London Museum

[shaneystar2]

I'm reading a history mystery and in the book the protagonist is invited to look around the house of a lawyer .It's stacked to the gunnels with various artefacts statues ,paintings etc .It reminded me of a museum somewhere in London that was in a private house but I can't remember the name of it .It's bugging me :)
Any ideas as to what it's called ?

[netibiza]

Good morning, very overcast and dampish here today, horray!! love it. Hija has broken her pinkie on her left hand and started work yesterday! She fell over a pavement slab, cos to be honest we have decent pavements here (where there are pavements) and one doesn't expect to fall over them! Sis in law is taking her to doctors or A&E.

Off to meet my friend for coffee. Her husband is the one with the catheter and he has been in hospital to have his prostate drained or something, will get the gist of it today!

[netibiza]

Just had a drama here, some poor woman threatening to jump from a 4th floor apartment, lots of local police, guardia civil and ambulance men around, they finaloly managed to talk her down and got her to hospital, she looked norml, everytEngland. Hope she recoers. And yes I was rubber necking!!

[netibiza]

Errrr, have we moved again!!!

[shaneystar2]

Yes we have Neti .We've left the salon for a museum and I'm your tour Guide .
So,it's no touching the exhibits or sudden bazoom whirling :) We don't want the Ming going ping .
Hope your daughter will be Ok .
Are you up the Shard today Jno ? Just thinking about it makes me feel queasy .
Make sure you have something warm on ,it's freezing here .

[Robinia]

Morning fusties...wet, windy and bloomin' chilly here too.
Hope it's a clear day in London!

Oh as long as there are moving pictures I'll watch anything on tv. :) Lots of comedy stuff, especially QI...diy/house makeovers/gardening... Eggheads, The Chase, soaps, costume dramas, the 'classics', mild murder stuff, Holby and Casualty (it's not all medical, I like the background stories, they're often quite tear jerking. I just love Henrik Hanssen the director of surgery in Holby, his cutting sarcasm has me in hysterics). I'm worryingly obsessed with Merlin. I think I get my money's worth from my license :)

Behave neti
http://www.toonpool.c...iles/museum_79005.jpg

[Robinia]

btw shaney, thanks for the fill in on Downton

[netibiza]

http://i49.tinypic.com/1zdx4yc.jpg

Here is hija's finger, I don't think it is broken, I have advised cold ice and witch hazel, any other advise please??

[Dolly1308]

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[Robinia]

ooh, ouch neti, I think she's doing the right thing, hasn't she had it x rayed then? ibuprofen will help with inflammation

hello there Dolly, have all the letters fallen off because you're upside down? :)

[netibiza]

Dolly?? shouldn't you be tucked up in your bed??

[shaneystar2]

Oh that looks painful Neti .Yes Ibuprofen .Arnica is good for bruising too .
Hello Dolly ....are you Ok down there ?

[netibiza]

Thanks shaney I was trying to remember that one, will tell her.

[jno]

I was inside the Shard on the 68th floor and taking photos through glass which had water trickling down it (i think it had been washed but not dried) so that spoiled some of my photos. There's a platform on the 72nd floor in the open air, where the tops of the pyramid sides stop but don't quite meet so there's open air at the corners where you can take pictures, but it wasn't open today as it is still being built. It was warm inside but I bet it's nippy up on the roof, and I hope oxygen masks fall down from somewhere.

Anyway it clouded over but here are some pictures

http://i45.tinypic.com/2re5hq8.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/352g2na.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/4sy135.jpg

Hope those work.

Neti, that doesn't actually look broken, does it? It's straighter than mine are. Maybe she's just sprained it, if you can have sprained fingers.

[woofgang]

ouch! get the ring off neti as the whole hand might swell. It doesn't look broken but I bet its painful.
My garage is now beeyootifully empty and i have ordered new daybed thing, mattresses, bedding, pillows, the whole shebang.

Its this one
http://www.ikea.com/g...og/products/50080315/

I want the room to be vaguely seaside nautical so the walls are going to be very pale greeny bluey grey with aqua bedding. I have an old gateleg table, a mirror and a small chest of drawers that I am going to paint a darker greeny bluey grey and finish to look a bit worn. Sis is my partner in crime with all this.

[woofgang]

lovely pics jno.....were you spying on the queen? isn't that treason??

[jno]

apparently you can see Windsor Castle from up there. Not today though. Rather a shame as it was bright and clear earlier in the morning.

Last time I was in a high building it was Tower 42 a couple of weeks ago, the former NatWest tower, which is the big blackish one in the middle of the photo. (Only on the 24th floor or so, though.) But that day was really murky and I could hardly even see the Shard, and that takes some missing.

[jno]

mmm, that decor looks ideal for shanghaiing sailors, should you need to for any reason

[shaneystar2]

Brilliant photos Jno ..I was fine until I clicked on the third one and then my screen started swaying from side to side :)
Lovely bed Woofy .I've got little bits of nautical decor but they're a bit like me ,haphazard and all over the place :)

[Robinia]

Oh jno, they're fantastic pics. I take it you don't suffer from vertigo. I'm not sure whether I'd like it up there or not...it's a bit late to find out when you come to with a crowd of tutting tourists.

I love that woofy, I like multi functional furniture....I slightly misread jno's comment about sailors :)

[netibiza]

Love the piccies jno, rather too high for my liking!

Woofy love that day bed, really nice, so are you turning your garage into a bedroom, is that the gift of it or have I to go back and re read the whole thing!

Hija is at A&E at the moment.