Dale Chihouly’s chandeliers are infiltrating big municipal building foyers from the Benaroya hall in Seattle to the Victoria and Albert museum in London’s South Kensington. Have they infiltrated a foyer near you?
The Natural History Museum, originally opened in 1881 and now open 7 days a week, free to everyone. It’s got Mammoth skeletons, literally, Mammoth! Designed by a young manchester architect, Alfred Waterhouse, the building itself is a work of art. Arches have spines and unique varied animals climbing them.
There are no rules posted about the use of cameras which meant I got a tiny-bit snap-happy.
In English newspapers sport stories, results, are normally reported on the back pages of paper newspapers. When I graduated from a Leicestershire University (1992) an hounoury masters degree was awarded to Gary Lineker for being a Master of his sport and
“putting sport where it belongs, on the back pages”
In the early 90s footballing celebrities like Gazza were getting newspaper coverage on the front pages for behaviour that is surely not worthy of emulating.
Recently I had the pleasure of attending a fun Christmas, office, party held in Madame Tussauds waxworks where I met Gary again and he looks just the same…