Time

Another week done, and the weekend is here. Weather is going to be warm and sunny, and I'll get to spend time with the whole family. Looking forward to it.

Ideal

A day off work today, and a trip with Nicky to the Ideal Home Show. As is normal for these kinds of events, we come home having mostly purchased food (sausages, dips, fudge!) and got lots and lots of great ideas of things to do by way of home improvements.

Some of the things, not necessarily in order, that are on the list:

• front door;
• oven;
• lamp for hall;
• mirrors;
• chest of drawers for hall;
• dining table and chairs;
• kitchen work-tops;
• hot water tap;
• bar stools for kitchen;
• armchairs;
• built in wardrobes;
• wallpaper;
• en suite bathroom.

Watch this space - let's see what we actually manage to do!

WEX

... is apparently short for Work Experience, and that is what Jake has to look forward to later this year. He and I went to a brief presentation at school this evening about it, and essentially the choice is to either organise something independently between now and July, or failing that to make a selection from their list.

Work experience takes place in the week of 20-24 October, and they have a two week half term after it to recover!

Rambles

Posting from Sutton Scotney this evening, and I'm not the only one who has been blogging this evening. We have a new blog set up for Mum, and it can be found at:

oldschoolhouserambles.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

And again

Following straight on from yesterday's post, the first work task of the week today was to attend a client meeting in London. The client I was visiting has their offices on Buckingham Gate, which as the name suggests, is just around the corner from Buckingham Palace.

Despite nearly missing my train - terrible traffic trying to get to the M2, but then the Gods were smiling on me when I arrived at the station 5 minutes after the train had been due to depart to discover that it was running 8 minutes late - I arrived in London in plenty of time, and so took the tube to Green Park, and then walked through the park and past the Palace to my meeting.

Once my meeting had finished, as it was turning out to be a beautifully bright day in the Spring sunshine, I took a little walk through St James's Park before getting back on the tube at Charing Cross.

Here are a few of the photos from today, and I have to say, for a few quick iPhone snaps, I think they've turned out rather nicely!

London Walk

On Wednesday, after my meeting in Wimbledon, I got the train back in towards the middle of London, and arrived at Vauxhall station with some spare time before I was due for a work dinner, and so decided to go for a walk.

I walked over Vauxhall Bridge, and along Millbank to the Tate Gallery, and stopped in to have a look around.


As well as having some beautiful works of art to admire, the gallery itself is a really great place to wander around and enjoy.


Some of my favourite pieces in the gallery were the sculptures. The next three photos are Der Trommler by Michael Sandle, Working Model for Three Piece No. 3 by Henry Moore, and Forms in Echelon by Barbara Hepworth.


After enjoying my time at the Tate, I carried on walking (ending up walking all of the way to the restaurant we were meeting at which was close to Ludgate Circus), passing Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall and Trafalgar Square.

Missing

Bit of an unexpected late night last night, hence the lack of blog!

"Normal" service to be resumed later ...