As part of my busy-week programme, I finally managed to get to the quilt show at the V&A yesterday. This was amazingly good, and I fully intend to go again before it closes. Some very minor cavils first - it was very busy, crammed solid with frighteningly knowledgeable women, and rather dimly lit, which is quite understandable, but more ( Read more... )

After a weekend of sudden and rather unseasonal heat*, that left me as lively and energetic as one of those floppy plastic toys you throw against a window to see them flip down the surface, the temperature fell sharply last night, leaving the weather today pretty much perfect. So, on the pretext of searching out locations for number two g-d's ( Read more... )

Off again today, into a much greyer, cooler day, with a suggestion of rain that was later confirmed. Piccadilly was closed, and there was a thin crowd on both sides of the street, clearly waiting for something to arrive from either direction. After a bit, I wandered down the closed and practically deserted streets to Pall Mall, still without any ( Read more... )

WARNING - lots of pictures in this one, behind the cuts ( Read more... )