[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-dim-sum-and-oddities":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today I got to see one of my best mateys, Mags, who normally lives in Brussels but was in London for work. We tried out \u003Ca href=\"http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/shop-eat-drink/restaurants/ping-pong\">Ping Pong\u003C/a> on the South Bank and pronounced it very tasty. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/magspingpong-ce4485bbbc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThen we popped over to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\">Wellcome Collection\u003C/a> on the way back to the Eurostar terminal and had a good gape at all their medical oddities. We very much liked their collection of artificial limbs and had a giggle over these objects. The first is a 'Claxton Earcap', an English device from 1925-36 for parents to put over their children's ears at night while they're sleeping to try to get their ears to stop sticking out. (Which makes no sense to me as I'm rather partial to sticky-out ears. I think it's a hangover from studying so many Norman Rockwell pictures as a kid.) The other is a wedding gift chamber pot.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wellcom2-a1d066c660.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe inscription reads: \\r\n\u003Ci>Marriage. This Pot it is A Present Sent.\\r\nSome mirth to make is only Meant.\\r\nWe hope the same you'll not Refuse.\\r\nBut keep it safe and oft it Use.\\r\nWhen in it you want to Piss\\r\nRemember them who sent you This.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nWe also saw \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/uploads2010/wellcom3.jpg\">this strange waxwork\u003C/a>, which was quite startling in its size and corpulence but also amazingly detailed and reminded me of paintings by \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Saville\">Jenny Saville\u003C/a> (who's influenced a lot of \u003Ca href=\"http://marymcintyre.wordpress.com/\">my sister's paintings\u003C/a>).\\r\n\\r\nLinky link: Stephen Betts of comics translation website \u003Cb>Comix Influx\u003C/b> just posted about \u003Ca href=\"http://comixinflux.com/influx/blogpost/64\">Woodrow Phoenix's trip to India\u003C/a>. Good post, and if you're interested in reading comics in other languages, or fancy having a go at translating a comic yourself, have a browse around the website.","2010-03-19T17:20:00.000Z","dim-sum-and-oddities",[],"dim sum and oddities",1776628717818]