Hello!
Welcome to Wednesday Wishes.
On Monday I mooched around Mayfair. Knocking on doors and gaining entry to private galleries. You can too as part of London Art Week. Tuesday was spent in leafy Hampstead at the Freud Museum checking out an exhibiton to mark his grandson Lucian’s 100th birthday. Later this week the Garden Museum opens an exhibition devoted to one of my favourite childhood books The Secret Garden. Whilst I travelled around I’ve been reading all about Martin Luther.
Bright and early on Monday before I ventured to Mayfair I got to explore Superbloom at the Tower of London. Once again there are poppies in the moat of the Tower but this time they are real and joined with many other blooms. 20 million seeds were scattered in the moat, the Historic Royal Palaces way of celebrating the Platinum Jubilee, now they are plants in full bloom. Superbloom is both an extraordinary sight and an uplifting one. Bees buzz happily all around you, you get view of the Tower and Tower Bridge that you’ve never seen before AND there is an adult sized slide. Be warned the slide looks quite tame at the bottom but scarily steep when you sit on your sack ready to descend.
News of new summer lates keep on popping into my inbox. Both the Painted Hall in Greenwich and Superbloom have announced that they will open late on selected dates this summer. Rumours are swirling that St Paul’s Cathedral will too but as yet no confirmation from the Cathedral itself. Full details of new lates appear on my lates round up as soon as the pop into my inbox.
Finally, July 4 in our household is celebrated as the wedding anniversary of my parents in law. They are no longer with us but join me in thinking of them and reading about the beautiful church where they got married, reputed to be the site of longest continuous Christian worship in London.
Happy Culturing
Catherine