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Some stuff to cheer me up!

Becauase I was going on holiday I started this blog on a May day when the weather was so miserable, wet and cold that I started browsing through my image library for some cheery pics. This also meant I didn’t have to go out!

This blog is the result – it’s a bit random but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

My balcony is perfectly situated to watch flypasts on their way to Buckingham Palace. This is the Coronation one …

What do you do with an abandoned car park …

Obviously you turn it into an artwork …

More cheerful street art …

Hot Mexican street food ..

More Pimlico Plumbers licence plate wit …

Posh spare loo roll storage at Mosimann’s …

Nice table adornments too …

Crazy crocheting on a post box in Great Ormond Street …

This is my animal selection.

Faithful doggy in Highgate Cemetery …

Whitecross Street toucan …

Friendly Mudchute Farm goats …

The last animal, the Tower Bridge cat …

My pal Mat …

And, for the first time in my blog history, a food section.

My Hotel Chocolat Easter Egg …

Patisserie perfection at Bob Bob Gerard …

Bombe at the Ivy ..

Add hot chocolate …

And finally, even more calories at Bouchon Racine …

Paradise …

Yep, I quite like chocolate.

Normal blog service will be resumed next week.

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St Bartholomew’s Hospital is celebrating its 900th anniversary.

To mark the occasion there’s a free outdoor exhibition in the City to showcase historic collections and tell new stories about the hospital’s history. It features art, photographs and historical documents from the Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and I visited the exhibition at Guildhall Yard where it will remain until 6 June.

Here are some of the images I took last Saturday.

Artists played a part in recording visual evidence of disease …

Not an exotic flower but a twisted intestine painted in the 1830s …

The famous Hogarth staircase …

The notorious Bartholomew Fair …

Nearby slums in the 1920s. Women were looked after by the Barts External Midwifery Service …

Multi-purpose head!

From the extensive archive …

Some examples …

A happy patient getting some fresh air …

The terrible plague of 1664/5 …

What people were dying from …

‘The Rules’ …

If you want to know even more about Barts and its history I highly recommend a visit to the hospital museum where, as well as fascinating exhibits, you can see Henry VIII’s signature and the Hogarth staircase. You can read more about it in my Little Museum blog.

After viewing the Guildhall Yard display, you can stroll along to the Guildhall Art Gallery …

Here you will find Pomp and Circumstance Adversus, a painting by Dan Llywelyn Hall (b.1980) depicting the recent Coronation …

In more detail …

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Gilbert & George – Special Edition.

Hooray! Gilbert & George (‘Two people, one artist’) have opened the Gilbert & George Centre just off Brick Lane and I visited last Friday. ‘The vision was for people to see our work [and] have access to our pictures,’ they say. ‘So if someone arrives in London and loves our art, they’ll be somewhere they can see our pictures and won’t have to wait for our next gallery or museum show’ …

The space, a former brewery complex, has been designed by SIRS Architects in collaboration with the artists. Visitors enter via regal gates sinuously outlining the artists’ initials into a secluded cobbled courtyard evocative of Gilbert & George’s restored Georgian home and studio …

The gate is adorned by King Charles III’s gold-encrusted royal cypher, a testament to their affection for the monarchy …

Inside the courtyard, past the reception area, a beautiful Himalayan magnolia tree leads the way to the exhibition space’s entrance …

The centre is spread over galleries providing 280 sq m of exhibition space, alongside an outdoor video space.

This first show in the venue is called ‘The Paradisical Pictures’ displays Gilbert and George’s interpretations of Heaven …

It features vast photographic screens of leaves and organic products, including figs, roses, dates and leafy greens through which the artists peer or can be seen lolling on benches, either resting or in a swoon.

Here are the images I took on my visit. Trigger warning, be aware that, in typical G&G fashion, some of the titles are provocative!

There is, of course, merchandise you can purchase to commemorate your visit …

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