Aside: I wrote my first blog posts 10 years ago today. They weren’t especially insightful or useful, but they gave me something to do on slow afternoons after work. Ten years is a long time to do anything, it is fairly old for a blog. But this one is still moving along. Here’s to the next 10 years!

And now we continue on with the Catching up feature. This is the 112th edition of Catching up, where we normally share leftover photos that didn’t land anywhere else during the week. The time frame this time is a bit longer as we get back into the swing of things. With that, let us begin.

This is the lock on one of the doors in the Churchill War Museum in London. It protects Room G, which is Plant Room No. 7. During the war this room provided power to the underground offices and was restricted to H.M.O.W. staff only. Now it is part museum piece, part banquet hall that can be rented out.

In the little cantina in the Churchhill War Museum. The cup on the right sat on every table and held sugar and other sweeteners. The one on the left held my vegetable soup, which was essentially a pureed squash with a few other ingredients:

You see crazy things on public transportation in the U.S., but we didn’t see anything like that on the Underground in London. This lady was the extent of the eccentricity:

It rained almost the entire day we were on the Aran island of Inishmore in Ireland. But the water that came into the cove that protected Kilmurvey Beach was beautiful even still. You’d love to see that water on a clear day. Several rare plant species are listed in this area and the birds are of “international significance.”

One of the few things about Ireland that was a bit frustrating was that there were so many ancient things that didn’t come with great descriptions. But ancient is relative when you’re showing off 4,000 year old churches and forts. Who knows what this building, near the bronze age fort of Dun Aengus once meant:

This was the doorknob to our restroom in the hotel we stayed in outside of Dublin. It was a fancy place:

In the future all bacon will come from a machine like this:

National Geographic included Auburn’s Old Rotation in a list of the world’s longest running experiments. This is a mini-bail commemorating the 100th anniversary of the experiment:

An interesting use of wine bottles at Warehouse Bistro in Opelika:

This is the Roasted Vegetables with Basil Pesto crepe from the Crepe Myrtle Cafe in Auburn. It has roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, squash, zucchini, caramelized onions, red and green roasted sweet peppers, parmesan cheese and basil pesto sauce. It was delicious.