on new year's eve, Frauke and i went to visit the Writer's Museum just off the top of the Royal Mile (the cobble stoned road which separates the Castle and the Palace is exactly a mile long) in Lady Stair's Close (FYI, a close is a narrow alley way) and in the exhibit which gives an overview of the lives of three of Scotland's best known writers, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns (poet), and Robert Louis Stevenson, i discovered something which i found rather amusing: Robert Louis Stevenson -- the author well-known for his stories, "The Mystery Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "The Treasure Island", used to keep a notebook to jote down his observations and muse and called it his "... book of original nonsense"!
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 2 January, 2005 at 02:43 hrssounds like you had fun in a terrific place! Oh, I wish I could visit too. Thanks for sharing the picture. I love it - am saving it for my desktop. =)
Posted by: monoceros on Monday, 3 January, 2005 at 20:06 hrscool... glad you liked it!
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