Completely plastered
(Ceiling in the Victoria and Albert Museum: London, UK)
Another exhausting day awaits me – although I’m starting late as I was playing table football until late last night. I think the impromptu nights of fun are some of the finest one can have. It was even more random as in the absence of friends, I am staying in their room and I have therefore temporarily inherited their flatmate. He in turn has produced a visitor who is making the living room his space, providing me with a total of two new flatmates. It was these two miscreants that I accompanied to the local pub for a spot of kicker. Usually I wouldn’t trot to the pub with people I didn’t know at all, but something happens when I travel and I become so much more open to the possibilities of new places, different people and I have a strong and constant fear that I might just miss something. That feeling has dogged me since early childhood and I couldn’t imagine being without it; perhaps that is one reason for my intermittent need to travel.
This photo was taken on Tuesday at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in their hall of plaster casts. I have been here several times before on previous London visits but I never manage to process the scale of these casts – only in the V&A could I pass an early celtic carved door and discover an entire corner (plus barrel vaulted ceiling) of Chichester Cathedral, for instance. The mind boggles at the process of making such a massive plaster cast, let alone the workmanship and magnitude of the originals. You can see from this shot that not only is the collection incredibly varied and eclectic, but also (as I have possibly already mentioned) colossal.
– Today Rosie is in the UK, cooking kippers for breakfast –
