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On Sunday last weekend, we used up a Groupon thingy which was in danger of expiring, and took ourselves to the London Motor Museum. It's kind of localish, being in Hayes, and a very simple train ride away (and a slightly more complicated walk back along a canal and through some parks and some shopping streets and so on, but that was optional. The walk did feature a wireframe elephant, though.)

( The London Motor Museum )

( Visiting friends and cooking disasters )

( The Levellers @ Cheltenham Town Hall )

Right, I think that's the mad catch-up done :)

On Saturday, I bumped into philipstorry and we scooped snow_leopard off her train for a day of wombling round museums. Our principal purpose was to go to the Man Ray exhibition at the National Potrait Gallery.

( Black and white )

And then we noodled round a bit more of the NPG, and lunched, and fitted in some more light noodling round the British Museum before SnowLeopard had to hop on her train home again. Altogether a very pleasant day. I seem only to go to proper, paying exhibitions when SnowLeopard organises me into it... must demonstrate non-cultural-vacuumness by self-propelling on occasion :)

I've been wandering in London again. Mostly in Greenwich, where I was delighted to discover that the Observatory is free. Maybe it's some kind of reward for people who manage to walk all the way up the hill to get there.

One of the best things about free museums is that you can tackle them piecewise. On Sunday, we poked and prodded at all the interactive sciencey bits in the North half of the Observatory. Then we wandered off; the South half can be another day's trip out some time. Had we paid, we'd have felt obliged to cover the whole museum in one day - and missed out on ( ambling and food. )

We caught a boat up the Thames to Westminster, then wandered back along the South Bank to the Royal Festival Hall where we once again found a ( fantastic art exhibition )