Things I want to do in London and would appreciate company for!

[kaberett]

• visit the Tower of London (probably just wandering round the outside) while it's covered in ceramic poppies
  
• do some slightly more serious wandering around the parks (gardens!)
  
• bimble off to Kew for an afternoon
  
• museums various, and also art galleries, because having got the hang of the thing in Musee d'Orsay I kind of want to have another go
  
• Proms various, list available on request, mostly the Russian/Bohemian stuff because I am not at all predictable
  
• blackberrying in Hyde Park
  
• ... probably some other things? Currently I am on too little codeine topped up with much more alcohol than I have in the average month (because it is my mother's birthday and I hadn't registered how low the opiate supply in my go-bag was getting and there were two bottles of really nice New Zealand wine plus champagne) and like clearly this is super-responsible and wouldn't upset my GPs at all, but on the upside I hurt less! Will attempt to be more coherent... later.

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

I would be up for museuming or art gallery-ing, especially if you have suggestions on specific things to see -- sometimes I feel overwhelmed at the idea of actually picking something to go look at. Also Kew Gardens might be nice, idk?

[kaberett]

I can definitely pick a thing! I will stare at a list and try to be useful.

[kaberett]

Okay, so I am definitely definitely interested in the temporary exhibit on horology at the Royal Maritime Museum Greenwich. Thoughts?

[frith_in_thorns]

I want very much to go to the Science Museum, probably in the week or two post-NineWorlds, but not at a weekend because busy then. (Probably also with Ellie depending on if/when she can take time off work.) Is that a too restrictive list of possibilities?

[kaberett]

Given that it's right next door to work? Nope, not even a little bit. Popping out to the Science Museum is no problem at all :-)

[frith_in_thorns]

Put me down for a "definitely", then :) Can we sort out details after I've finished moving house and hopefully have organising-brain again?

[kaberett]

Yep!

[frith_in_thorns]

Oh, also the Ice Age Animal exhibit at the Natural History Museum! That costs extra Money, but I'd really like to see it.

...and in both places I will probably also get sucked into the gift shop vortex. They have excellent gift shops. Full of excellent things like upside-down empty lightbulbs you can PUT THINGS IN. And cuddly dinosaurs of types which I DO NOT YET OWN. (I'm a child.)

[kaberett]

I can do you this geologist's tour of the minerals gallery at the NHM, if you like. It starts out with my favourite animatronic dinosaur and moves swiftly on to cock rocks, depending on the tourist's feelings about dick jokes. From there it becomes rather more sensible...

In Dorset? Devonian, actually.

[hairyears]

The geologist's tour of the NHM comes highly recommended. ;o)

[thefairymelusine]

Blackberrying! And I really, really want to go to the Tower of London again- I went round it when I was tiny with Dad a few times, and devised a plot to steal or free the ravens (or both, because clipping their wings IS CHEATING AT ORACULAR BIRDS)

[kaberett]

I am going to be blackberrying tomorrow morning with housemate + one of their partners, at least in the first instance, but there's no reason that can't happen more than once!

ToL: I can only really do the outside sensibly I suspect (wheelchair!) but would love to do that much!

[thefairymelusine]

I like the outside most- I would like to go in again, but suspect I need to pick a particular friend with whom to do that. We could count ravens!

(I have a fully fledged phobia of
- Cathedrals
-Old architecture in the original stone without paint or finish, unless it is marble and safe
-old places where I know bad things happened.
I probably need to drag my best mate and tell him that I may end up needing to hold his hand during a panic attack or when triggered. (Gods know why I have a full on trigger response to things I have never directly experienced, but I read a lot of kid's medieval history when badly bullied, so maybe it's that).

[hunningham]

I'm interested! Kew, gardens, blackberrying, art galleries are all things I'd love to do.

[kaberett]

Eeeeexcellent. My wheelchair's currently a bit fucked so outside-things are going to be harder until I've got it mended again; have you any preferences? :-)

[hunningham]

No preferences as such, but am happy to have a quick look around and come up with list of possibles. Let me know if you have anything in mind youself

[hairyears]

I have very few days free in August, but a bimbleday would be delightful.

[kaberett]

In which case, let me know your availability?

[hairyears]

Er, no availability in August. but I will be at LonCon.

[simont]

I am very sleepy and read 'ceramic puppies'.

[kaberett]

:-)

[pteranodon]

I would love to accompany you to these things, particularly parks and museums. And Kew Gardens yessss. The Tower would be pretty cool too.

[kaberett]

There is a temporary horology exhibit on at the Royal Maritime Museum Greenwich I would properly adore going to.

[nanila]

I would be up for museum-ing in South Ken, but not until after the school holidays are over!

[kaberett]

Makes perfect sense.