New and unusual working life means I now have the luxury of Wednesdays OFF. Well, the idea is supposed to be that I use the time for studying, but how could I resist spending the first of these ‘Wed-study-days’ out and about.
My destination of choice for such mini-adventures is currently the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Here are some of the things that caught my eye.
![woman pouring](https://i0.wp.com/rhianwen.com/wp-content/uploads/ashmolean-woman-pouring1.jpg?resize=568%2C461)
![japanese drawing](https://i0.wp.com/rhianwen.com/wp-content/uploads/ashmolean-japanese-art2.jpg?resize=702%2C416)
![cast gallery view](https://i0.wp.com/rhianwen.com/wp-content/uploads/ashmolean-cast-gallery-view2.jpg?resize=655%2C877)
![statue of terpsichore](https://i0.wp.com/rhianwen.com/wp-content/uploads/ashmolean-terpsichore2.jpg?resize=721%2C886)
![statue of aphrodite](https://i0.wp.com/rhianwen.com/wp-content/uploads/ashmolean-aphrodite2.jpg?resize=703%2C890)
If Aphrodite has lost her head, what hope do we mere mortals have, I wonder.
![entrance stairwell skylight](https://i0.wp.com/rhianwen.com/wp-content/uploads/ashmolean-entrance-stairwell2.jpg?resize=661%2C868)