The Hunterian Museum, at the Royal College of Surgeons, by Holborn, is rad. It's a lovely collection of bits of animal, people, all sitting in Formaldehyde for the last few hundred years, when some chap called Hunter collected them. Some of them are pretty fucked up- there's a section entitled 'Morbid Anatomy' which is bits of people saved after being inflicted with some nasty illnesses- there's a cross section of someone's face after their nose was rotted off by Syphilis, for example, amongst other favourites. Here are a couple of tasters that I managed to snap on the phone before getting a telling off, and no, the Skull isn't mine....I particularly like the drawing of the person being hypnotized. I was my hands did that.
Village Green Festival thing at Chalkwell park was really good fun. Pretty much everyone in Leigh turned up and there wasn't any oiks hanging around which showed Leigh up to be the middle class utopia that it professes to be, but that was quite nice really in a way. Billy Bragg helped them all stick it to the man, as he tends to do at such things. I didn't explore too much as I was manning my stall but it was nice and we met loads of people. There's a video of Darren, Pete and I on YouTube that will come up if you search for "Southend's Young Creatives Village Green" or something. Good times, well done to Daz and Pete and the Southend's Young Creatives types and the people that organised the thing.
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