Second Course

Across to the pontoons first thing as there was a very low tide and we wanted to look at the mud. Yep. We saw it. A dredge is definitely needed.
Then up town to see the Grayson Perry retrospective. Which I’ve got to say is rather good, though perhaps a bit too much for one sitting. He could happily have left out that Julie Cope Essex stuff. What comes over however is how cynical and cross he is about so much. He’s been dipped so far into the art world for so long that he can’t believe anything is other than just superficial posturing. 
“The issues: #MeToo, global warming, affordable housing or school shooters seem burnt into the surface but are just another part of the wafer-thin decorative surface of this planet of self-regard.”
More love please, Mr Perry.
Then we went and ate. Oh my word, that afternoon tea at the Signet Library is rather good. Worth every one of its twelve thousand pennies. Like everyone else there I suspect, we’d been given a voucher. I'm sure we were worth it.