London…
and a touch of Paris
Sept 2012
Week 1 – London
Really?
Meet Alex, Kate & Stu’s
little fella…
Hyde Park…
Ai Wai
Wai’s temporary installation at the Pavillion Serpentine Gallery…
Outside the Dulwich
Picture Gallery. Inside was the Andy
Warhol exhibition…
Catching up at the Duke…
Back at one of our
favourite pubs…
The new Shard…
The London Design
Festival…
The Art of Change
exhibition by Chinese artists…
We were surprised to
discover that this is a real person…
Ping pong anyone?
The faithful Saatchi
Gallery…
The oil room…
More Design Festival…
… and
more ping pong amongst the Design Festival…
Week 2 – Visiting Katy’s family in Chipping Norton and
Madley
Another Alex, Katy’s
growing nephew…
Graeme and Claire’s joint
40th birthdays…
Alex learning the ways of
his Gloucester heritage…
Week 3 – Back in London
The fabulous Kew Gardens…
Overnight in Paris
The Institut
du Monde Arabe
Each of these big and small
circular openings
are motorised apertures that
react to the light…
One of the weirdest
museums is the Museum of the History of Hunting…
This is what happens to
cats after a night on the gin and pills…
These owl feathers
adorned the ceiling of this little room…
Back in London
Meat fruit entrée during
our lunch at Dinner (Heston’s restaurant in London).
That’s right, it isn’t a mandarine!
The “rain” installation
in the Barbican. Wherever you walked, it
stopped raining. Cool hey?
Whitecross Street market…
The new cable car across
the Thames…
Preparing for our walk
over the O2 Centre (aka the Dome)…
Antony Gormley’s new sculpture. If you look closely, the figure of a man
appears…
Inside the Brixton Market
Hall…