Went to our usual holiday cottage in Ambleside with most of the Usual Suspects. (self,
Last Saturday we had
Tuesday saw me braving the far-off scary land known as North-Of-The-River to attend a reading by Michael Marshall (Smith) and to get some more of the book mountain signed. I stopped at Lakeside to get some food on the way -- it really does seem to live down to its reputation -- and then had to brave the wilds of a new-build area to try to find the library where the event was being held. These towns where everything has been built at about the same time (Chafford Hundred) are a nightmare for navigation, because you don't have the same visual cues as in most towns which suggest whether you're going into the centre of town or away from it. It's also not helpful when Multimap's directions seem to consist entirely of telling you which exit to take off roundabouts, and they all turn out to be mini-roundabouts with no other signage... oh well, got there in the end, I wasn't late, and the event was fun.
Poker on Friday, as noted, and DocPotempkin and I wandered into town yesterday to go to the Dan Flavin retrospective at the Hayward Gallery. Some of the effects with colour and light were quite interesting, but I'm afraid I'm enough of a philistine to have real difficulty appreciating the symbolism of, say, this piece. (Go on,