Ali and Debra and I finally got to meet up at Tate Britain to see the refurb and the new hang. The staircases are spectacular – very fine indeed. And the new hang, of which […]
punting
We took Tim’s father’s paintings to Damian in Cambridge so that he could photograph them. It was a doubly successful delivery trip in that Robin had found somewhere which would take all the old computer […]
desert outing
I’m not a rock photographer, clearly… but the music was wonderful. Dan gave me the Tinariwen tickets for Christmas; Sarah S came with me and we had a terrific evening.
i want one of those
…or maybe I don’t. Anyway, I can’t have it as it’s on sale in a shop I would never buy anything from. Whoever thought of that?
spaces
To the Royal Academy to see the Sensing Spaces exhibition. It’s a series of rooms in which different architects/architectural practices have been asked to explore the space. The lack of pretension and a complete absence […]
more birthday
Dan and Em, as well as cooking a fantastic meal for us, presented me with this wonderful object. As I had to guess what it was for, everyone else will, too. And the Haitian music […]
birthday
Rachel took me to lunch at Little Bay in Kilburn for my birthday. Such a really lovely thing to do, and the flowers were wonderful.
a day by the sea
On a brilliantly bright Sunday to Two Tree Island, one of the few places we’d not yet been to on the Essex coast out of London. It’s a bird sanctuary, has a knee-friendly path all […]
a night at the theatre
The 50th anniversary production of Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War at Stratford East, with Tim and Jennie and Hannah. It’s a theatre we love, as much for its outside as its inside theatre […]
more drawing again
Our visits are somewhat sporadic, but I’m still getting a lot out of our life class in Hampstead. It really pays to go regularly, and I think so far I haven’t had one repeat of […]