Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

I was at a loose end tonight, waiting for the battery on the cordless screwdriver to charge up so I could fix the door Charlie knocked off its hinges when he tripped over - so just a normal Tuesday evening - and passed it by looking through the programmes available ‘on demand’ from the last […]

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I had the opportunity of getting some proper professional photos done by a Labour party photographer up in Westminster and decided to take up the offer and use it as an excuse to do a bit of tourism at the same time.

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There have been seven previous installations in the Tate Modern’s Unilever exhibitions series, of which I have seen four and enjoyed them all to various extents. When I first heard about the new one (Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo) I had a real sense of anti-climax.
The Turbine Hall is a brilliant, magnificent space and I […]

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I am grateful to BBC4 for this providing this line, which is not something I could have expected to hear:
And what is the connection between this urinal and the Protestant reformation?
The answer was not as interesting as the question.

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With all the to-ing and fro-ing to visit poorly relatives recently it made a change to go down to visit all the healthy ones tonight. My mother and sister both belong to a painting club and tonight they were having an exhibition in Southend to which we were invited.
The place was even more packed […]

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After the National Gallery I hopped on a tube to South Kensington and then went along the foot tunnel to the museums. Despite the temptations of the Science and Natural History museums I went into the V&A.
Previously my perception of the V&A was very similar to my sister’s (see an earlier comment). I […]

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I did my tourist thing yesterday, returning to a few old haunts and trying out a new one.
The first port of call was obviously breakfast in Lower Marsh and then popping in to say hello to my ex-boss, but after that I went over the river to see the newly turfed Trafalgar Square.
It is hard […]

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After our meeting on Saturday we headed across to London Bridge. The intention was to visit the London Dungeon, which Jayne has never been to and really wants to see. When we got there we found a queue which went on for ever. One of the assistants estimated that it would take about […]

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Many apologies to the kind soul who left a comment about the programme on TV tonight where Tim Marlowe looks at the Gilbert & George exhibiton at Tate Modern, and which I accidentally deleted…
What happens is that only comments from ‘known’ people go straight on the site. Everything else which survives the various spam filters […]

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How does he do it? Sometimes time just drags and after several hours you look at the clock to see that only minutes have passed, but with Tim Marlow he does a programme about an exhibition and at the end you think it can’t be over yet, thats only 15 minutes and find that […]

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