ramblings as I try to work something out

[incandescens]

So, let's see. If the British Museum was established in 1753, and the British Museum of Natural History in South Kensington was created as a branch institution in 1887, then for the pseudo-Victorian setting I have in mind, the Museum of Natural History would potentially exist. So I ought to set the stuffed animals scene there.

But since the British Library per se was created in 1973, and previously it was dispersed in different parts of London, including in Bloomsbury (within the British Museum), I can have it as still inside the British Museum if I want.

So first our heroes go to the Natural History museum on a false trail, then to the British Museum, and finally to the Library part. Yes. That works. Plus we get a cross-London chase scene.

. . . though it won't cross the Thames. Drat. I will just have to find somewhere else to put dragon/Thames interaction.

Also, on a totally different note, here are photos of the baby poncho that I just completed for a friend's granddaughter. (Started to run out of the original colour partway through, hence the stripes and hood and pocket in a different shade, but I don't think it came out too badly.)

Front view
Back view

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Comments

[evilmagnus]

Plus we get a cross-London chase scene.

...with hanson cabs.

[incandescens]

Definitely hansom cabs. Ether-powered ones?

[evilmagnus]

I prefer discovering the endurance and encumbrance limits of said cabs by using an old knacker that's one bad winter away from being 'put out to pasture' at the Smithfield market ... but sure, ether-powered is cool, too.

[incandescens]

Or our protagonists could always take the Tube . . .

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

The baby poncho is very cute, but I can't help wondering... does a baby need pockets on its garments? (This is just the sort of thing I don't need to think about, and yet I do.)

[incandescens]

I wouldn't have thought so, but one person on Ravelry commented that the baby always used to drop their dummy into that pocket when they let go of it, so you never know. :)

[rvdammit.livejournal.com]

"though it won't cross the Thames. Drat"

Only if they take a directish route. Nothing wrong with a chasee trying to lay a false trail...

[incandescens]

Good point!