British Museum - bronze bells

On the way in, there's a row of bronze temple bells, some from the Qing dynasty.  They're as tall as a child and they probably weigh ten times as much.  But they're not for ringing.  They sit on their rims, like statues.

In the Indonesian National Museuam there are bronze drums from Vietnam, and outside a bronze elephant, a gift from the King of Siam, Chulalongkorn, on a state visit to the Dutch East Indies in 1871.  In return, he is said to have received Buddhist statues from the temple at Borobudur.

My purse runs to less substantial artefacts - less statuary, more implements of daily life - a tartan scarf from Edinburgh, a book at the airport, a new set of pencils.

At Canary Wharf there was a spectacular sunset.  I made a drawing.