I've come down with a hideous cold this week. It flared up on Sunday and I should have spent the whole day in bed, except that we were in Bristol so it wasn't really an option. We went to see the Wallace and Gromit exhibition instead:

We also dropped in on a John Cage exhibition on the way - very cool - including some fabulous realisations of Fluxus pieces. Funny how I never understood any of this experimental stuff till I took Shannon's class earlier this year - couldn't tell the difference between what was valid sound art and what was merely a pretentious waste of time. Glad I can now - Alvin Curran's piece for stones was particularly lovely. I wished I could have got hold of a recording, but the boy was keen to move on and I was feeling cruddy, so we bypassed the shop on the way out. Oh well, maybe I'll get back there before the exhibition closes in mid-January.

Anyway, so at home and all tucked up with a box of tissues, a garlic bagel and a teddy bear today (as yesterday) and cheering for the history channel. Daytime TV everywhere is always so dismal, but now we have freeview, so instead of being forced to choose between Judge Judy and staring at the walls, I got to watch 7 episodes in a row of Meet the Ancestors - so much better for the brain. So hip hip hooray for the history channel. I wonder what they've got on today...

# posted by minim @ 11:21 AM