Sunday 17th of June, 2007
permeated my fibre
8:30 - Get up.
Go out for a run. It's a very good time to do it for the time of year: it's sunny but there's still a bit of a chill. By the time I get to Westminster there's a large quantity of people on the bridge, making it difficult, so perhaps earlier still.
Get home, shower. H makes scrambled eggs and mushrooms, which we have with salami. I also introduce her to the concept that cheese and grapes go well together. Which they do.
Website bits and pieces, both developmental and remedial, and a bit in between.
I remain stuck there, actually, until 15:45, when I go off to Sue M's open studio.
I catch a 76 bus from Waterloo. It stops on the far side of Waterloo Bridge, because (as far as I can tell), the driver doesn't want to drive any more. So we sit there for a long time. Then he drives away. The route's quite indirect. On reaching the Kingsland Road, he decides he can't be bothered again, and wanders away from the bus. I elect to walk from there.
It takes a while to find the studio (it seems I walk around it), and finally locate it because of signs tied to lampposts, that I might have been walking past for a while.
It's very nice - Sue's ill, but the person whose studio she shares calls her up and we chat. There's cool clothes, prints and other stuff. I ask some fairly dim questions - it would be much easier to say "tell me about all this". Perhaps I'll try that next time. I take some photos, especially of the clothes, so that Haru can see them. Then I go round the other studios, and (after asking) take photos in those. Some cool stuff. Most people ask me what I'm going to do with the photos. They also have signs telling people not to touch the ceramics.
I go into one studio, where one ceramicist (a Japanese woman) encourages people to touch the ceramics, and the other (an Eastern European woman) not only encourages me to take photographs, but asks me to send them to her.
After that studio I don't have the energy to ask whether I can take photographs - it does actually deplete energy. Odd.
I buy a sports drink (why? because it's blue and I quite like the taste of blue) and then take the 76 bus back again. H calls to say that a strange band we found on the internet (Circulus - stuck somewhere between the 1530s and 1972) are playing on a stage in front of the RFH.
I get off at Waterloo Bridge, then find H. We watch for a couple of songs and go to pick up the tickets for tonight, and then have some sandwiches in the Queen Elizabeth Hall cafe.
I take pictures of the fountain outside the QEH.
We go in and take our seats.
Tonight's show is by the KPM Allstars - essentially library music from the 1960s and 1970s, with Everlasting Love sung by Madeleine Bell at the end. Many of these themes were used for TV programmes. I explain to H that I used to turn the television on when I was very small, and watch the Test Card, which had tapes of this music played over it. Between one thing and another, if any music could be said to have permeated my fibre from an early age, it's this.
Anyway, I love it. I buy CDs of KPM library music that are on sale, and we stay for the question and answer session.
Back home, tea and biscuits. Bed late.
I quite liked being the person I was today.
