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essayelAnd thank goodness for that. I've been sat in front of the tv all week [because that's where the fire is] and I've written nothing at all. And because I haven't been using my brain I've been asleep most evenings by ten and awake at 4 and far too cold to get out of bed and go to where my old PC is.
I so want to get on and write about cutting out expeditions and cannon fire and the reluctant admission that that particular kiss was the best thing that ever happened. Oh and treasure!
I'm having difficulty getting real pieces of eight for next years exhibition, however www.medievalmerchant.co.uk will sell me nine first rate facsimiles for £12.50. I can display one of those and I won't have to guarantee someone to sit and look at it all day as I would have if I borrowed one from the National Museum of Wales.
I met a real live author today! :D Bettina Selby - she wrote travel books about riding her bike in unlikely places, like to the source of the Nile and through the Hindu Kush. I'll have to look out for them.
I so want to get on and write about cutting out expeditions and cannon fire and the reluctant admission that that particular kiss was the best thing that ever happened. Oh and treasure!
I'm having difficulty getting real pieces of eight for next years exhibition, however www.medievalmerchant.co.uk will sell me nine first rate facsimiles for £12.50. I can display one of those and I won't have to guarantee someone to sit and look at it all day as I would have if I borrowed one from the National Museum of Wales.
I met a real live author today! :D Bettina Selby - she wrote travel books about riding her bike in unlikely places, like to the source of the Nile and through the Hindu Kush. I'll have to look out for them.
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Date: 2010-12-09 08:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-10 10:09 pm (UTC)Wait!! Your TV is on fire?????
On a more rational note...
Argument for = They will look the same and are far safer to display.
Argument against = People expect to see real artifacts when they go to a museum.
I think I'd go with the facsimiles just in case one or more of them decides to grow feet and go wandering. Plus people could actually handle them. A perfect solution would be to have a genuine one locked in a non-disappear-able/non-breakable glass case with the fake ones to see "up close".
OOHHH! You could have a suit of armour standing there with a nice sharp axe and a laser trip mechanism, so that if anyone reached for the galss case the axe would fall and chop their hand(s) off! Or a sword of Damocles that would fall on a wrong-doer! A moat of alligators around the box! Snakes....why did it have to be snakes?... An "example" hung from a yard arm, though that's a little tough to find volunteers for. A petard to hoist such a person upon!
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Date: 2010-12-12 09:47 am (UTC)Not at the moment but I did once set fire to my dishwasher so i guess it's just a matter of time.
A perfect solution would be to have a genuine one locked in a non-disappear-able/non-breakable glass case with the fake ones to see "up close".
Absolutely perfect but it would mean having an extra custodian sitting by the case for the 4 months of the exhibition. We can't afford that. It made sense when we borrowed £4 million worth of statuary back in 2008 but for a 1 inch coin worth about £150 - no, it's just not worth it. We'll have to get buy with what we have.
:( it would have been nice though.