We set off on a cool but dry June morning and soon we are on a train to Paddington that can't quite keep to time. The first stop is the Royal Academy Schools Show 2017
This year it is particularly fun with lots to see, entertain and intrigue.
From the brilliant and scary Richie Moment to Zsofi Margit's Cabinet there is much great talent.
Next is lunch with the lovely Art Historian who is bouncy and happy, just what we want.
Next stop is Bedford Square Festival
We have tickets for In Pevsner's Footsteps: 'A perambulation of Bedford Square' led by
Charles O’Brien from the Yale Univesity Press. It's an architectural tour of Bedford Square, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner rightly described as ‘without any doubt the most handsome of the London squares’. The tour examines the history of the square’s development, its occupants over three centuries, and visits the interiors of several houses, concluding with No. 47 - a famous publishing address, now occupied by Yale University Press - where there are nice cakes and cold drinks and merchandise! Interesting to learn
that aristocracy in the form of Lord Bedford was behind the initial build and the risk was taken by the architects. Also the square was meant to be a crescent as we see in Bath but the curve only persists in the corners of the square.
Next we walk in the sunshine to the Square Pig at Holborn where we are entertained by the Hopstuff brewery . After a cup of tea, I am soon drinking delicious Freudian Strip amid great company.
Next it's a quick bus then train from Waterloo to Egham where we enjoy great ales and the company of chums at S's 50th bash. What a delight is the multi award winning Egham United Services Club
Home really late via Reading Station. I manage the hill on Phyllis and it's a hot bath and the Archers at midnight. What a day! We loved it.
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