Another Cambridge Gallery

• Allow me my moment of mineral-obsessive dorkiness: Cool rocks from Natural History Museum in London
• Wonderful amethyst geode yay
• Huge glowy citrine shaft
• Really cool 7color jade amphora
• Ooooopals! (lots of them lab, though. Poor museum)
• My hoard (I wish; aussie blacks, peridot, tourmaline, moonstone, rhodochrosite, iolite, ruby, topaz, and I could do without the turquoise)
• fishie!
• Corrupted entry hall to the Natural History museum
• Better, from a different angle
• Brand's theatre (Haymarket) wasimpressive, with a painting of a guy with a guitar
• The Curse of Niara struck again on the bus clock
• Nice cows on the bus back
• And then the ghetto group entrance to the V&A
• With nice lettering, for a ghetto entrance
• It's the Rosetta Stone! No, really, it is.
• And a cool assyrian gryphon-sphinx-guy
• Quetzalcoatl in an even more confusing state than we saw him
• Another Assyrian guy with wings
• And a couple of really tall columns
• And the cool library dome
• Some Roman coins (they're kinda blue, but still distinguishable)
• All right! Hindu religious art! I love rocks
• And many-armed people
• And they had a copper bowl! How cool is that?
• What is it about Indian proportions?
• Yay for crushing the grotesque dwarf of ignorance
• Now for some Aztec: it's the monolith on the road to El Dorado
• And a tree of African pots
• This one had a gecko
• Finally, they get metal! Stole the idea from the Europeans, though
• Yay for relief on cups
• And then they started encrusting them with jewels! You can't please much more
• Unless you go Islam and start chasing and inlay
• This was an absolutely radiant, iridescent glass vase, until the camera mauled it
• Oh, the chasing! The inlay!
• a href="IM000179.JPG" target="blank">This was Susan on the lion in front of the V&A, waiting for the bus
• Wow, it's a Knight Bus
• And then, on to Covent Garden
• They had just finished playing the Star Wars theme (quite well)
• And next to them were marble tables (can you tell I really like stone?)
• Next morning at breakfast, I took a picture of Cat's, or St. Catherine's College