What makes a week busy? Going out, doing things ... deadlines ... demands ... confusion ... wanting to do too much ... having too many nice things to choose from!
I had several visits with the delightful grandbaby, who in addition to being able to grab and hold things
(fingers can be fun, and teething rings are especially useful) has also discovered her toes and is starting to suspect they really are part of her own body.
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| Irene Weingartner and Andrea Schoenborn |
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| Nelleke Beltjens |
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| Anna Mossman |
A cinema evening - biopic about
Pavarotti ("syrupy tribute to the legendary tenor" said the Guardian).
Sunday - farmer's market,
picnic, and eventually some woodblock printing -
Monday - visit with grandbaby, and making a birthday dinner and cake for her daddy -
Tuesday - drawing at Docklands Museum
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| why did I choose this I wonder... |
and then to Camberwell to see the final bookarts MA show - the course is closing....
and the printmaking MA show
after which, a babysitting gig in London N8 so the parents can do some birthday cavorting at the pub ...
and on my walk home, the partially eclipsed moon rising over London N4
Wednesday, Veronica came to do some woodblock printing, after which I went to the Wellcome for a lunchtime talk on research on ageing -
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| (Got there early) |
and then to the very interesting
Writing exhibition at the British Library (till 27 Aug), followed by a walk partway home, along streets new to me.
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| Old building contrasts with des-res on Hemingford Road, N1 |
Thursday was not only rainy ("good for the gardens") but completely "should-free" - gosh, what to do with the empty hours?? This'n'that, including sitting at the table by the window, watching a magpie mother instruct her (large) offspring in how to find food -
The rain stopped so I went out, to the V&A and the Dior exhibition
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| "Mexican dress" 1953, my favourite |
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| I also loved the quarter-size models - red dress |
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| ... red coat |
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| And this black-and-grey one... |
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| ...appeared fullsize later |
Across the road to Luke Jerram's "Museum of the Moon" at the Natural History Museum - late in the afternoon is a good time to go there -
On the way home, a short stroll along the Parkland Walk -
Friday - rainy, a spur to sifting through some papers - loved this photo -
It might end up as a woodblock print one day....
Heading over the hill in the afternoon -
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| (OK it's topiary, but, er, what is it?) |
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| ... for a quick and delicious |
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| ,,, dinner |
Then, at home again, watching yet another moonlanding-anniversary programme on catch-up BBC -
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| screenshot |
Next week will be different.
The rain stopped so I went out, to the V&A and the Dior exhibition
On the way home, a short stroll along the Parkland Walk -
It might end up as a woodblock print one day....
Heading over the hill in the afternoon -
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