Categories: ramblings
Date: 23 September 2007 17:42:08
and when I die, there will be a demon with pitchfork waiting to greet me.
Kew Gardens' big winter exhibition is the largest collection of Henry Moore sculptures ever seen in London.
There's big signs up saying "please do not climb on the sculptures," because if you're going to take on several tons of bronze, you'd better be less squishy than your average small child.
However, at least one woman had decided that this rule didn't apply to her, since she wanted a photograph of little Tarquin and Jocasta on one of the sculptures.
Little Tarquin promptly fell off.
I, and the member of Kew staff who had asked the woman to get her children off the statue, looked at each other and sniggered.