Eider Duck Fright

I’ll stick with the scary theme. I’ve been admiring the Halloween decorations people have put up in their gardens, windows and around their front doors. To be frank, though, there’s nothing really scary about shop bought gigantic spiders tangled in tonnes of fake cobwebs. Here’s something I saw in the McManus Art Gallery & Museum

Mysterious

Fifty two years. That’s a long, long time. And you would think it’s a rather adequate amount that should have lead to superior knowledge, understanding. Wisdom, even. In an ideal case scenario, I should sit on my living room floor in perfect lotus position, Mona Lisa smirk on my face, a picture of pure serenity.

‘Fire! Fire!’

This is a picture I saw in the Tate Modern, in London, a couple of weeks ago. I used it last night as a prompt for my writing group, The Procrastinators. I know of course, that the title of this work of art by Enrico Baj is ‘Fire! Fire!’, but when I first encountered it,

Obliteration!

So, highlights of our weeklong trip to London: many. More to come. Yesterday morning, though, a gem. Unexpected, and therefore even better. A source of tremendous joy when I really needed to see something positive. I went to Tate Modern again, I didn’t get round to all the exhibition rooms during our visit a couple

8th August 2021 Museum bums and other bits

My son knows the drill. No visit to London is complete without his mother’s sentimental pilgrimage to the British Museum. It’s always the same. I walk straight to the room with the Rosetta stone and then I drool over this linguistic marvel, the key to understanding the hieroglyphs, for an unspecified period of time. I