Let the blog see the rabbit...

Having come across some of Damien Hirst's works of art with medication (such as the "Untitled pill and syringe" series and cupboards full of medicine bottles and boxes) a couple of weeks ago, it occurred to me how easy it would be for me to do something along the same lines given the large quantities of prescription medication I take every day.

So as an experiment, I saved all the packaging from my drugs over the last two weeks and then took photos of it. You can see the results in my gallery. I was slightly surprised at how much there was - it didn't even all fit in the (admittedly small) carrier bag I was collecting it in.

Something tells me I won't be making my fortune this way though...

Yesterday was quite a busy day for me.

My dad coaches chess at two schools in Saffron Walden on a Thursday, but because his arthritis was affecting his knee, he couldn't drive, so I volunteered to drive him there - after all, an opportunity to drive the Prius shouldn't be missed! ;-)

After he'd finished at his first school, we went to Saffron Walden Museum. I had heard Pam Ayres mention on Radio 4 that they have Wallace the lion there. He was allegedly the lion in "The Lion and Albert", a monologue by Marriott Edgar. After looking around for a while, we found him:

After an hour or so, it was time to go to the second school, Dame Bradbury's. There, I worked on my HTML lecture, which I gave at the SoSLUG meeting in the evening.

Before that though, I had a question to ask at the Council meeting, which we got back to Southend just in time for.