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*

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[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"!