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Date: 17 August 2010 16:55:45
The Smudgelet is away and today I have been grown up.
Well, sort of grown up.
Well, as grown up as I can be when spending time with a particular friend and her husband (though some of our conversation was very grown up as they are going through some tough times too), as we're not known for taking even some of the most serious things in life as deadly serious.
So today I had my first ever visit to Tate Britain.
I have to admit that the first two hours were spent in the cafe.
But the rest of the time was spent in the gallery itself. WOW! Art galleries are not my first choice of places to visit, though they are on the list of places I'd happily spend time if given the opportunity. Museums come higher, though. But to do an art gallery in adult company, totally at leisure, with someone whose interest mirrors my own (i.e. equally happy to discuss the paintings or to discuss other things prompted by the paintings) and whose knowledge is slightly greater than mine but not oppressively so, and whose thought patterns and preferences in art are close enough to my own to make discussion fun but not so identical as to take out all reason to discuss, now that was a really lovely experience.
Funny how looking closely at paintings can tell you a lot about yourself.
Little wonder I now need a snooze with my feet up.