London 14th November 2011

Went to town and saw four exbish:-

1/ Leonardo da Vinci National Gallery

Billed as the 'once in a lifetime exhibition' and in some ways I hope so as the queues were daft. Luckily having advance tickets meant we only queued the once. First time the two 'Virgin of the Rocks' have been shown together, for me the stand out thing that I learnt was that his rough draft sketches took only minutes.

Stand out image was The Burlington House Cartoon

2/ Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 National Portrait Gallery

Loved the Kiera Knightley

3/ The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons National Portrait Gallery

A nice exhibition all pretty Gainsborough type stuff :-)

4/ World Press Photo 2011 South Bank

Brilliant photography but mostly illustrating all too well man's inhumanity to man

Day Out

Had lovely day out with the husband today :-) went to the V&A and had a lovely day.

Bought a pair of peacock earrings as a 21st wedding anniversary present and Tony had a limited edition fashion photography book.

Seems a long time since we spent some quality time together so many weekends recently seem to have been filled with check ligament issues. Was nice to not have to go back to yard but let lovely YO do him today.

Had a M&S picnic lunch in Kensington Gardens before we walked across the park to the V&A bliss :-)

London 19th March 2011

• Went to town today and saw after a rather nice lunch in Bistro 1 and too large a glass of wine - felt so sleepy
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• Michael Landy: Art World Portraits NPG 19th March 2011 - didn't enjoy
• Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street NPG 19th March 2011 - good
• Ida Kar NPG 19th March 2011 - good
• Jan Gossaert's Renaissance National Gallery 19th March 2011 - brilliant