Where are you going tonight?

[P.O.S.]

Yes and yes. First and last night in Ljubljana and middle night up Lake Bled to explore there

Looks fantastic can't wait. Shoestring too, hostels and Easyjet so costing £120 total for 3 nights

Been to Ljubljana a couple of times and Lake Bled, really nice place and very nice people too. I watched a Wanderers game in a pub in Slovenia once - that 1-0 over Spurs where Kevin Nolan scored a screamer.

I know itll be too late when you come to read this HRG, but I hope you tried some Burek from one of the street vendors, amazing stuff.

I didn't, no - had lots of Lasko though!

What an amazing place. I shall be going back

How was the weather? I had one visit where it was great and the other not so good. The first time I was there that cable car taking you up to that church at the top of the hill wasnt in use as it was out of season, that was a long long long slog up to the top only to find that the Alps were totally obscured by cloud!

It's an ace little place to stop off at on an inter-rail journey I've found, it was just what I needed after a few days in Hungary and Serbia - fresh, clean and friendly - the opposite of Budapest/Belgrade!

[hisroyalgingerness]

23-24 degrees. Made it really, was just mega. It even politely pissed it down at 5pm Sunday so that we didn't feel guilty about going watching Utd v Chelsea in the bar

[Bruce Rioja]

Not tonight, but just booked tickets for Tori Amos at the Apollo in November.

[tell ben im him]

Work

[William the White]

Tongiht... press night of Secret Thoughts by David Lodge at the Octagon...

For people interested in ideas this is a top play... by the way the design is brilliant and the performances are near-perfect, this is acting so good that it doesn't ever seem like acting...

The play is a familiar story of a seduction by a married man of a woman he fancies but does not love, the resistance by the woman because the man is married AND... NO SPOILERS...

The characters are a scientist (and philosopher of science) - male - and a novelist and teacher of creative writing - female...

The argument is about what is human consciousness - does the scientist or the poet hold the key to understanding our being? The dramatic question is whether they are going to feck or not...

I really liked it... But you have to be interested in the 'ideas' discourse (I am - we have even had a version of it on the art thread that got almost bad tempered)... If you are you will have a ball...

Oh, i should say, this is often very, very funny, and every man who has been unfaithful will be able to recognise a bit of his disgraceful, self-serving persona exposed to utterly deserved mockery... The women in the audience were laughing out loud... [so was I, obviously...]

[clapton is god]

Okaaay, we're there tonight (Saturday) for this one, and I think I am very much looking forward to it.

[thebish]

today (as a birthday day out) - am off to an exhibition with the missus at the V&A - The Cult of Beauty, The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibition ... uty/about/

[thebish]

will be having lunch in here:

[Lofthouse Lower]

Wetherspoons?

[P.O.S.]

OT tonight, via The Knott on Deansgate. Why oh why I'm doing this I dont know

[Lofthouse Lower]

Knott.....might see you in there

[P.O.S.]

Knott.....might see you in there

Youre not putting yourself through this Cup Final Lite as well are you?!

[Lofthouse Lower]

No, but I am putting myself through going for a pint after work

[Bruce Rioja]

No, but I am putting myself through going for a pint after work

Might you not be required to be somewhere fast?

[Gary the Enfield]

today (as a birthday day out) - am off to an exhibition with the missus at the V&A - The Cult of Beauty, The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibition ... uty/about/

Just been handed the blurb for this from a friend who went over the weekend. Have a good time.

[Lofthouse Lower]

No, but I am putting myself through going for a pint after work

Might you not be required to be somewhere fast?

You haven't seen me drive

[thebish]

today (as a birthday day out) - am off to an exhibition with the missus at the V&A - The Cult of Beauty, The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibition ... uty/about/

Just been handed the blurb for this from a friend who went over the weekend. Have a good time.

cheers!

had a nice day out - the exhibition is interesting if not stunning or riveting... their philosophy as that art needn't "mean" anything - it is enough that is it simply beautiful...

tbh - that leaves me a little cold - to me it all looks simply "decorative"

true - some (actually a lot of it) IS beautiful/decorative - but it doesn't "move" me - I think, "that's quite nice" and pass on to the next bauble...

what is interesting is how they all mixed and matched and were involved in such a wide range of stuff - painting (obviously), drawing, caricature, sculpture, fabric, tiles, wallpaper, furniture, teapots, photography, fashion, book illustration...

incidentally - there was a (free) exhibition of David Goldblatt's photography of South Africa through the 70s and beyond - fantastic!



David Goldblatt - Fifteen year old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, De Villiers Street, Johannesburg. 25 October 1985



David Goldblatt, Mother and child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by officials of the Western Cape Development Board. Crossroads, Cape Town. 11 October 1984.



Look at the expressions of these government leaders' he said pointing at another huge picture '…the tight lips, set jaws, hard lines, serious eyes: the determination of a minority government, bent on ‘baasskap’ (white power)



Look at this boy and girl’ he said, showing a young Afrikaner boy with an older black girl, the boy is touching the girl and they are smiling together;Afrikaner farm boys were nurtured in the arms of a black wet-nurse and raised by nannies, then as they grew-up they roamed freely, and a black girl would be told to keep them from harm there was obviously a deep bond created; but at fourteen, the boy had to shun those who had cared for him and become distant and superior.. no wonder so many fantasized about black women and had illegal, clandestine relationships across the colour bar.



photography is much more my scene than the pre-raphaelite aesthetes - but both combined with a posh lunch to make a very pleasant day out...

[Lofthouse Lower]

Happy birthday

For mine I went to a Wacky Warehouse and then home for a quick ham shank

Was lovely

[clapton is god]

The Comedy Store in Manchester for the New Comedy Award 2011. A freebie night out courtesy of the BBC.

[William the White]

today (as a birthday day out) - am off to an exhibition with the missus at the V&A - The Cult of Beauty, The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibition ... uty/about/

Just been handed the blurb for this from a friend who went over the weekend. Have a good time.

cheers!

had a nice day out - the exhibition is interesting if not stunning or riveting... their philosophy as that art needn't "mean" anything - it is enough that is it simply beautiful...

tbh - that leaves me a little cold - to me it all looks simply "decorative"

true - some (actually a lot of it) IS beautiful/decorative - but it doesn't "move" me - I think, "that's quite nice" and pass on to the next bauble...

what is interesting is how they all mixed and matched and were involved in such a wide range of stuff - painting (obviously), drawing, caricature, sculpture, fabric, tiles, wallpaper, furniture, teapots, photography, fashion, book illustration...

incidentally - there was a (free) exhibition of David Goldblatt's photography of South Africa through the 70s and beyond - fantastic!



David Goldblatt - Fifteen year old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, De Villiers Street, Johannesburg. 25 October 1985



David Goldblatt, Mother and child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by officials of the Western Cape Development Board. Crossroads, Cape Town. 11 October 1984.



Look at the expressions of these government leaders' he said pointing at another huge picture '…the tight lips, set jaws, hard lines, serious eyes: the determination of a minority government, bent on ‘baasskap’ (white power)



Look at this boy and girl’ he said, showing a young Afrikaner boy with an older black girl, the boy is touching the girl and they are smiling together;Afrikaner farm boys were nurtured in the arms of a black wet-nurse and raised by nannies, then as they grew-up they roamed freely, and a black girl would be told to keep them from harm there was obviously a deep bond created; but at fourteen, the boy had to shun those who had cared for him and become distant and superior.. no wonder so many fantasized about black women and had illegal, clandestine relationships across the colour bar.



photography is much more my scene than the pre-raphaelite aesthetes - but both combined with a posh lunch to make a very pleasant day out...

That photography exhibition looks fantastic... really good... when you first posted I had a shudder at the thought of the pre-raph mince that might be there... Is it really choc box?