This seems to be a current theme of mine at the moment and I'm getting fed up with it! I've done two walks in two weeks and managed to get lost on both of them.
One of them was my own fault - I've started walking The Thames Path, and I was too busy chatting away to Jackie and I neglected to pay attention to where we should have been going. Fortunately (and completely coincidentally) we were in an area that Jackie's friend lives in and so she navigated us back to the Thames ( you would not believe how hard it can be to find the Thames sometimes!).
The second incident was this Saturday, walking one of the Time Out walks. The first time we got lost, I think I should have been more assertive, but the second time was just down to appalling instructions. Interestingly though, it is in the same area as another time I got lost walking with Julia (see that blog post here), so I think I have decided I'm going to give the Chilterns a miss from now on. Nice walking they may be, but I can't be doing with getting lost all the time. Oh - and a correction from that 2008 post - the Chilterns are not north London! AT ALL!
Anyhow - next up is a week in the Lake District so I'm going to try really hard to NOT GET LOST! Watch this space...
Photos from both walks on Flickr as well for anyone who hasn't spotted them on fb...
Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Cracking exhibitions!
So today, in an effort to do more with my Bank Holiday than sit around and try to make a BIG decision, I decided to go into town and go and see something. I ended up going to two that weren't on my list of ones I wanted to see, but I'm so pleased I went - they were both great!
I chose 'Joy in People' as I just loved the name, and the banner image for it. That was also twinned with 'I am Dead' which I'd also noticed the adverts for - hard not to :-).
I thought 'Joy in People' was just great. Jeremy Deller's approach (certainly early on) was to create art that people wouldn't necessarily see as art, or things which wouldn't last. He staged an 'installation' in his bedroom while still living at home - he charged people to go in when his parents were away... There was a great short film where he talked about his work, and different projects he had done, and I could have watched all of the film 'The Battle of Orgreave' - but I was starving and my blood sugar was getting low. Hard to describe this exhibition, but I did come away with an idea of the 'Joy of People'. Loved it.
Fortunately 'I'm Dead' was a lot smaller than JIP. And David Shrigley's work sat very well as a combined ticket with Jeremy Deller's. Very funny, very clever.
They both finish next weekend, and when I left the gallery (about 3pm having got there about midday) the queue for tickets was out the door and around the corner - so I'm pleased I got in early!
I chose 'Joy in People' as I just loved the name, and the banner image for it. That was also twinned with 'I am Dead' which I'd also noticed the adverts for - hard not to :-).
I thought 'Joy in People' was just great. Jeremy Deller's approach (certainly early on) was to create art that people wouldn't necessarily see as art, or things which wouldn't last. He staged an 'installation' in his bedroom while still living at home - he charged people to go in when his parents were away... There was a great short film where he talked about his work, and different projects he had done, and I could have watched all of the film 'The Battle of Orgreave' - but I was starving and my blood sugar was getting low. Hard to describe this exhibition, but I did come away with an idea of the 'Joy of People'. Loved it.
Fortunately 'I'm Dead' was a lot smaller than JIP. And David Shrigley's work sat very well as a combined ticket with Jeremy Deller's. Very funny, very clever.
They both finish next weekend, and when I left the gallery (about 3pm having got there about midday) the queue for tickets was out the door and around the corner - so I'm pleased I got in early!
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