Idle amusements

[fuchsoid]

I've found that if I work relatively hard at the beginning of the week, I can get a whole week's worth of work done by Thursday and take Friday off, so today I took yet another person (Lauren from my old London Met class) to the Wellcome Institute. The new temporary exhibition, on Sleep and Dreaming, opens on November 29, so I'll probably be headed there again pretty soon. I didn't to take any pictures this time, except at lunch, when I had a bowl of extremely tasty mushroom soup without bread and treated myself to one of their home-made fig rolls. These are very tasty indeed (if you like figs), with very much more fig than roll, but I found that after the soup I couldn't finish the whole thing at once and had to take half of it home, so my stomach must have shrunk. Other benefits of the diet are beginning to appear. I can now get into the indigo hemp trousers I bought in the summer, and do up the new shirt all the way down. Over the weekend, I must have a good look through the back of the wardrobe and see what I have there that I can look forward to fitting into. Apparently 80s styles are back in fashion, so I'm probably onto a good thing.

Here's a picture of the fig roll and just to prove that I'm not a complete philistine solely obsessed by food, a detail from the miniature mountain in the Chinese export gallery at the V&A, that I saw last week.