Today we visited Gillingham Library, part of Medway Libraries and a new Spydus site. Mum and Dad came with me for this visit, as they actually met while working at Gillingham Library over 50 years ago!
We went down on the train from London. I must say, I am very impressed with the trains here - the underground is just fabulous. Trains come every couple of minutes and everything just seems to work fine! The National Rail trains were very comfortable and we had a smooth ride down to Gillingham.
I'm not going to say too much about the library visit, as I will be presenting a paper on it at SPUN in October - no spoilers!!
On the way back to London, we changed trains at Dartford, and then stopped at Albany Park to see the house I was born in. There's a photo on my photostream.
When we got back to London, we had some time left and so we went to see the British Library, which is not far from our Hotel. I am so glad that we did; there was a lovely display commemorating children's poetry in the Folio Society Gallery, as well as a selection of "Treasures from the British Library", which included Handel's original score for "The Messiah", the log book from Nelson's Victory, manuscripts from the 11th century and earlier, and much more.
The weather has continued to hold out for us; we had one or two light showers today, but nothing to cause us problems.
Caro, sounds great and looking forward to hearing about it at SPUN? Hope you are getting to lots of BM as well as BL. I find short burst of BM are good as the whole is totally overwhelming ;>))
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Can you please tell Pa to write in english or get grandma to write the postcards, its like decoding something from the de vinci code!!! lol :)
Love Casey and Deb