A trip to Margate - which was very off season - to see the Resistance photography show at Turner Contemporary: a terrific archive of British protest movements from the Suffragettes up to the Iraq war, with various gems, like images of women's hunger marches in the 1930s, and Black Panther girls' school bags ...
Here's a bee, trapped in the gift store.
"The loveliest skies in all of Europe" - that's J. M. W. Turner - with the famous/notorious mid C20th brutalist Arlington House flats in the background. They are in a state of somewhat precarious disrepair, a fire hazard, and there's been a huge amount of controversy about whether or not the original line can be spoiled by putting in some new windows. Tracey Emin, who owns one of them, is firmly in the "no" camp ...
If the whole development could be restored to its original pristine glory, I might feel a little differently, but they are currently ... not attractive.
Back in London, a stroll before dinner in St John's Wood Churchyard revealed Cotman's grave - to the left, here - suitably rural.
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