Sunday 16th - A quiet Day with Rain.

Across the Road from the Hyde Park Chapel for Church is the London Science Museum. SO I headed for the Aircraft.

With Numerous Models on the development of Flight.

But the Main show was the Real planes hanging or on the ground. Most you could touch.

The Hurricane

The Spitefire of Course

But I was here.. and the Rain had Stopped.

So Hyde Park was ready visit.

Tufted Duck

White Swans

Egyptian Geese

Great Crested Grebe

and of course the Greylag Goose

The Princess Diana Fountain Memorial

All around lake Serpintine, But it was Looking Like it was going to Rain Again.

So Harrods I was off too.

Amoungst all the department I decided that the food courts were where I wanted to be.

Olives

Cheese

Lots of Cheese

Pies

Lots of Pies.

Vegetables

Fish

Bakery

Meat

And exotic Meats, yes they had Kangaroo.

And the prices weren't that much more expensive then in other shops just very well presented.

So I thought What would Jennifer Like

The book Store of course with so many books

But it had to be the Christmas Land, all the different decorations you can buy.

And if Jennifer were here, I insist on the getting the Credit Card off her.

Just so that I didn't need a container to be shipped back.

But I was at Harrods, where I caught Bus Home.

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