The Quay

A drizzly, dull and damp day here today, but fortunately I was inside most of the day. This morning I went to my Archaeology U3A group meeting at Blakeney, so arrived early so I could walk down to the quay to take a blip of the boats and the wonderful Blakeney Hotel. The talk was on The Archaeology of Tattooing, which I was a bit doubtful about before the talk, but it was actually very interesting. It was also a bit gruesome in places, too gruesome for a blip! It seems that tattooing has been with us for a very long time, and in some cultures was only for use by women and the higher status you were, the more tattoos you had. I sat near a retired doctor who was telling me how many more people have tattoos these days including lots of women, unlike when he first started out.