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Just thought I'd come on here and mention what a pleasant afternoon I had at the Horniman museum yesterday.(Sunday). The gardens were lovely and many of the museum exhibts were absoultely fascinating. I was genuinely surprised at the scope of the natural history section (check out the bat skeletons) and the aquarium took me off to far flung foreign seas.


Wholeheartedly recommended and comes at the extortionate cost of..................fook all!

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Top museum - the bee hive is much reduced as the colony dies off for winter, check all the dead bodies in the exit pipe which the remaining bees have removed from the colony, they only dump 'em outside when the weather is warmer so that they don't die themselves...

Upon finishing my annual Grand Tour of the continent. I like to sit in a summer evenings retreating embers, amongst the Hornimans flower terraces and make a formal account of my pilgrimage to Rome in time for the Sunday supplements.


On hearing the wardens closing bell, my soul simmers on a recurring reassurance so gratefully aknowledged - You're always as young as you feel.

  • 7 months later...
Good to have nearby but the Victorian glass cases of stuffed animals now look like some kind of freak show. Does anyone else find these exhibits freaky? Dead cats pickled in brine anyone? The ghostly eyes of a dead monkey forever staring in silent anguish? Cases of dusty lifeless butterflies? Its time has passed surely. Nice gardens though....

MrBen Wrote:

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> Good to have nearby but the Victorian glass cases

> of stuffed animals now look like some kind of

> freak show. Does anyone else find these exhibits

> freaky? Dead cats pickled in brine anyone? The

> ghostly eyes of a dead monkey forever staring in

> silent anguish? Cases of dusty lifeless

> butterflies? Its time has passed surely. Nice

> gardens though....


* shakes head in despair *


no, no, no - its what is so fabulous about that museum, its very educational and interesting.


what next? the fossil specimens are 'too old' and not in keeping with the times ?!

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Couldn't we do away with all the 'old hat' stuff

> and - instead - blow a few million pounds on

> glass case with a plastic gibbon in it - whose

> eyes light-up when you press a big red button on

> the front of the case?

>

> That's that future.


Surely lit eyes are a wasted opportunity Bob. Given a gibbon's bulbous posterior I would suggest an illuminted derriere would be more entertaining to the brain-dead masses incapable of appreciating old-style taxidermy.

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Surely lit eyes are a wasted opportunity Bob.

> Given a gibbon's bulbous posterior I would suggest

> an illuminted derriere would be more entertaining

> to the brain-dead masses incapable of appreciating

> old-style taxidermy.


I couldn't disagree more.


Gibbon.. eyes.


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If it's an illuminated arse you're looking for, then look to the baboon.


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