In the armour exhibition there are a group of carved horses belonging to kings. Three of them are shades of yellow-this one being the brightest. The title of this post is what we overheard a little boy asking his Dad. A very good question I thought! Joan started talking to him and we also found out that he thinks he will be clever when he is eleven, but isn't yet!
When I downloaded the photos this ghostly face appeared!!!!! 
Here he is again-in a case of wooden carved Kings.
All the pretty horses. The best thing about the day, we all agreed, was the boat trip on the Thames Clipper. I don't know why my film has come out this small, but it will give you an idea of how fast it was! If you are ever here, or live here and have not been on it, go on it! It was very exciting. 30 knots. This is about 35 miles an hour. We were beaten by a cormorant flying past low to the water at one point!
The worst thing about the day was the shocking cost of a flapjack. £2.50! How can that be? Needless to say we didn't have lunch there. We went to a subway-which I have never been to before and was quite fun. I didn't realise you chose all your fillings and got big wodges of salad with it too. Oh-and if you want to see the crown jewels, get there early before a huge queue builds up. We didn't see them!
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It was mum's birthday yesterday! we spent most of it in the car coming back down. I haven't been to the tower since I was a teenager and i'm always mening to go back. Great pics. Henry the eighth was apparently considered very tall indeed by the tiny tudor people. He was really pissed off when he heard that Francis first of France was the same height, as he was quite proud of the fact!
I thought Ann Boleyn's ghost walked The Bloody Tower not Enery the Eighth's. That is a spooky photo! Fun to see all those historical things and places through your camera instead of some dry documentary with an even more dry narration. So, WERE all the horses yellow back then?
Henry VIII was about 6' - a giant in his time when most men were about 5'7".
The Thames Clipper is wonderful, isn't it? Susannah took me to Canary Wharf where her brother works (and now her) and we had lunch together. Then we went on another Clipper to Greenwich. I'm sure I'd be happy to travel to work on that each day :-)
Glad you had a good day - I've only been to the Tower of London once. I would go again but the queues . . .
Happy birthday to Joan :-)
To be clever at age eleven is quite a goal! The entire time i lived in London I never went to the towers- there were a lot of things I did not do- must remedy that...loved you day out and about, wish i could have been along with. Enry was an icky man...
Looks like you guys had a really fun trip!
We like Subway too!
It's years since I last went to the Towers and don't remember the yellow horses, although I do recall a lot of Henry stuff. Never done the boat trip on the Clipper though and that sounds like fun! Hope you have a good long weekend in store xx
y'all have way cool stuff in your shops!!!
that was a really awesome armour...
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