the keeper of the library...

Ah, sleeping in... That's what saturday's are for. Nothing else exciting occurred - I went to the supermarket and watched a movie on tv in the arvo.

Sunday though, I packed my trusty camera and took the tube to Temple. The Temple Church and associated Inner and Middle Temple law chambers were having an Open Day. The weather was a balmy 14 degrees, great for wandering!

I took a peek inside the Royal Courts of Justice (pic left - where the Diana case is currently being heard - I have to fight my way through a million photographers on my way to work every morning, slightly ironic). It was amazing - a massive open foyer with a mosaic'd floor, and the court rooms were done in ornate dark wood, showing their beauty from the 1800's - but with every conceivable computer appliance fitted.

I rushed out of there to go on a guided tour of the Inner and Middle chambers, which turned out to be interesting but boring at the same time, so I snuck off to go to another talk - in the unbeliveable Temple Church (bottom left). This talk was supposed to be about the Da Vinci Code, but he seemed to be rambling and making no sense, so I left that too.

I did however seek out the Inner Temple library, and the very interesting Middle Temple Library (pic right). Trust me to be the only person there taking pictures of old books. The libraries are mostly for barristers etc, so are essentially law libraries - but the Middle Temple library has a few extras, like two old earth globes made in the 1600's, that don't have Australia on them as we hadn't been discovered yet! They don't have a librarian as such there, they have the wonderful mystery-shrouded title of Keeper of the Library!