HARRODS Revisited

Sunday 19 July 2009

We went again to Harrods at Kensington, just to see whatever is left of the Great Sale. We ended up buying nothing that day, maybe because the discount was not good enough as compared to our Malaysian Ringgit. However, we passed through the Dodi-Diana Memorial set up by the owner of Harrods, Al-Fayed, in memory of his son who passed away with Lady Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, in a car accident in Paris in August 1997. As always, it was very crowded with visitors taking photos, especially of the beautiful diamond ring, supposedly the engagement ring that Dodi was to give to Diana.

A little bit further away from the Memorial, I was attracted to some pieces of sculpture being displayed on the Eyptian Floor (Lower Ground) of Harrods. There was this piece of wood, claimed to be 30,000,000 years old! I felt it, it was hard and cold as stone.

The Egyptian ambiance recreated in this section of Harrods reminded me of the fact that

palm oil was first discovered as one of the artefacts and remains kept in the tomb of one of the mummies about 5,000 BC. That showed that palm oil was being used a long, long time ago.