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Hello, Elle.
I am aghast you have never been to British Library!
I wonder can you sleep at night!
You, a keen reader, too, and it is not far off.
I would add it to your weekly itinerary.
And if it is on Euston Road, can Mr Rogan's station be far off?
Easy-ish to get to?
I think I read that tonight is about Jane Austen's letters, and something about Sir John Gielgud's notes.
The Magna Carta would be interesting to see, I'd say.
It will be in Latin?
Why would the British Library have a Business Centre?
Hope you have a nice day with your family.
Blue skies here!

The British Library is so much more than just a library and is vast... well worth a visit. My late husband was Godfather to the young Julian Harrison, who is now curator of medieval manuscripts at the BL and was co-curator of fhe Magna Carta exhibition held last year. He also co-arranged the Shakespeare Exhibition at the Library of Birmingham this year.
I share his love of Shakespeare, but am not quite so fond of the medieval archives ! Visit the website. I tried to post a link but failed

http://www.bl.uk

hope it works this time

Hello, Jazzgirl,
The website is very impressive.
The Library appears to be well worth a visit, indeed.
They even do guided tours.
(I just had a virtual tour, on YouTube)
There are several clips of the British Library on YouTube.

hello rusty
I have not seen the youtube tour, but will have a look.
I know you mentioned you are on twitter.
Julian is there...
@julianpharrison and he manages to bring his medieval manuscripts to life in a humorous way. Have a peek when you have nothing better to do

Spent the day up to now in Luton (I suupose there are worse places in the UK, "Come friendly bombs" and all that). I was at a Tang Soo Do (Korean martial art) grading. I thought what good training it was, and how a few of our uncoof yoofs could do with something like that. Even at 6 years old, my grandson had to sit still on a wood floor for what must have been an hour and be very polite and respectful to his betters. He also had to break a board with his foot. As far as we know he passed.

Good afternoon, Rusty!
You obviously are having better weather than us.
It has remained dull and rather cold here.
We enjoyed our time in the park with the children and the dog , then everyone came back here for a late lunch.
They have just left for home.
I too looked up the British Library's website.... I was certainly correct in saying it was very extensive!
But it is not all that near to me.........near enough for an occasional visit, yes, but it must be ten or eleven miles as the crow flies....so not all that quick or easy to access by public transport.
It would involve mainline trains and Tubes.
I should like to see the Magna Carta though, so we might well go there sometime.
There is an interesting exhibition at the British Museum which I am intending to go and see.
It is about Sunken Cities - you might find it interesting......see the link below.......
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/sunken_cities.aspx
What have you been up to this afternoon?

Hi Rosalind,

Congratulations on your grand-son's behaviour.

I wish there still was a 'Military Service' lasting 18 months or so just to teach some youngsters respect and obedience!

Me too, pigale. It is very difficult for a 6 year old to sit still for all that time, though I have to say the men there certainly command respect. Several young members of the class there were late, through no fault of their own (there was apparently a marathon in Luton today) but each one immediately did press ups (this is a punishment ) until the Master gave them permission to join the class. Whining about the traffic would get you nowhere.

Hello, Jazzgirl,
I had a little look at Julian's tweets.
Very interesting indeed.
I read one of his blogs about the "real" Macbeth.
A lot of it was new to me.
I also liked the tweet about Durham Cathedral.
A beautiful building.