The last week of May

Last Saturday we went to Manchester for the day one of the places we visited was the John Rylands Library. It is a wonderful building

 Ceiling bosses

 I like the way the old and new fit together

The card index system and a hint of the books. Photographs of the building is allowed but  not the exhibits.

On Tuesday it was my birthday and I had some lovely gifts and

 cards.

 Including a set of Call the Midwife dvds,  The Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds CD ( I bought it originally as an LP way back in the "olden days' )

an elephant

and flowers.