Hidden From The Drumming Rain, A bitter Sweet Reunion Makes Me Realise - Once Again - As We Grow Older - Nothing In Our World Will Stay The Same...
Enough of my rhymes! I remember as a child walking through giant dark rooms with towering tall ceilings, room after room, row after row of old wooden cabinets filled with taxidermy animals. Some displayed in scenes and others placed together in categories, like the row after row of beetles and butterflies... Doors that got us lost into staircases with red velvet and gold coverings... Fish swimming in rectangles filled with copper coins... but mostly the cabinets, the beautiful big old cabinets...
Our visit to the newly renovated National Museum of Scotland was pretty bitter sweet! Maybe that is a tad over dramatic but A smudge bitter in terms of missing my romanticized memories, and my inability to appreciate modern design or interactive play exhibits for children who lack attention spans! But sweet in that the place looks beautiful, the Victorian design is just stunning and I loved just walking about the main hall looking up! And I can not wait to look at the exhibits further... As Mark says, there is still more to see! One day is not long enough! Perhaps there is a hidden room full of old cabinets decorated with masses of taxidermy! haha!
What is the world going to look like in 50 years time? As a 76 year old will I be able to cope with all the modernity? It's a mad world. So long as it doesn't end up like it does in Idiocracy! (now I have to find a clip from that classic Mike Judge movie which you have just got to see if you haven't already!).
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Enough of my rhymes! I remember as a child walking through giant dark rooms with towering tall ceilings, room after room, row after row of old wooden cabinets filled with taxidermy animals. Some displayed in scenes and others placed together in categories, like the row after row of beetles and butterflies... Doors that got us lost into staircases with red velvet and gold coverings... Fish swimming in rectangles filled with copper coins... but mostly the cabinets, the beautiful big old cabinets...
Our visit to the newly renovated National Museum of Scotland was pretty bitter sweet! Maybe that is a tad over dramatic but A smudge bitter in terms of missing my romanticized memories, and my inability to appreciate modern design or interactive play exhibits for children who lack attention spans! But sweet in that the place looks beautiful, the Victorian design is just stunning and I loved just walking about the main hall looking up! And I can not wait to look at the exhibits further... As Mark says, there is still more to see! One day is not long enough! Perhaps there is a hidden room full of old cabinets decorated with masses of taxidermy! haha!
What is the world going to look like in 50 years time? As a 76 year old will I be able to cope with all the modernity? It's a mad world. So long as it doesn't end up like it does in Idiocracy! (now I have to find a clip from that classic Mike Judge movie which you have just got to see if you haven't already!).
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