Hysterectomies & Turnip Mash

20/9/12 Part Two

On the way home now in the quiet carriage. Not sure why they call it quiet though.

There’s a girl opposite whinging down her phone to her friends about her meeting in London with some failed love interest who doesn’t treat her right.

And behind me are a bunch of women having a good old gossip and natter all about ‘My friend Mary’, Oven cooked sausages, Hysterectomies and Turnip mash.

I've had a perfect day. 

I am now well on the way to becoming a whizz on the London underground and I'm already hopping on and off tubes as confidently as a one-legged tight rope walker.  Actually I’m so good that I hopped off and then back onto the same tube at one point when I became temporarily convinced that it was going the wrong way.

I spent the early afternoon at the Victoria & Albert museum.  I last visited it two years ago and it was inspiring to meander around again with a fresh eye and with Applied Arts at the forefront of my mind. I adore that place, it’s so vast that you could visit for a week and still not see everything. I do need to make a point of going more often now that I’ve realised I’m capable of independent travel.

I was booked in to see the Heatherwick Exibish at 2pm and all I can say is WOW. That guy is a dude. A Genius Dude.

I think I’ll follow up with a blog entry about him and the exhibition at a later date J

Later I took a tube over to Blackfriars and went to mooch about in the Tate Modern again. The first time I visited a couple of years ago I didn’t really enjoy it so I had decided to give it another go. I really should learn to trust my instincts as I didn’t really enjoy it much this time either!  It’s nice to have further confirmation to reassure me that my choice of avoiding a Fine Art degree was the right one for me.

I also found time to wander around a few London landmarks before meeting a wonderfully lovely friend for dinner at the end of my day. Amazingly the weather was warm and pleasant which was a shocker and meant I was lugging my coat around all day. I also found that the two pair of socks got a bit much at times.

To sum up: Two Trains, Five Tubes, A Museum, A Gallery, A Formerly Wobbly  Bridge, A Restaurant, Two Pubs and A Posh London law firm. Not a bad visiting count for a single day in Londinium….

A pretty successful trip all in all!!