August 2013: The laughing horse

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.

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

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

 

and the horse seems to be laughing at you…

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

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?

Aug 2013: Mushrooms and Bikes

So Diya and I went off on a bike ride.

 

lovely evening

 

and then we stopped for a nice selfie :)

 

and then stopped for a drinks break

 

and we saw these giant mushrooms…

July 2013: Food and Drink

July 2013: Diya’s little ballet performance

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

  

And the lights went on….

First off the block was this flapper dance

she looked so adorable :)

And then these cloud of butterflies came out

two senior girls…

 

totally graceful…i wanted to squish her…

unlike somebody who was so not interested

very energetic

and the final bow…lovely

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 :)