Food and friends and wine and hot baths
Aug. 4th, 2012 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe've been having a pleasantly sociable time, though that's pretty much all I have to say about it. D.'s visit last weekend, lunch with friends on Wednesday, friends to dinner on Thursday - two couples, thanks to one of those last minute inspirations (why don't we invite --- as well?) which don't always work but did on this occasion. And tomorrow another house guest, someone we used to share a flat with in London and haven't seen since - so obviously I'm a touch nervous about it.
This afternoon we slipped out between showers and visited Binchester Roman fort - not a lot to see compared to the Wall forts, though in its day it was extensive: the largest fort, they said, between York and Edinburgh. Most of it is unexcavated, though work continues, and the portion that has been excavated includes a remarkably well preserved bath house. Some of the tiles have the letters NCON, which apparently identifies the troops stationed there:
This was lying on a table in the museum / activity area - can it really be an actual Roman tile?
And home via Tesco's, if not exactly under the arch of the rainbow then past both stubs of its broken bow.
This afternoon we slipped out between showers and visited Binchester Roman fort - not a lot to see compared to the Wall forts, though in its day it was extensive: the largest fort, they said, between York and Edinburgh. Most of it is unexcavated, though work continues, and the portion that has been excavated includes a remarkably well preserved bath house. Some of the tiles have the letters NCON, which apparently identifies the troops stationed there:
This was lying on a table in the museum / activity area - can it really be an actual Roman tile?
And home via Tesco's, if not exactly under the arch of the rainbow then past both stubs of its broken bow.
