Peter Kent-Baguley

Musing on Roman numerals...

My mind wandered in a recent meeting and wondered what year was produced by arranging each Roman numeral in descending order...MDCLXVI...and that immediately reminded me of when we lived in London how I often took our two older sons up the Monument and in fact three times in 1966. 

Crowning glory: More than 200 feet above the City of London, two painters try not to spill a drop of the gold leaf being used to restore The Monument to the Great Fire of 1666. The orb - revamped only once every 100 years - will be regilded as part of a £4.5 million restoration. It will reopen early next year. PICTURE: JEFF MOORE published in today's London Evening Standard.

I must make time to revisit the top again once it has re-opened.