Winchester choir stalls and other fancies

We had a day trip to Winchester on the first day of the long Jubilee weekend. Our first trip was to the museum where, it being half term, activities were happening. As we approached, a family with a small child were talking to the Roman soldier who was stationed outside. As we queued, the small girl charged in, bypassed the short queue, and declaimed in a VERY loud voice, "we're coming in! We're going upstairs to make a crown and do some lovely activities." She repeated this many, many times - it was always "some lovely activities" - and earnestly told the staff that these "lovely activities" were upstairs. "And then we're buying a wooden sword," she said, many, many times. Pellinor and I were highly amused, and when our turn came to be served, we let her family go first, saying that we couldn't be so cruel as to delay by even a minute her "lovely activities." All was all in her delivery, really. We both found the whole thing hilarious.

Later, we were having lunch at a very good pizza place just opposite the museum, and saw her come out, complete with crown and wooden sword. The Roman soldier got attacked. (Mind you, I think he deserved it. We'd just witnessed him taking advantage of a quiet moment to write "romanes eunt domus" on the ground, clearly trying to frame the People's Front of Venta Bulgarum.)

Anyway, after lunch we went to the cathedral, which offered up no comical lions, but a very comical unicorn and many other comic delights.

( The comical creatures of Winchester )