Day 40 - Happy Thursday - Cirencester

[byslantedlight]

Thursday was Gloucestershire day - I woke up in Cirencester! Well, I'd gone to bed there too, so that wasn't unexpected, but it was cool because it turned out to be a rather good market town. *g* There was glass-making at the arts centre... ...and chained books in the big church.

I rather liked the church's description of itself as reflecting humanity through the ages (rather than the more usual all-worship stuff) And I liked the remains of the brightly painted wall too. I do like the idea of churches as buildings with colour and imagination all around (granted alot of the imagination involved what they said would happen to "sinners", but still... bright colours! *g*)

I wandered wee alleys... ...and found an independent bookshop (I might have gone back later... *g*)

Found a waffle shop, and so I had to have lunch there. Waffle shop. *g*

The lads are never really far apart away either...

After lunch I hit the Corinium Museum, which was pretty impressive. I could post many pics of mosaics, but I'll restrain myself. Instead, have a Roman soldier... ...and a Roman garden.

Oh and look where the original of this is! I must admit I'd assumed London would have snaffled it... I also didn't know that we had actual examples of Roman writing (the kind that isn't just capital letters *g*). Huh.

A wee bit more wandering (mostly around Octavia's bookshop... *g*) and then back to my car, and back to Buckinghamshire... where it was also nice to go to bed in my own comfy bed.

And that was Thursday. *g*

Comments

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

Enjoyed all your travels... that bookshop looked fab, :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I do love your icon... *g*

Octavias was a nice bookshop - it had an adult section too, but it specialised in children's books and I loved that she was sitting at the register herself, all happy and positive and full of her own love of children's books. *g* Ooh, here's here website too - I love that she offers children's birthday parties - substituting a book for the now-traditional "party bag"!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

(and I forgot to mention from the other post - heron!!!!!!! yay!). That's Roman cursive??? Wow. What's it written in/on, did you find out?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The Roman writing is (sadly) a bill of sale for a slave - found in London. Can't remember what the material was though - and now I'm curious too, rats!

Yeay, heron! *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I visited Cirencester in 2006 and went through the Corinium Museum. It was really interesting, especially since it's another period that interests me. I'm sure there's more to it now.

And speaking of interest, there's a stained glass of Richard, Duke of York, Richard III's father, in the Trinity Chapel in the Cirencester church. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I bet I saw the stained glass, and had absolutely no idea of its significance... sorry! *g* The museum was pretty cool though - and it felt rather Roman somehow, all nice and light and airy (I guess I just always imagine Italian summer light in general though, as being "Roman"!)

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Wow! You certainly packed a lot of things into Thursday!
That waffle looks DELICIOUS!
Ta for the Roman soldier and the Roman garden.
And fancy finding Cowley House and Chalk and Cheese so close together. It's a sign! *vbg*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - it didn't feel that busy at the time! The waffle was good... *g* And yeah, the lads are everywhere!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

It's a good few years since I last went to Cirencester, so time we visited again. Maybe we'll go next summer. And I definitely need to find the waffle place.