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Showing posts with label skeletons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skeletons. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 December 2014

A day in London...


       
Christmas in the Powis household is completely family orientated, and our annual trip to London was here! Every year we travel to London and head to Harrods for some cheeky Christmas shopping, however this year we also visited the Natural History Muesum...
   

A beautiful scene of Christmas lights and ice skating greeted us outside the museum, it added to the Christmas vibe...
All things old and wonderful were on display...
I thought Libby was tall until we met this giant ball of fur!

As a child I loved Jurassic Park, so seeing these life sized dinosaurs really sends a shiver down your spine... 
Skeletons...
Of course the horse has to be the top skeleton at the Muesum in my opinion, I can't describe my fascination with the way the horse is made and has evolved over millions of years into the incredible athlete scene today...
I don't agree with the reckless killing of animals but I do strongly agree with using animals who have died of natural causes for education on the species and awareness of the wild situations...
Of course Harrods never fails to impress, and the lights this year really were breathtaking...
 
   
 
The food hall is always my favourite 'the way to anyone's heart is through their stomach' and is it true! Everything looks so good you want it all, I did have a moment of weakness and bought some champayne truffles...

After all the shopping, we did have to have a quick break and ended up having afternoon tea at Galvis; a quant boutique within the food hall that offers a full course meal or a light snack... 

Saturday, 6 December 2014

Oxford University Museum of Natural History...

       
I finally got the opportunity to tear myself away from working and explore the Natural History museum in Oxford, and was it worth it! If you've read my previous blogs you'll know that I'm a big of bones, a weird interest but one that's bloody cool!
First thing you see when you walk in is Dinosaurs, if I'm honest the museum is pretty similar to Londons Natural History museum, just on a smaller scale...

The best skeleton of course was the horse, complete with every little nook and cranny...
They even had one of the oldest member of the equine family, the Mesohippus...