Saturday, December 15, 2012

DAY HUNDRED FIFTY NINE - in my room (The Beach Boys, 1963)


Another day of cramming in the last few things I need to get done (otherwise known as sorting) – inside, of course, as I’ve run out of time to do anything outside of my little room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQT-GjKlLw) . . . and besides that, not that I’d want to anyway, on account of it’s WAY cold out there!

Well, actually, there is ONE thing I would make an exception for – to visit again, one last time, and for longer, the Love and Death - Victorian Paintings from the Tate exhibit, at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, if I could somehow squeak out the time. Oh, well, maybe I can see them at the actual Tate in London, later this summer, when they travel back home!

There’s definitely one place I wouldn’t rather be! From the Birmingham News: More than a million shoppers flocked to Birmingham’s Bullring shopping center in the first week of December, figures show, With more than 300,00 visitors in the past weekend alone, making it one of the most visited shopping destinations in the whole of the UK.

[As this very moment, 922am, Greenwich Mean Time, it is 36 degrees Fahrenheit in Provo, 41 in Amsterdam, 43 in Brummie, and 50 in Weymouth. Hhhm, where would YOU rather be?! ]


                             the Bullring - Selfridges side


                             the Beach Boys - surf side