Off with Her Head and other fun stuff!

Good Evening fine folk of the Antipodes,

Thank you Mr Lee for your help but I have yet to crack how to upload pics. It tells me that it's been uploaded using the URL (having saved said photos to photo bucket) but then they don't appear! Rest assured comrades we will keep trying. For now plain text will have to do.

We started the day with a wee bit of culture and headed to The Globe Theatre, the replica of the actual theatre Will Shakespeare staged his plays. It's a terrific space with it's plane oak seating, circular structure with a thatched roof that leaves a space open to the elements that the actors must continue to work through come rain or hail. Unfortunately unlike the old days, you are not permitted to throw your food or rubbish at the actors!!! Speaking of which, remember the cute young boy in Love Actually that played Liam Neeson's son ? Well, he was having an ale at the Anchor when we were and Siobhan twigged when all these young ladies ( as he is a young man probably in his early to mid twenties now) were requesting photos of him.

After the Globe we headed to the Tate Modern - a fantastic redevelopment of brilliant vision. We saw a couple of Picassos in there and Siobhan turned to me and said "I just don't get it with this guy" I agreed, to me, depicting women with five or six breasts and stuff Coming out of every orafice is just misogynistic . Don't care what the culture vultures say....... Perhaps Kate you could educate us both as to why this stuff passes as art!

From there we headed to The Tower. This was perhaps the place I wanted to see more than any thing as for years we have both loved English history - the more macabre the better. but surprisingly only 8 people were executed within the walls of the Tower grounds and 6 of those were women.......more bloody misogynists. Of those 6 women 2 were married to Henry VIII !! The many nobles executed were beheaded across the road on Tower Hill - apparently you had to be pretty important to warrant a beheading, most folk simply got hanged. Interestingly though, these lords and ladies who got the chop, was regarded as quite the entertainment event to get too. They sold food to the crowds who brought their children to watch and even had pre-beheading entertainment, a medieval Angry Anrson or Lionel Ritchie, if you will!!!


The place was incredible but given the lovely sunshine it was bathed in whilst we were there, the terror of the place was not in evidence. It looked like a beautiful castle with lovely grounds to wander around in and not a place of torture and murder at all. We think that perhaps it's a place to visit in the middle of winter to appreciate how forbidding and desolate it would be to someone waiting to die.

Well it's off to check out Lizzie's digs tomorrow and see how her joint would stack up against The Block!!

Talk soon - hopefully with pictures.


Siobhan and Kelly