Pictures from normality: I went to London on Sunday and I a) went to an exhibition, b) had a lovely lunch in a proper restaurant and c) went to an actual (albeit distanced) theatre. Photo evidence below, plus a load of meme catch up ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the exhibition at Tate Britain, a solo show by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. It's the first exhibition I've been to this year, and I honestly wouldn't have gone without friends suggesting we meet there. LYB is very much my contemporary, and I've tended to avoid solo contemporary shows as there aren't that many artists I want to spend that ( Read more... )

And excitingly, as Friday and Monday are bank holidays, I am about to have one. Hurrah! I've made it to Easter without using leave, which was kind of my goal given that I frittered it all away on long weekends last year. I still feel like I need breaks, but apart from a few weeks in late January/early February this has not been such an intense work ( Read more... )

It’s been a year in lockdown and I think it’s time to do a DITL with photos, just because… well, I hope life won’t always be like this. I was planning to do this for 12 March, but I was feeling really ill then. I’m better enough to find it a cheering distraction now. And this Monday is pretty typical. ( Read more... )

I went to the Royal Academy today, for their Summer-but-not-Summer exhibition.

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Oh man, I am both glad and sorry to have been elsewhere for this strange year, and perhaps especially for this strange and sorry week, where all the progress of the summer has come right unzipped. London is on watch, which means more lockdown coming, and judging by the range of substitutions in my Waitrose deliver today, there’s panic buying ahoy ( Read more... )

It's London Open House weekend, and usually I'd have done a lot of visiting this weekend. But of course nothing is normal, and loads of site visits don't sound like a plan at the moment. But there are some lovely digital resources (https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/), ( Read more... )

I heard that Historic Royal Palaces were really struggling in lockdown, and even the Tower ravens are getting bored. So I thought I might go - I've avoided the Tower because it's so crowded, but I could... oh, wait, it's £27 a visit?

Ahahaha nope.

I went to Kensington Palace though, a snip at £10 less.


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...bah, autumn. I've a cold, and it sucks ( Read more... )

A roundup of the rest of my time in Bath, where I went to two whole new museums. This place just keeps on giving. (I have photos below, though my phone camera is playing up a bit so they are a bit dodgy in places ( Read more... )