A fab weekend....

Hello! Yes, as the title says, I did indeedy have a fab weekend. Saturday morning we slept in and then headed off to St Paul's Cathedral. It usually costs £7 to get in the door, but Scott can get free tickets with his work so we got in for nuthin! I understand that they need £ for the upkeep, but £7 per person? I don't think so! Anyway, we found out that the very top viewing area is out of commission due to the bombings (for safety, not because someone had bombed the place), so we could go to the Whispering Gallery and to the next one up. The Whispering one was interesting as you can stand on one side of it and whisper something to the wall and someone over the other side of the gallery can hear you. No secrets! That was approx 250 steps up. Another 250 steps up was the outside gallery, which gave us great views over the city of London and the Thames. I took lots of photos. After St Pauls' Scott and I headed to the east end of London to an area called Wapping. There are some great old pubs there, including one built in the 1590s called the Prospect of Whitby. We stood on the back deck, which is right on the Thames and watched the boats go by. The tide was going out, and I watched the archaeological record being created. I was watching two glasses being thrown about by the waves, and then getting half buried in the sand. So in future years, some archaeologist may find these odd pieces of glass.....

Sunday was fun too. We got up early and headed into the Tower O London. The City of London Archaeological Society runs something every year, where they open up the Thames foreshore in front of the Tower. People can go looking for artefacts to see what they can find. Scott and I had such a good time wandering along looking for interesting items. We found all sorts of wonderful things, including some medieval stoneware, Tudor pottery, Victorian dinner ware (all fragments!), a part of a shoe sole, various pieces of metal and all kinds of other weird and wonderful stuff. I was told that a carved piece of bone I found was used for ice skates due to the odd shape. Plausible story I thought :-) We got quite a haul. Not quite sure what we are going to do with it all, but still! And I have to lug them all into work tomorrow to show Alison at work what we found.

Drinks tonight with people from work should be lovely!

:-)