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Sep. 14th, 2012 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
london1952Earlier in the week I attended a social evening celebrating our current exhibition "The Plant Seekers", and the guest speaker was Michael Palin, well known these days for his travels, and of course being part of the Monty Python brigade in the past. It was a very pleasant evening and Michael gave a very entertaining speech. Our museum director also spoke, and a lady from (high up in) the RHS finished off the speeches with thanks, and managed to sail through not only getting the museum name wrong but also that of the director (which brought smirks all around), .....one of the disappearing true English eccentrics ! The exhibition is the first one to be co-partnershiped by the RHS Lindley Library.
There was a Tradescant-inspired buffet with a pineapple centre-piece - John Tradescant brought the first pineapple to England for Charles I in the 17th century.
There is an interesting article by Victoria Summerley of the Independent newspaper.... here
There was a Tradescant-inspired buffet with a pineapple centre-piece - John Tradescant brought the first pineapple to England for Charles I in the 17th century.
There is an interesting article by Victoria Summerley of the Independent newspaper.... here
