Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings
Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartets
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Sparks - The Seduction of Ingmar Bergmann
Mozart - Piano Concerto No 21
The Velvet Underground - 1969
Another good breakfast and another early morning tube ride...
...this time, to the East End...
...to Brick Lane Market...
We walked the entire length in the rain, before taking a break for coffee...
..and then heading back...
Rough Trade East opened at 11...
Overall, pricey but another good music browsing experience...
An exclusive 3CD version of John Grant's "Pale Green Ghosts", Rough Trade's 2013 record of the year, was picked up for a tenner...
More investigating the various ex-industrial buildings which have been taken over by stalls...
Tasty Lithuanian and Ethiopian street food for lunch...
...before making our way back towards the tube...
We popped in next door to the Whitechapel Gallery, which had this from Documenta (13) exhibitor, Kader Attia...
Some unfathomable "wallpaper"...
...and some unfathomable film...
Back to Russell Square...
...and round to the British Museum, to dodge the incessant rain...
Packed of course, with both people and things to see...
We concentrated on the European rooms and Britain in the time of the Romans and before...
Here, Anne with the accidental head of Hadrian...
Meg made an appearance too...
...as did a couple of unknown Romans - who, of course, had no idea when sitting for their sculptors, that their heads would end up being gawped at by tourists 2,000 years later....
The Lewis Chessmen were popular...
Finally, out and down through Soho Square, with its statue of St Paul...
...and Leicester Square, with its statue of Shakespeare...
...and Trafalger Square, with its statue of, erm, a giant blue chicken...
Into the National Gallery, a quick coffee, then a look around...
This, the result of an overzealous guard, objecting to my capturing the light in the room, whilst in no way adding to it...
One of Anne's faves...
...and one of mine...
I do like the old stuff in the Sainsbury Wing...
Out around six, into the darkness...
...and back to the Tube and to Brick Lane, where every Indian restaurant seemed to have a guy outside trying to entice us in with offers of free drinks and discounts from our food bill...
In the end, we chose this one - and they were true to their word - free drinks and 25% off the food bill...
...and the food was superb...
Back along the lane, past the mosque...
...to the Tube...
...and back to Bloomsbury...
...for a night cap...
...after another busy day...
Home, to bed...
Lights out...
Highlight of the day : Brick Lane, twice...
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