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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Today was a short day for me, and this will be a short Ramblings.  Ham and cheese sandwich and yogurt for breakfast, and I was out of here about 10.  I have been staying up a little later each night and getting up a little later each morning.  This morning I didn’t get out of bed until 8.

It rained overnight, and it was still raining when I got up.  The forecast called for more showers throughout the day.  I decided to spend some time at the museums, meaning the Victoria and Albert, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.  I took the tube there and started with the V & A.  The place is huge and there is no way to begin to see much of it, so I wandered around and saw a few things.  I looked at Japanese things, and sculptures, and some interesting displays about silver and silver work.  There was an interesting little film about the lost wax method of bronze casting, and I enjoyed seeing that.  I sat from time to time, as I’m not feeling 100% today.  I tire easily and I feel just a little off.  Not enough to say I am ill, but not good enough to say I am 100% either.  So, I sat and watched people a fair bit.

By the time I was thinking of moving on to one of the other museums, it was bucketing down outside, so I found the tunnel that connects the South Kensington tube station with the museums, and I went to see if I could get into one of the other ones without going out into the rain, but I couldn’t.  So, I waited in the tunnel with a number of other people, until the shower quit.  Then I went to the Natural History Museum.

I looked at the bird displays, but old bird bodies aren’t all that exciting to me.  It was warm in there, and I was feeling weak again and so I found a place to sit, where it was cooler.  I had a tuna baguette at the food place there, and an iced latte, hoping it would wake me up.  They were both good, and I guess they revitalized me a little, so I took in a couple of other exhibits, and then I found a place to sit and read my book for a while.  At about 2:30, I decided that I had had enough for the day, so I headed for home.

I need to go out and get some groceries for my last two dinners here, and two more breakfasts (I have cheese and bread, but need more ham).  When I was ready to go a few minutes ago, it was raining again, so I am writing this instead, and then I will make the store trip, hopefully between showers.

I have yesterday’s pictures processed and Photos26 made and ready to upload to the website, so I will do that when I get back from the store, and put this very brief Ramblings up at that time, too.

Nothing else to report, unless I have some adventures on my way to or from the store.

Well, I did have a little adventure on my grocery store run, after all.  When I got home and emptied my pockets, I noticed that all my change was gone.  Oops.  Another wardrobe malfunction – I had a hole in my pocket.  I had about 6 pounds in change, which is about $8.50.  I thought about retracing my steps, so see if I could recover any of it, but decided not to.  I not only don’t feel like walking, I figure that someone may have already found a bonanza trail of coins and picked them up.  I find it interesting that I hadn’t noticed them when they fell down my pant leg on the inside.  I got out my trusty sewing kit and sewed up the pocket, but I notice that it is still very thin at the bottom, and I don’t think I will trust it.  Only one more day of wearing those jeans anyway, and since I don’t have any change now, all I have to do is remember not to put my keys in that pocket.

So, that is the story of this Tuesday.  I still feel poorly, although I can’t really put my finger on what part of me feels poorly.  It is just a general malaise, I guess.  I just hope I’m not coming down with something.