As I’m close to the Tower of London, here, I’m going to go and see it, either today or tomorrow, or both days?  Get me, crazy right ?

I read up a bit about it 2 days ago. Hell of a history, obviously. It’s almost a thousand years old, give or take a century.  I’m not an historian, so it was all fairly new to me, other than the Beefeaters and the Ravens, and the torture.

When Queen Victoria was in charge of GB, she had Tower bridge made to ‘ complement ‘ the Tower – it’s only stone cladding over a metal structure, that one.  The Bridge and the Tower were the Disney of their day, I read. They tarted up the Tower with golden orbs to match the ones on the Bridge.

They used to keep lions, wolves and bears in the Tower grounds ( and an elephant ) and when it became a tourist attraction in the 1800’s you had to pay to go in and mooch around. If you’re squeamish, don’t read the next bit….

If you took your family pet dog or cat, you’d get half price admission…. on the basis that you’d have to ……..

…… feed your pet to the lions.

Those Victorians were nice peeps, right?

I told Mark that last night. He didn’t really react, but then said ‘ Did that apply to taking your kids too?’

🙂