Categories: spoiler
Date: 14 September 2009 10:50:15
So many places I could have been on Saturday, but in the event I had an ENT appointment at an unearthly hour, which determined that by mid morning I was in the centre of Edinburgh with time to spare. So I popped into an exhibition in the National Gallery on the Mound. It was entitled "The Discovery of Spain", and subtitled "British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso". I must have missed part of it, because I got nowhere near Picasso, but I enjoyed references to Velazquez, Goya, and El Greco.
I met up with the rest of the family around lunchtime, and in the afternoon we watched Lickety Spit's retelling of the story of the Hare and the Tortoise. As might be expected in these PC days, neither creature achieved outright victory.
In more competitive spirit in the evening, we took part in a quiz night - where I was somewhat annoyed when I was told that I would only get a half point for 'the world wide web' as the answer to 'which modern method of communication was Tim Berners-Lee responsible for'. Apparently, the correct answer is 'the internet' ...
[In fairness I should mention that the actual marking was being done by one of the other teams, and they quietly gave us the full point.]