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Go figure.
Anyway, there I was, thinking the prices weren't as crazy-stupid as I expected, when I saw this:
A £1,600 bed. For a cat. I love my cats, but - seriously?
I knew I should have avoided Harrod's, but Emma made me promise I'd come along. Without grizzling, complaining, whining, whinging, moaning, kvetching, or otherwise ruining her experience.
And I kept my promise.
In fairness it wasn't all that difficult. There were interesting things to see, especially the junk in the Millionaire Gallery. James Bond memorabilia with the autographs of all actors who have played Bond. If you like shopping, the Spy Shop with all sorts of marvellous surveillance gear - basically the dumb, pointless stuff.
But the shrine to Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed...
She owes me.
Afterwards we went to the British Museum. Now this is my idea of a good time.
Built in 1882 as a dedicated natural history museum, and still utterly awesome. It has rocks and mammals and plants and spiders and freakin' dinosaurs!!!
All told forty-one different species are represented - just in the "A's":
Aardonyx, Abelisaurus, Achelousaurus, Achillobator, Acrocantho-saurus, Aegyptosaurus, Afrovenator, Agilisaurus, Alamosaurus, Albertaceratops, Albertosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Alioramus, Allosaurus, Alvarezsaurus, Amargasaurus, Ammosaurus, Ampelosaurus, Amygdalodon, Anatotitan, Anchiceratops, Anchisaurus, Ankylosaurus, Anserimimus, Antarctopelta, Antarctosaurus, Apatosaurus, Aragosaurus, Aralosaurus, Archaeoceratops, Archaeopteryx, Archaeornitho-mimus, Argentinosaurus, Arrhinoceratops, Atlascopco-saurus, Aucasaurus, Austrosaurus, Avaceratops, Avalonia, Avimimus, and Azendohsaurus.
I can't recall who the guy to the left is. Not an A. Ericosaurus or Jeffosaurus or something.
Almost as awesome as these guys.
Incredibly, like the British Museum, it's free. I could come back again, even if it wasn't.
So that's my plan for tomorrow. Emma goes shopping at Selfridges, and I go back to the British Natural History Museum, where I'll be doing a tour of the Spirit Centre in the Museum's Darwin Centre.
So I take it Brian 2 cat beds are on their way home as we speak!
ReplyDeleteThe natural history museum looks AWESOME. Almost worth the price of the airfare there and back alone.
ReplyDeleteBTW, this blog + facebook is awesome. I get the trailers from Emma on FriendFace, and a few days later the feature rocks up here :)
Both the British Museum and British Natural History Museum are outstanding. I could easilyspend several days in each.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the positive feedback on the blog. Finding time to write the blog is challenging, and I often forget to check comments.