UK Trip 2005

Off to the Imperial War Museum again to watch further newsreel films at the IWM Cinema and see the M-rated war crimes exhibition/film on the top level. Took some pics of the large exhibits in the front hall, and made them very happy in the IWM shop again with their posters, and postcards, and guidebooks, and mugs, and replica ration books, and, and...Then back on the tube, in the end staying on the Bakerloo line until Paddington, where the Paddington Bear stall still thrives of course on the concourse of the overground terminal, and where a new "full size"(?) bronze statue of London's most famous bear, commissioned to commemorate the little fellow's 40th anniversary in 1998, was unveiled by Michael Bond in February 2000, in the "Lawn" area of Paddington station (which is, in fact, indoors and completely grassless, utterly devoid of chlorophyl and greenery of all kinds, in fact a shopping mall attached to the terminal for the Heathrow Express. Nobody has a monopoly on stupid place names). I should add that if you feel you have a lazy £3000 to spare, you can snap up one of just 25 Limited Edition, 300mm-tall replica bronze statuettes cast at the same time as the full-size one in Paddington station. Didn't think so. Bought a few bearish goodies for a certain very good little chap who I know, then struggled home, through grumpy Sainsbury's at South Ealing (and the Daleks have made the cover of the Radio Times for the first time in HOW many years?), the 65 bus so shy tonight that it took 25 minutes to appear, and even then only came because it could bring a matching friend immediately behind. Next Previous

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