say cup of tea, we asked for a pot of tea for two, and it came as two small pots and two cups for the princely sum of £5! Call me a cheapskate, but that seems an awful lot for a couple of teabags and some hot water (and the loan of two chairs for ten minutes!)
Tremendous Gothic designs and decorations in the Museum, which I think started to be built around 1860.
