technology and me

British Word of the Day: lorry - a vehicle with an open area in back to put various large items--especially good for moving with sofas and couches and large pieces of furniture. (American's "truck"). eg: Put that in the back of the lorry, it won't fit in the Mini."

Charming blog entry title, right?

That's the only thing charming about it. We took a lovely field trip to an old Roman city in the British countryside, and I whipped out my camera at the first Kodak moment only to find it refused to take pictures. It allowed me to assume it was working because the review portion of the camera was working. But the actual picture-taking portion of the camera device was not.

This put a damper on my plans to have a picture post this evening.

I shall have to describe the area, then. And, you can also "google" St Alban and his cathedral, and the area surrounding, Verulamium.

The area was:
green
lush
verdant
hilly
warm
other things

The cathedral was:
Gothic
AND Saxon in architectural style
made of brick
AND other quarried items from the old Roman town

The cream tea at a local tea house was:
luscious
delicious
decadent
inexpensive
satisfying

The bus ride was:
longer than expected
bouncy in a bus

The museum was:
small
not completely impressive
not completely necessary
somewhat interesting
soporific

The old theatre was:
pretty awesome
mossy
quite old
rocky
day-dream inducing


The day was informative, the sun was shining, and the shrine of St Alban was a lot smaller than it appeared in the lecture power point picture yesterday.

Yet, I am always learning.
The vomitorium is not where Romans went to vomit after eating gluttonously so they could go back for seconds (bingeing and purgeing et cetera.)
A vomitorium is actually a craftily widened hallway placed underneath the seats that leads out of a theatre to the outside, so that the theatre may spew out the audience at a quicker rate rather than a clump of the entertained audience attempting to fit into a single file line at once at the end of a performance in the theatre.

News to me.

I have some things to catch up on. But sleep, for once, is not one of them! I think some of the house is making an evening of the Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers. Last night it was (shocker here) The Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe tomorrow, they'll get really crazy and watch The Return of the King. Who knows?

Tomorrow, our programme is having a Happy Unbirthday Party. I'm making dark chocolate truffles for the baking competition (which is really just a ploy to get baked goods to the Alice in Wonderland tea party.) Now what shall I wear? My friend Lis is thinking of going as the doormouse, dressing all in brown and acting extremely tired. Sounds appealing. The Mad Hatter and the March Hare characters are already spoken for. I'll see what I can do.

If only I had the perfect blue dress, white apron and small kitten...

Cheers!