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As part of a refurbishment of the ever popular Ancient Egyptian galleries, the British Museum will re-open a gallery space dedicated to Early Egypt in July. Ancient Egyptian civilisation is the product of more than 5000 years of development.

After a busy week of stitching embroidery designs, my machine is in the shop getting a well-deserved cleaning and tune up. Generally, this is something I am quite capable of doing myself, but I feel that my embroidery machine is worth it right now. And, that computer module is well beyond my scope of talent. I'll let the pros deal with it. Plus, my automatic threader needs some work. If I can't see well enough to thread a needle, I honestly can't see well enough to fix the

I was involved in an interesting conversation the other day, which involved a group of friends. They had been examining some paintings recently and one was outlining the history of those paintings to the rest of the group. It was an informative explanation and seemed to be of interest to all.Of interest to all, that is, except for one member of the group. He actually seemed to actively dislike the idea of having so much knowledge about individual works of art.