London Worldcon bid

And after a certain amount of aggravation, including discovering that Paypal will not allow me to pay for British con membership with my US Paypal account, I have finally managed to throw money at the London in 2014 Worldcon bid. I have bought a Friend level pre-supporting, on the grounds that I'd *really* like Worldcon to come somewhere where I do not need to get on a plane to go to it, and they're offering a good deal to Friends on full membership if they win the bid.

Of course, this is likely to end up in me having a cheap membership for sale a couple of weeks before the con, when I discover that I can't get to the con anyway...

Treasures of Lambeth Palace Library Exhibition: Summer 2010

Picked up from the CofE twitter feed:

http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/content/treasuresexhibition

"Highlights of the exhibition include:

* The MacDurnan Gospels, written and illuminated in Ireland in the 9th century
* The Lambeth Bible, masterpiece of Romanesque art
* 13th century Lambeth Apocalypse
* A Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455, the first great book printed in Western Europe from movable metal type
* Books owned and used by King Richard III, King Henry VIII, Queen Katherine of Aragon, Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I as well as landmark texts in the history of the Church of England
* An exceptionally rare edition of the Babylonian Talmud which survived a 1553 Papal Bull ordering all copies to be burnt, which was rediscovered in 1992
* The warrant for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
* Papers of archbishops, bishops and leaders of church and state, ranging from the 13th century to the modern day, including papers relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire and physicians' reports on the illness of King George III."

I think I will have to see if I can get a cheap day ticket to London...