Monday, December 22, 2014

August 2013: The laughing horse

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Now i don't remember why i wandered into the BM, but there you go. I have seen this chap many times, but never up so close.

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The sculpture itself isnt that big or tall. Fairly small, about 5 feet for the horse.

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this is from 1st Century AD, representing a roman prince?

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and the horse seems to be laughing at you…

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a fairly patrician face, no? the statue was restored in the 16th century by Giacomo della Porta.

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But the horse is very mobile and active in its expressions. Can you imagine what it would say if it had to describe its life over the past 2 millennia?

Monday, December 15, 2014

Aug 2013: Mushrooms and Bikes

So Diya and I went off on a bike ride.

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lovely evening

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and then we stopped for a nice selfie :)

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and then stopped for a drinks break

 

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and we saw these giant mushrooms…

Friday, December 12, 2014

July 2013: Diya’s little ballet performance

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so we went to see Diya’s ballet performance on a glorious summer day

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And the lights went on….

First off the block was this flapper dance

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she looked so adorable :)

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And then these cloud of butterflies came out

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two senior girls…

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totally graceful…i wanted to squish her…

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unlike somebody who was so not interested

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very energetic

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and the final bow…lovely

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and we came out to see the sun was still shining on us. was feeling proud enough to burst and she got squished in front of everybody :)