Posts tagged “london”

It is the weekend and if I wasn’t dabbing calamine lotion on Wilf’s chicken pox I’d like to be here – Sir John Soane’s Museum. Soane was a forward thinking architect in the 18th Century, his home in London (now the museum) was where he experimented with lighting techniques, architectural details and the place that housed his huge collection of antiquities. It is a magical (and wacky) place, especially in winter when visitors can view the building by candlelight. You get funneled through dark narrow corridors, sandwiched in little cubbyholes and then exposed to glazed lightwells, he’d never get planning permission in the 21st century but that is the joy of the place.

I like the rain, but maybe not carrying shopping bags in the rain, more things like running, cycling, swimming. There is something refreshing about getting soaked to the skin, deliberately going through puddles and it not mattering. We’re lucky to have an outdoor pool in Hitchin and it was blissful swimming this morning, watching the steam rise while the rain drops plopped into the pool.

It reminded me of these photographs taken by our friend Christine Donnier Valentin. Not only is she a brilliant photographer but she is very funny too. I’ll add some more of her images when I get a minute.