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We had a weekend of CULTURE round my way this weekend just gone. Not satisfied with our trip to an ACTUAL THEATRE (all right, to see a gig, but still) on Thursday, the Acts In My Cabaret and I popped round to The British Museum on Friday night. Well, it's rude not to - it's less than 120 seconds from my office AND The Minutes In My Hour is a MEMBER of that fine institution. Yes, that's right, a MEMBER of The British Museum - some might say this is evidence of her having some kind of SUPER BOYFRIEND or something, who got her membership for her birthday but i decline to comment hem hem oh i say.

SO anyway, we popped round and had a look at the Afghanistan Exhibition, which was pretty good. It was a lot SHORTER (good!) and a lot less MENTAL than the Egyptian one was (that was MAD), and also gave pause for thought - lots of stuff came from an entire settlement/civilisation that we had comepletely FORGOTTEN ABOUT until evidence was found again in the 1950s. Just imagine that - whole generations of people, all those lives, just dropped off the mental map of human civilisation. I had a bit of an old PONDER about THAT one i can tell you!

We also went to see the Eric Gill exhibition, which was TINY but GRATE. He did all sorts of public art, including sculpture, stamps, and indeed the font GILL SANS which i use all the time. My favourite thing was how EVERY time anyone asked him to do a Major Piece Of Public Art he would CUNNINGLY SUBVERT IT... although not THAT cunningly because pretty much every time he did it The Establishment NOTICED and said "Er... that wasn't really what we were after Eric, thanks" and got someone else in instead. If you look at the self-portrait on his medallion on the exhibition's page you can imagine him being just the SORT to think this was a clever idea, and I could just imagine him SNIGGERING away and then kicking a waste paper basket when THE KING noticed he'd put him on Oliver Cromwell's horse. It was ACE!

Then we went to an RESTAURANT in the Glittering West End - i know! It is like people on TELLY or somethinG!

Next day I was a bit poorly, and only managed a LIGHT DINNER PARTY (i.e. some Nephews/Nieces various came round and we had CRISPS. That is how we BOHEMIANS roll at Dinner PArties these days) but on Sunday it was back to the artistic GRINDSTONE as I properly started work on the VIDEO for I'm Saying Yes. There'll be more on this later on in the week, when I hope to get it all done by (there is, after all, a pretty big DEADLINE for this one!), but the current report is that it's going rather well. There is a LOT of stuff in it, and a LOT still to do, but the most COMPLEX bit, where the AV system is EXPLAINED using FOUR HIBBETTS is all sorted out, so it should be pretty plain sailing from henceforth. I've got a good feeling about this one - prepare to MAN THE BARRICADES in a few days time!

posted 18/4/2011 by MJ Hibbett

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