Leaving London tomorrow

The adventure is coming to an end. The time has flown by but it is time to leave and pick up on my usual life at home in Dunedin. Sounds like it is going to be a rude awakening from the news reports about snow and flooding.
It has not be very sunny here in London, grey cloud cover every day with some rain most days but muggy.
It has been a brief stay in London this time.
I met up with Wendy and Rod after we came back from Scotland and we went to the Georgia O' Keefe exhibition at Tate Modern together. We were very imoressed at this exhibition and the scope of her work.She lived until 98 so she had plenty of opportunities to explore different themes that excited her.For me it was  her extroadinary use of colour that makes her work so dramatic and so well drawn. She believed that something of beauty should fill a space created by a line. That resonated with me.

Later we went up to the top of the new addition to the Tate and enjoyed the views over London - free here so we made the most of it.The brick work cladding on the extension is eye catching too and sure to start a new trend in building design.

We had a great afternoon and it was so nice to see them both and best news is all is going well now for Rod since his incident at New Year.You can see from the photos they are in good form.

Rod took the photo of St Paul's steeple being attached,detached by a crane. He has an eye for such shots.

We enjoyed a lovely lunch at a pub on the South Bank just near the Tate and caught up on all the family news before they caught the train home to Hitchen and I explored around St Pauls before catching the bus home and cooking tea.

I had lunch with Brad, Sue and Clare Church at St Martins another day which was great.Clare and I just bumped into each other in the cafe and we both thought we were having one of those encounters people talk about but it turned out Brad had organised it.
I went to see the National Portrait Gallery latest collection of paintings and an embroidery exhibition celebrating Capability Brown's anniversary. Clare is about to come home to Dunedin to live. She is staying with Christopher for a few more days so we will catch up at home.
Yesterday I met up with niece,Jenny and we went to a book event at Foyles to hear some new writers read and discuss their current publications. The theme was around families and what constitutes a family in different cultures and within existing norms. Later we had a meal and walked back home so a very interesting evening.
Lou,Jenny and myself are all dining at Nick and Els's tonight for a family catch up. I am looking forward to that but not the trip home the following day.