London!

I've just got back from a few days of the Big Smoke, I went to visit my best friend, Debbie (click here to see her tumblr!) and it was perfect.  The weather couldn't have been nicer, the wine couldn't have flown any better and the company was awesome.  We took the few days we had in our stride and it was lovely.  We went on a little shopping trip to Brick Lane in Shoreditch, which was full to the brim with gorgeous little vintage shops.  How I didn't blow all my money, I have no idea!  We went for the most amazing Pizza just outside of Rough Trade's store.  It was total bliss.  


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Debbie's flat is amazing too, the view from her living room was beautiful, especially at night time.  It overlooks Canary Wharf with a backdrop of all the famous sky scrapers and buildings. I went a little snap happy!


Anyway, we also went for a wander around Oxford Circus, had a cry in Selfridges at how poor we were, went down Carnaby Street, which made me even more depressed about my lack of money - but window shopping was good enough! 


Then we hit the Wellcome Collection in Euston.  It was fantastic!  "A destination for the incurably curious". And that it was.  We went and had a look in the Medicine Now gallery, it "presents a range of ideas about science and medicine since Henry Wellcome's death in 1936. It reflects the experiences and interests of scientists, doctors and patients.

Within the huge field of medicine this exhibition attempts to focus on only a few topics: the body, genomes, malaria, obesity and living with medical science. Each is explored through a range of exhibits from science and everyday life, as well as artistic responses to the issues presented in red 'art cubes'". - Wellcome Collection Website, curated by Ken Arnold and Steve Cross.

That exhibition then led on to my favourite part of the museum - Medicine Man.  "Henry Wellcome was a man of many parts: entrepreneur, philanthropist, patron of science and pioneer of aerial photography. He also created one of the world's great museums: a vast stockpile of evidence about our universal interest in health and the body.

More than 150 years after his birth in 1853, this exhibition reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects from his collection, ranging from diagnostic dolls to Japanese sex aids, and from Napoleon's toothbrush to George III's hair. It also provides a very different perspective on some of our own obsessions with medicine and health.

In 'Medicine Man' some objects are gathered by type and others by broad cross-cultural themes. Seven other objects are presented individually and are examined by a variety of commentators from different backgrounds, to show that one object can mean many different things and tell many different stories." - Wellcome Collection Website, curated by Ken Arnold, Steve Cross and Danielle Olsen.

I completely recommend this place!