Just in time we walked back at 21.12 to catch this programme on Venice and immediately, all thoughts of us going to bed at 9.00pm (on the dot) have gone out of the window and been thrown up the steps!
Oh, we do so hope that you can get to see this programme. For no camera team of archaeologists has done this depth of work before.. aided and abetted with scanners and underwater cameras.
The scanners used within the Jewish Ghetto and the Doges Palace show things that very few people, except for Venetian archaeologists, have ever seen.
Do you know where the word and practise of quarantine comes from? There's an island off the main island where ships and their passangers and loads were held for forty days and the word and practise of holding goods and people in 'quarantine' comes from Italian for forty.
The Arsenale where they made three complete ships in one day.. they made everything within these walls. Ropes, anchors, sails everything.
Casanova, having greatly upset some big wig, was arrested and tortured by the Secret Police, he was held in 'pretty' gruesome conditions for fifteen months but he and an accomplice managed to escape, they were the only people ever to escape from the Doges Palace.
In 1797 the last of the Doges surrended to Napoleon.
If you want to see this marvellous programme, go to the BBC1 website and enter invisible cities. Florence is being shown in two weeks time, yes, we'll be watching it!
We have had a very successful day indeed. A lot of work has been done. But we have a question for you and it is this.. At what point does your stuff, that you presumably bought, turn into - excuse my language - crap?
The first place she disappeared into was the old boiler cupboard where one of the cupboards that used to be in the bathroom is being put to use and lurking on the top she found a huge bag full of jam jars! All with their tops.. but then she remembered, she had collected them for a friend who makes the most delicious marmalades every year and guess which month the Seville Oranges come to town? You've got it, January.
She heaved the huge bag off the top and dragged it out into the hall. "She'd better come and collect them asap GeeGee, otherwise, they're going up to New Horizons for their members, they love jam jars!" And so the piles of 'crap' disappeared slowly, as things were put away in its' correct home or lined up either to be given away, taken to the garden or disposed of.
Then she pulled out several articles of clothing that she has to try on, but she has a feeling they'll be leaving. She's a mini-miss compared to when she wore these lovely clothes.
Ok, now it is time to go to bed.. I'd been sitting very quietly upon her head but twitched and she immediately looked at her watch! So off I go, I know, I still have to tell you about her trip to her optician, maybe tomorrow.
I wonder if we'll get snow tonight? There's a huge snowstorm apparently heading our way. Thank goodness she bought food on her way home yesterday!
Bedtime.. Chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 11th, 2017.
Oh, we do so hope that you can get to see this programme. For no camera team of archaeologists has done this depth of work before.. aided and abetted with scanners and underwater cameras.
The scanners used within the Jewish Ghetto and the Doges Palace show things that very few people, except for Venetian archaeologists, have ever seen.
Do you know where the word and practise of quarantine comes from? There's an island off the main island where ships and their passangers and loads were held for forty days and the word and practise of holding goods and people in 'quarantine' comes from Italian for forty.
The Arsenale where they made three complete ships in one day.. they made everything within these walls. Ropes, anchors, sails everything.
Casanova, having greatly upset some big wig, was arrested and tortured by the Secret Police, he was held in 'pretty' gruesome conditions for fifteen months but he and an accomplice managed to escape, they were the only people ever to escape from the Doges Palace.
In 1797 the last of the Doges surrended to Napoleon.
If you want to see this marvellous programme, go to the BBC1 website and enter invisible cities. Florence is being shown in two weeks time, yes, we'll be watching it!
We have had a very successful day indeed. A lot of work has been done. But we have a question for you and it is this.. At what point does your stuff, that you presumably bought, turn into - excuse my language - crap?
The first place she disappeared into was the old boiler cupboard where one of the cupboards that used to be in the bathroom is being put to use and lurking on the top she found a huge bag full of jam jars! All with their tops.. but then she remembered, she had collected them for a friend who makes the most delicious marmalades every year and guess which month the Seville Oranges come to town? You've got it, January.
She heaved the huge bag off the top and dragged it out into the hall. "She'd better come and collect them asap GeeGee, otherwise, they're going up to New Horizons for their members, they love jam jars!" And so the piles of 'crap' disappeared slowly, as things were put away in its' correct home or lined up either to be given away, taken to the garden or disposed of.
Then she pulled out several articles of clothing that she has to try on, but she has a feeling they'll be leaving. She's a mini-miss compared to when she wore these lovely clothes.
Ok, now it is time to go to bed.. I'd been sitting very quietly upon her head but twitched and she immediately looked at her watch! So off I go, I know, I still have to tell you about her trip to her optician, maybe tomorrow.
I wonder if we'll get snow tonight? There's a huge snowstorm apparently heading our way. Thank goodness she bought food on her way home yesterday!
Bedtime.. Chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 11th, 2017.
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