Spent the day pulling furniture and boxes out of the storage room. The room that will become our study. We some furniture up the stairs to the bedroom and the study. Lots of boxes to be unpacked then broken down and packed into the car to be hauled to the recycling center. The exciting moment came when we found the first of the corners on the back wall of the study. Still lots and lots of boxes yet to be moved and unpacked. Why do we own this much stuff?
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
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