In town

In these last days of Indian Summer you have to take every opportunity to get out - so we stopped in Highgate, parking near these 18th century houses (now a posh girls' school) -
and across the road is Lauderdale House, said to have been the home of Nell Gwynn, one of the first English actresses and the mistress of King Charles II. Now it has exhibitions, concerts, and a thriving cafe out back -
Beyond the house, Waterlow Park goes downhill to ponds
Keep walking and you'll find Highgate Cemetery, where Karl Marx and many of the great and good, and the interesting, lie buried.

Another thing we did this weekend was to see the Twilight exhibition of modern photography at the V&A. Each of the 8 photographers had a separate "room", lit atmospherically, and the corridor had draperies and purplish lighting to evoke the mood of twilight. Tony pointed out the subtle shadows cast onto the draperies by the picture frames --

My favourites - the panoramic forests by Chrystel Lebas, evoking scary fairy tales.