Charlie

This weekend belongs to Charlie.  Not only is he 50 years old, he also has a Chocolate Factory which Joanna and her cousins visited today with Lis, Mum, Jesse and Frances.

I enjoyed following my nose of two and a half hours round London.

In the morning Mum, Joanna and I visited Leighton House, House of Lord Frederick Leighton, the Pre Raphilite painter.  John Diamond wrote about one of this paintings in the Independent today.

The Fisherman and the Siren,
Bristol Art Gallery

The Arab Hall - Leighton House Kensington

My Route.
First to Somerset House where I very much enjoyed Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocences', featuring his father, and objects associated with his book of the same name.  This was exhibited as 83 display boxes, though Somerset House only has 14.  They were beautifully constructed, and I enjoyed watch the film of Orhan walking the streets of Istanbul at night.

The first sample of Istanbul

The old city

 The to the zany young contemporary artists of the world in an exhibitions called Venturing Beyond.
"Thinking means venturing beyond." Ernst Bloch, 1959.

Somerset House- A new flag for Britain

St Dunstan in  the Wrst

Now a Romanian Orthodox church

An octagonal interior

A clearer picture.
Said to be pseudo-Arabic

British Museum- Picture for Peter

Spotting buildings

I'm interested in this shape