A few snaps...

Yesterday Nicola and I went to see the Vanity Fair exhibition on at the National Portrait Gallery - which was great. I quite often buy the mag so it was interesting to see some of the photos 'in the flesh' as it were.

After that we lunched then wandered around many shops - and Nicola showed me some really rather cool streets off the beaten track which I'd never found before. But it was rainy and cold and busy so our enthusiasm for shopping diminished as the day went on...

Henry Moore at Kew Gardens

Last Monday Julia and I went to Kew to see the Henry Moore sculptures which have been on display at Kew since September but which finished yesterday.

It was a freezing day, and in between the snow and sleet showers we wandered around and looked at the sculptures which I thought were fantastic. I did wish I had managed to go on a sunny day as I think they would have looked even better in brilliant sunshine.

But they still took my breath away - a couple of snaps here, and more in my Flickr account...

Large Upright Internal/External Form

Large Upright Internal/External Form
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.

One of my absolute faves.

Double Oval

Double Oval
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.

These were also very cool - hard to get a photo of them without someone's body parts in it though :-(

Glory of Snow

Glory of Snow
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.

Fantastic alpine flowers which made the grass look blue (as you can see!).

From South to North to South again...

via many transport means...

Shanks' pony
Train to Vauxhall, tube to Highbury & Islington, train from H&I to Homerton to collect a very swollen faced Maya from the hospital, back on the train to H&I, then tube to Vauxhall, then train to Wimbledon, then taxi to Maya's flat, then bus back to Wimbledon to get the train back to Surbs. Leaving poor old Maya to crawl into bed and feel very sorry for herself...

Oh - and its about 4 deg outside and I managed to be caught outside in two hail storms and one snow shower...

Gotta love this country - we have a really mild winter with no snow, when it gets to Easter and a 4 day weekend the temperature plummets and now we might get snow!

Birthdays!

Its been a week dominated by birthdays - Wednesday I was out to help Jackie celebrate her birthday at Lowlander. I'd never been before but it was a great wee cafe - definitely one I'll be going back to. We all had a lovely evening and I had a lovely bowl of Moules with Frites. Very nice!

Thursday it was off out to Rasa to help Julia celebrate her birthday. Another lovely evening - although I felt a bit sorry for the table sat behind ours... And the meal was absolutely delicious as well!

And still 3 days left of Easter - I love long weekends!

Firsts...

So in the last month I went to a podiatrist for the first time - where I learnt that I walk funny, and should be using innersoles... I'd been having 'toe issues' so thought I should get them checked out.

And today, after doing something horrendous to my neck on Saturday morning I paid my first visit to an Osteopath! Who did lots of moving my head and neck around, and it does seem to be a bit better. I think it was getting there anyhow, but it was nice to have it checked out - and I could really feel the bit that was unhappy when he zeroed in on it!

Oh - and he did acupuncture on it as well so that was another first as well!