LONDON — This morning was wet. The weather is supposed to be clear and dry tomorrow but rain is expected to return on Tuesday. I went to the Natural History Museum this morning and arrived in the rain to discover that they were very busy and that I could expect to be in the queue for up to two hours. As it transpired I only need to wait in the queue and the rain and the occasional gust of wind for about twenty minutes.

Once inside I went and had a look at one of the ticketed special exhibitions: the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year. All of the photographs on display were beautiful and many were exceptional.
Returning to the entrance hall I joined the the queue for the dinosaur gallery—I couldn’t leave without visiting the dinosaurs again. This queue moved slower and so took longer, but after about forty minutes I was renewing my acquaintance with the dinosaurs.

I went back to the National Gallery specifically to enquire about their print on demand service—could you take one home with you or did you have to wait for it to arrive by post? As it turned out it is printed there and then depending on how many are in the queue. So I bought my print and was able to see it being printed out on the A0 printer.