Easter Weekend 19/04-22/04
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satyricaI get taken by surprise by the Easter weekend as I spent so many of them LARPing that I'm not really used to making plans for it, so I was mostly just in London without much in the diary, although N was in a very similar position which worked out well. He'd stayed over Thursday night so we struck out early on Good Friday to the British Museum, which was swarming with people, although luckily not so much in the Munch exhibition that we were headed to: it was pretty interesting although fairly slight for a paid exhibition, we whizzed round in about 45 minutes.
We carried on pottering around London to a couple of smaller exhibitions, some glorious fake Victoriana by a guy called Nick Simpson in a Mayfair gallery, after which we enjoyed the unseasonal heatwave in Hyde Park for a bit then headed (very slowly) East to poke round an exhibition on queer spaces (and their disapperance) at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. I headed home for a while, then back out to Lion Coffee + Records where White Room were playing a tiny gig, the place only held 20ish people and I'd got there early (support act Kipp Boucher soulfully sang candidly-lyriced songs at a keyboard) which made me feel very exposed, for a while it felt like just me and the band. They played a somewhat stripped back set as the space demanded.
I met N up on Green Lanes Saturday morning and we checked out another really pleasing little exhibition at the Atom Gallery, which seemed as though it may have a lot of art I would enjoy; this was a collection by an artist called Villain which re-imagined classic Marvel covers with Polari-influenced superheroes, very niche but very well done. We then had a really nice wander down the New River and all the way to the South Bank where I go the train out into Surrey to meet up with K and the gang. We gathered at L&A's in Woking for a BBQ and all the usual silliness (including K's 12year old showing off his talent for improvised lyrics) and had a lovely time just hanging out.
K dropped me in Guildford the next morning at my Granny's nursing home: she was much more engaged this time than my last couple of visits, which was really nice. After I'd walked down to the station and headed back into London, I met N at the Wellcome Collection where we went round their Psychology of Magic exhibition, which felt a bit constrained by what it could say without giving too much of the game away. Then M & I had planned an Easter roast dinner followed by Game of Thrones, although we settled for re-watching the last season as we can't access the new ones yet.
I did a bunch of domestic pottering on Easter Monday then N & I met up at Hampstead Heath, which I don't make nearly enough of given its proximity, and enjoyed the sun for a bit. We had been trying to get some people together to go for a drink in Stoke Newington but as we made our way over there it didn't look like anyone was around, however both C&S and T rallied at the last minute to join us out in the White Hart's beer garden, then we ended up going back to T's to hang out some more, so it turned into a great success: I'm so bad at spontaneity but I love it when it happens.
We carried on pottering around London to a couple of smaller exhibitions, some glorious fake Victoriana by a guy called Nick Simpson in a Mayfair gallery, after which we enjoyed the unseasonal heatwave in Hyde Park for a bit then headed (very slowly) East to poke round an exhibition on queer spaces (and their disapperance) at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. I headed home for a while, then back out to Lion Coffee + Records where White Room were playing a tiny gig, the place only held 20ish people and I'd got there early (support act Kipp Boucher soulfully sang candidly-lyriced songs at a keyboard) which made me feel very exposed, for a while it felt like just me and the band. They played a somewhat stripped back set as the space demanded.
I met N up on Green Lanes Saturday morning and we checked out another really pleasing little exhibition at the Atom Gallery, which seemed as though it may have a lot of art I would enjoy; this was a collection by an artist called Villain which re-imagined classic Marvel covers with Polari-influenced superheroes, very niche but very well done. We then had a really nice wander down the New River and all the way to the South Bank where I go the train out into Surrey to meet up with K and the gang. We gathered at L&A's in Woking for a BBQ and all the usual silliness (including K's 12year old showing off his talent for improvised lyrics) and had a lovely time just hanging out.
K dropped me in Guildford the next morning at my Granny's nursing home: she was much more engaged this time than my last couple of visits, which was really nice. After I'd walked down to the station and headed back into London, I met N at the Wellcome Collection where we went round their Psychology of Magic exhibition, which felt a bit constrained by what it could say without giving too much of the game away. Then M & I had planned an Easter roast dinner followed by Game of Thrones, although we settled for re-watching the last season as we can't access the new ones yet.
I did a bunch of domestic pottering on Easter Monday then N & I met up at Hampstead Heath, which I don't make nearly enough of given its proximity, and enjoyed the sun for a bit. We had been trying to get some people together to go for a drink in Stoke Newington but as we made our way over there it didn't look like anyone was around, however both C&S and T rallied at the last minute to join us out in the White Hart's beer garden, then we ended up going back to T's to hang out some more, so it turned into a great success: I'm so bad at spontaneity but I love it when it happens.
