The weather has been dark and dreary for the most part all week, and in the last 2 days the temperature has dropped a fair bit. I think it was around 0 degrees or maybe slightly below. (I say this knowing that this week it's been as low as -25 in Toronto and -35 in Ottawa, so I realize that this probably sounds tropical!)
We just got back to our flat after spending the day 'uptown' in the Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross areas. For one of my assignments I needed a copy of an article that unfortunately Brunel's library did not have access to - although their selection of electroni
c journals is really vast, this just happened to be one that they didn't have a subscription to. I was told by the school librarian that I could either order a copy from the British Library for £7.50, or haul myself down to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where they have the only paper copy of the journal in London and photocopy it. I opted for the latter - the LSHTM (or just "the London School" as it is often called) is an English institution known very well to public health people (but probably not to many people outside that area). When I told people at work that I was going to study public health in London, the inevitable response was "At the London School?". So I wanted to take the opportunity to at least see this famous educational establishment. The young woman at the desk was extremely helpful, and was actually a Brunel alumni. Unfortunately the one journal issue that I needed was (of course) not in the box because it was away for binding, but she very kindly printed me a copy from their electronic holdings since she knew how far I had come to get it.
We just got back to our flat after spending the day 'uptown' in the Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross areas. For one of my assignments I needed a copy of an article that unfortunately Brunel's library did not have access to - although their selection of electroni
c journals is really vast, this just happened to be one that they didn't have a subscription to. I was told by the school librarian that I could either order a copy from the British Library for £7.50, or haul myself down to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where they have the only paper copy of the journal in London and photocopy it. I opted for the latter - the LSHTM (or just "the London School" as it is often called) is an English institution known very well to public health people (but probably not to many people outside that area). When I told people at work that I was going to study public health in London, the inevitable response was "At the London School?". So I wanted to take the opportunity to at least see this famous educational establishment. The young woman at the desk was extremely helpful, and was actually a Brunel alumni. Unfortunately the one journal issue that I needed was (of course) not in the box because it was away for binding, but she very kindly printed me a copy from their electronic holdings since she knew how far I had come to get it. After our adventure at the LSHTM (and approximately one thousand hygiene-related jokes on Keith's part) we headed to Charing Cross and the National Portrait Gallery. Aft
er a nice lunch across from Trafalgar Square, we spent the afternoon hobnobbing with portraits of the rich and famous (and dead - we were in the Tudor and Regency sections and ran out of steam by the Victorian era). We will head back again at some point and see the rest of the gallery. I think it's one of my favourite galleries - and I liked it even better this time after reading more English history and understanding better who people were, and spending time in the places where these people lived and worked.
er a nice lunch across from Trafalgar Square, we spent the afternoon hobnobbing with portraits of the rich and famous (and dead - we were in the Tudor and Regency sections and ran out of steam by the Victorian era). We will head back again at some point and see the rest of the gallery. I think it's one of my favourite galleries - and I liked it even better this time after reading more English history and understanding better who people were, and spending time in the places where these people lived and worked. 
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