Yep, I missed it

By the way, the table salt they mentioned as setting off the Geiger counter would probably have been lo-salt based on potassium chloride rather than sodium chloride as all potassium compounds would have some potassium-40 which is very slightly radioactive. As everyone has potassium in their bodies anyway, don't worry about using lo salt.

 

I hope Skylark's granddaughter had a nice first day at school today

 

Me too

Me too I bet she looked adorable El, would I be a khaitologist? Or something similar? I hope you've all had a good day, I fell asleep! for 2 hours! I could have stayed longer but needed to walk Bramble. I've had an early tea & bath and now I'm in bed my earliest night in so so long

Hope moonie is taking care of himself, it's been a good few days since he was here

Sweet dreams in here for absent friends x

Good morning everyone

 

Very cloudy here. According to the Met Office there are sunny intervals with less than a 5% risk of rain.

 

Summer, I think you would be a khaitolomist.

 

I hope our absent friends return to us soon

Good morning everyone, rainy and humid here, not very pleasant.  Summer with you being a khaitolomist somehow that sounds sort of Egyptian to me.

 

I hope our absent friends are well and that we will all enjoy a nice day

 

Squiggle, apparently Khait is a girl's name in Egypt and means crowned, I wouldn't know if the Egyptian name is connected with the ancient Greek word for hair but it is quite possible.

See, you are an Egyptologist

We've done an awful lot of 'ology' in this thread this week, that makes us all very learned, erm I think

We are indeed

 

You know what's coming up next.

Yep, it's that one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC_-r-J69qA

 

How did I know you would post that EL? We all get one or should it be

 

You know me too well, but I couldn't resist it

 

I hope the weather has improved in your area. It's still cloudy here and a bit breezy but no rain.

 

Oh I love being an ologist, it makes me sound very coooool! Am I allowed an honorary degree too? *looks hopeful* Good afternoon I've had a busy morning, it started off very wet but the sun is shining now. I hope our absent friends are resting, relaxing & recovering What are your plans for this weekend ologists?

The rain has stopped but it's not nice, grey and humid.  Yes we are all going to wear our mortarboards and pick up our honorary (totally undeserved) diplomas. We are now all 'ologists'.  I too hope that our absent friends are having a relaxing day away from the sometimes stressful place this forum can be. 

 

Off on a long drive on Sunday with the family, off to borrow a sat nav soon from a friend whose son-in-law is lending it to me for the day, isn't that kind?  What's everyone else up to?

Summer, besides being a khaitolomist, you can also have an honorary degree in omnibusterminusology (there's a gap between the s and t and another one between the s and o to make sense )

 

Squiggle, that's kind of your friend's son in law to lend you that sat nav . I hope you have a nice day out on Sunday.

 

I like it El I'm a multi-skilled ologist now! I can't wait to tell the others when they come back Are you away just for the day Squiggle? I've no set plans, just pottering about and catching up on some chores I think

Just a day trip yes Summer, I think the weather is supposed to be reasonable.  Hope it is in your area too, a nice pottering about weekend sounds good

I wish the chore fairy would pay me a visit though, then I could laze about a bit more Are you all better now squiggle? My book has arrived it's quite big isn't it!

So far so good Summer, I'm being very careful as you can imagine.  I thought the book was normal size   I am longing for you to read it now

Your big book reminded me of a recent visit to a client. His wife has quite a collection of old bibles. There was a large bookcase full of them, at least 50 I reckon. Some of them were large. I didn't look at any of them but I should think that some of them must have weighed a lot and probably used to be in old churches.

 

I doubt if they had any Caxton bibles or Lindisfarne gospels though.

 

Summer, are you going to go and see the Lindisfarne gospels. They are at the Palace Green library until the end of September. People are advised to book tickets in advance for a timed slot. http://www.lindisfarnegospels.com/

Supreme medieval artistic craftmanship.

 

Oh yes I think there was a bit on TV recently about the exhibition, very exciting to actually see them, such penmanship, well that term doesn't really cover it, it is just a beautiful work of art.

We'd love to go El! And I very much hope to, we had planned on taking MIL and then she got sick. I'll ask mr summer, because I know he'd not want to miss out on such a rare & special opportunity.

I know Squiggle & El won't be back this evening so sweet dreams to you both, and leaving for night lurkers, absent friends and poorly friends. Hope to see you all soon xxx

Good morning everyone

 

It was raining here when I went to bed and it's still raining. It's forecast to dry up later this morning, then there's more rain and wind tomorrow. But then it looks as if it will become dry from Sunday.

 

Summer, if you and Mr Summer do get a chance to go to the Lindisfarne gospels exhibition let us know what you thought of it.

I hope our absent friends are able to return to us soon

 

Good morning everyone, and what a wet and dreary morning it is.  A little fresher though.

 

Summer I know it is worse for you with so many dear friends absent from this thread through illness etc.  You must especially miss the rest of the night owls I hope they are back soon as EL and I aren't often around in the evening, I found this which I thought you might like

 

and while I was looking for it I found this too, isn't that clever?

 

Definitely don't miss the chance to see the Lindisfarne Gospels.  I have a very fond memory of when the Tutankhamun Exhibition came to London.  There were massive queues around the block for it.  Towards the end of it's time they started to sell off tickets which you could actually book for instead of queueing and me and my big sis dumped the kids on our husbands and had a girly night out to go and see it.  The famous burial mask, the blue and gold one was amazing.  You wouldn't believe how bright the colours were and it was all so fascinating.  We didn't get a lot of time to be together, she had a very large family, and it's a memory I treasure especially as I have lost her now.

Squiggle, that is a clever piece of knitwear

 

I think that your weather is similar to mine. It's supposed to be sunny by this afternoon. Tomorrow isn't good. Sunday is much better so you've chosen the right day for your drive this weekend.

 

Although the original Tutankhamen treasures are now kept in Egypt, there is an exhibition in Dorchester of replicas carefully crafted to make them look as close as possible to the originals.

 

Besides that exhibition, elsewhere in Dorchester is a small dinosaur museum which I've been to. Considering that Dorchester is a small market town of around 20,000 people there's quite a lot of exhibitions etc such as Terracotta Warriors and a Teddy bear museum. Thomas Hardy's house is there (Casterbridge was based on Dorchester) and I guess that's why Dorchester has been able to attract tourists.

 

Good morning a rainy night here, it's stopped now but is still overcast. Absolutely El I'm going to look at tickets now, I'm glad you put it in my mind. I too hope our friends are soon back, I miss them! Squiggle, I've only read one chapter of my wedding girl book so have decided to postpone it so I can read twenties girl first

Squiggle I love that jumper! I would wear that I'm glad you got to see the Egyptian exhibition, what a lovely memory for you with your sister too. Those one of a kind moments are so special aren't they

Summer, I think it's been wet everywhere as it's been soggy here for a good 12 hours. I think there's still rain around in my area but there are patches of blue sky now which makes it a bit brighter.

 

Good choice Yes precious memories like that are priceless.

The sun has come out! It's so hot that I've changed my clothes

Summer, it's sunnier here now as well.

 

 

 

It was announced today that there will be a judicial review to decide where Richard III should be buried - Leicester or York.

 

No mention of Gloucester though. Richard III was Duke of Gloucester before he became King and have Gloucester its charter as city in 1483 so a case could be put forward for him to be buried here.

Where do you think he should be buried? It's such a great story about how they found him

Summer, I wouldn't really expect him to be buried at Gloucester. The was a local councillor who started a petition but I don't think it got very far.

 

It's really between Leicester and York. Hie remains were found at Leicester but some of his descendants want him to be buried at York. I don't have strong views as to which though.

I just hope they can inter the bones again with some dignity, he was after all a king.

I have no doubt that his bones will be interred with dignity. There would be public outrage if they weren't. His remains will be interred at either Leicester Cathedral (a £1m building project is underway for his tomb) or at York Minster.

 

Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said he would grant the review "on all grounds" but warned the parties against beginning an "unseemly, undignified and unedifying" legal tussle.

He urged the parties to "avoid embarking on the legal Wars of the Roses part 2".

I must admit it does all seem a little silly to me EL but I suppose remains like this are important to some towns and perhaps then I can see why there might be a disagreement about it.  I don't know the circumstances of his original burial site, is there a suggestion that he was buried somewhere that was not befitting his status?  I mean I know it's a car park now but it wasn't when he was buried

Squiggle, Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth. It is believed that his body was put on display at Leicester by the victors and was then buried in Greyfriars Church. 10 years later the King paid for a monument there.

 

Greyfriars was a monastic community and years later was dissolved and the buildings were levelled.

 

Not having read the Philippa Gregory White Queen books I do not know how she treated Richard III's demise assuming she does. I don't know to what extent the television series currently on follows the books. The last episode is on Sunday and could well cover Bosworth.