Here I am...

[fingertrouble]

Sitting outside the Cafè Rouge in Hampstead, after a nice walk on Hampstead Heath (no not for that, get your mind out the gutter).

Been a beautiful day, quite quiet as I assume on the best day of the year the suckers were inside watching some idiots kick a ball. So maybe there might be some benefits after all :-)

I have to work tomorrow though which has taken the relax factor out of my weekend, hence treating myself tonight.

Saw the RA summer show last night with John, pretty good especially the work by David Mach, an artist who inspired me to study art when I was 8-9. He's still got it, and is co-curating the show.

Was the usual rag-bag, but allowing non-Academicians to be exhibited and getting artist to curate has paid dividends over the crammed fusty shows of old.

The Eduardo Paolozzi prints in particular are amazing...If I had the money and the wallspace etc. etc.

Comments

[tim-e-bear.livejournal.com]

So I'm guessing Hampstead Heath is a place for (flips through British expression book) cottaging? ;)

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

flips through American > English dictionary

nope, it's cruising. Cottaging only happens in toilets...if you saw the old-style toilets in London (now endangered species) you'd realise why

Tim

[tim-e-bear.livejournal.com]

Oh - I didn't know if Hampstead Heath was like a park or something, which may have had a toilet outbuilding

I know what a heath should be, but, well, let's put it this way - there's a mall in my town which calls itself a mews, which, I mean, it is not a 'residential street' (not residential - not a street - not even outdoors). And then there was the Twin Oaks apartment near where I lived in Spryfield, Nova Scotia - no oaks nearby and, according to a seventyish woman who lived there, never had been in the lifetime she had spent in the neighbourhood.

Canadian-English dictionary, by the way. :)

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

Canada, US, same thing from when I was there last year

Just one of them is hung up about it LOL

Maple leaves, Stars and stripes. It's all dodgy patriotism to me...

[tim-e-bear.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, eh?

As I said to someone a while back: 'I don't consider myself to be the citizen of any country.' Having stated that, it's not as though I would SAY that upon trying to enter either place at its thug gates, er, borders. I would give the 'expected' answer, because I pick my battles.