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We did Day 1 of Open House London with Harri, Lloyd and Patrick, travelling exclusively on foot and by boat with two-for-one River Roamers. (Apart from the bit at the start where our alarm clock failed and we had to race up to London on a train, run from
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Passing the boat that Rachel and other Londonist types spent the weekend on but we sadly didn't have time to visit!
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Incorporated a bit of a legal angle into Day 1's timetable for Harri's enjoyment - starting here, at the Supreme Court on Parliament Square.
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Commonwealth flags. We wondered if loads of these countries would've had to change their flags if the Union Flag had changed as a result of a Yes vote in last week's Scottish independence referendum. Guess we'll never know now (for 'a generation', at leas
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The Supreme Court's carpet is pretty good - the national flowers/plants of the UK's four constituent countries (blimey, another thing that would've needed work if Scotland'd gone independent!). The leek looks a bit like a plunger, mind you.
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Gift to the UK Supreme Court from Canada. I assume they chip away a bit more glass each year we fail to deal adequately with climate change, for realism.
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Which came first: this emblem, whatever it is, or Abram Games' Festival of Britain logo?
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Supreme Court 1 gets the biggest carpet design of the lot, forming a kind of pupil in an eye bounded by court desks.
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Supreme Court no. 2 - my favourite. Modern, light, stylish. If I ever need to refer a case to the highest court in the country, I'll request this one.
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Modern, with a particularly stylish glass UK national flowers emblem - Supreme Court no. 2
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Lloyd relaxes in front of the back wall of Supreme Court no. 2, with its pleasingly arranged Eleanor Roosevelt quotation. Both sides, get it? :)
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We could only look around the higher level. Downstairs looked like a pretty good space to read up on a bit of law.
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Second Open House London visit of Day 1: the Treasury building, here seen in model form in one of its rooms.
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Can't fault the colour choice for these slightly unexpected blank banners dangling above part of the Treasury.
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Third Open House London stop: the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Ludicrously grand, although this otherwise pristine corridor could probably have done without the Costa sign.
