I’d thought I go and check out the Cenotaph in London before they took away the wreaths and pay my respects. At the same time I had planned to visit the Household Cavalry Museum, however that was closed due to the state visit from the South Korean president and his wife. This isn’t the first time a state visit has interrupted my plans either and probably not the last!!
Only just started in the British Museum is the Burma to Myanmar exhibit that explores the few treasures that have come from the country. And there are some amazing pieces on display, from a gold letter to the King of England that went un-replied. To an intricate ivory chair.
You get a bit of a glimpse into the art that has come from the country but due to constant conflict there, there is a sense of limitations in the exhibit. Like so many subjects there is a vast story to tell and the scope isn’t there. A pebble in the sea of what information they could have given? What is on offer may give some insight, however to me it’s just showing off what they have in the British Museum collection.
3.5 out of 5.
I love Star Wars, there are so many good things, and at the same time so many disappointments. I grew up reading the books after the films and feel the final had me wanting more and irked at little things.
I don’t know why Sabine suddenly had a power boost in the final show, why throw away some good characters into the abyss and why leave Ahsoka on that god forsaken planet! As for Ahsoka who wields a lightsaber well it looked terrible at times, sloppy, missed place strikes. For a woman who is seasoned it looked unrefined and she needed a lot more training than given.
As for Thrawn I like the fact that the Grand Admiral got away and got back to the galaxy we know, it leaves it open for advancing the story, however the acting felt flat! I was left feeling underwhelmed by the whole process. I truly wish for better.
On now for a month you can go to Sotheby’s on New Bond Street and see a vast collection of items once owned by Freddie Mercury before they go on sale. I’d say if you can, go see it now, because after the six auctions all his treasures will be scattered and most likely scattered to the four corners of the world.
I feel it will be a shame, as I felt a lot of these items should have stayed in his house and that created into a museum. Nevertheless, this is a part of life and its story in this famous character.
I knew he had a love for Japanese art, but I didn’t realise how vast his collection was. From a very nice collection of prints, to ceramics and sets of kitchen ware. There is a degree of opulence about the character and a slight insight into the eccentric nature of the person we see from his things. There is also a degree of love for the items on display, from the clothing to the records and his famous piano. A new Yamaha piano will set you back £5,000 but if you want Freddie’s make sure you have more than £2 million + capitol. And if I am honest, there are some even nicer things to get your hands on than the piano.
This is a little hidden gem in the Bank area of central London. When they built the new Bloomberg building they moved the Roman Mithraeum temple out and then put the ruins back to where they originally found them. You can now go online and book a free visit if you have a spare half an hour to visit it in your day.
Entering you are treated with an ever changing art space, then next to it is a wall of finds which you can browse before descending down the stairs to the temple. There is a brief bit of information in a waiting area and when let through you are treated to a very mystical setting, low lights, barely visible and it is a treat to watch and listen to the story.
After that’s finished you can have a walk around when it lit up better, take some photo’s, ask those questions before leaving. Well worth a visit in my opinion.
My sister-in-law gave me this orchid in 2011 as a house warming gift at my previous residence. A new hasn’t shocked it and it seems to like my kitchen windowsill as it has flowered yet again.
I went to see a film and got back home before 10pm so… there are five takeaways right next to were I live it’s 15 minutes to 10pm and they all say they close at 10pm all but the Chinese take away were closing up and cleaning! I feel the Chinese takeaway is rubbish which looks filthy and unkept.
Ugh!
Now back home I found a pot noodle I didn’t know I had, poured myself a glass of red wine at home! So much for those take away operating hours!
Since I moved into my new home in August 2021 I had been getting amazon packages for a company and wasn’t sure why they were coming to my address. But my initial research of the company name showed it was the previous people that lived here before me that was operating a business from this address.
At first, I had thought the couple have moved to Wales, they did initially, but they returned to the same area I live in, they effectively moved around the corner to a bigger house. So, I found them and had a chat about these amazon packages. It turns out they have been operating an Amazon store on the platform and the packages I get are part of the returns system. Somewhere in amazon’s great big computer network there seems to be an error with addressing and these returns that I get.
It’s now 2023 and this morning two more packages came through my letter box. I really was fed-up with phoning Amazon, their system is so poor. Spoken to Philippines, Jamaica, this time I got on the train and went to their head office in London.
After near to 40 minutes of waiting in reception I finally spoke to a guy from security! I gave him a report about my situation. They didn’t even have a customer service representative to deal with me. I noticed a few things in the head office there, like other big companies they operate security through another company, Securitas AB. They appear to operate full time staff and contractors (cheaper staff).
I was also asked and was told that they get seven to eight people a week coming in through the door reporting similar instances of these problems. That’s equivalent of 416 people a year just in London coming in through the door. If like me they have received over 60 unneeded packages a year, that’s 24,960 packages sent wrongly a year.
Amazon are firing staff, but it seems to be to save money it might be wiser to sort out these problems with the displacement. 25,000 packages could equate to a loss to Amazon of £125,000 just in England. If you want to have a guess at a worldwide figure of loss to Amazon, the numbers tell me that Amazon are losing £2.5 to £3 million plus through these system errors.
The company is worth billions, even still, that’s a big loss and the small end.
Recently added to Netflix this show takes around the globe to analyse events in history and connect them together. However, this is deep history and that has problems. It’s very hard to analyse these events and carbon dating isn’t quite as accurate as a lot of TV makes out.
Graham Hancock points out his Wikipedia page straight away at the beginning, it really seems to be a dig at the website. It’s not Wikipedia, it’s the more grounded historical societies and historians which are calling him a fruit.
Hancock is running around half-cocked! He takes us to nice interesting places to explore and shows up some interesting historical sites. But that appears to be where it ends. It’s then all guess work with flashy computer animation. There is nothing scientific about this program, I might as well have watched Ancient Aliens and have the same problems. Half-cocked mumbo-jumbo!
Hancock seems to push his apocalypse theorem at over 10,000 years ago and talks about an ancient civilisation, but nothing is confirmed. In truth, it’s very hard to piece together the ancient world at this level, as part of what he said is right, there were lots of earth-shattering moments which destroyed the world, but there are multiple times this has happened. Volcanoes, earthquakes at different periods in different areas of the planet have this effect also. But he hasn’t addressed these other problems that can cause these disasters. Hancock seems to stick to one large event and doesn’t appear to look at the picture the same as others. This view is fracturing and I can understand why there is so much scepticism.
I give him credit for trying to establish a theory, but this is just his theory. It’s so much easier to focus on a singular issue. But overall, this is too grandiose and that throws a lot of people off, including me.
I am not sure if I enjoyed the show, the story feels disjointed and episode five felt like the nail in the coffin for me. The original Game of Thrones was amazing, the writing was excellent with an excellent cast.
The writing for House of Dragons, well there are a few good moments, but the whole script feels disjointed. You are thrown around from one location to another at times. Some of the acting seems good, then other actors, actresses, some seem flat and unemotional. Action thrown in and what you have left is miss-mash TV.
I wasn’t really enjoying the show, and I felt lost with episode five. I understand getting married, but other elements… Ugh! I don’t know how others feel. But I’ve had enough of it.
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