Even as the flood of 2015 was occurring on Christmas Eve, just hours after we had departed for New Orleans, we were acutely aware of the damage to the road along side Tween Creeks. When neighbors arrived with pizza our first night back, they regaled us with tales of the flood and the extreme road damage as well as apprised us of the efforts to mitigate the damage. Even now road work is underway to bring our road up to standard.
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.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.
Hopefully your property didn’t suffer any damage in your absence. Happy Spring!
Other than the fact that the road coming up to our house was turned into a raging river by torrential rains in the wee small hours of Christmas Eve, we’re in good shape. Our neighbors had to deal with a road that was initially impassable then barely so but with the commencement of professional road repair, we’re now pretty much back to normal.