Helen Legg

Most fun it’s possible to have waiting all day for a bus to come along (and yes, three did arrive at once). Thoughts with those on Water St, minutes later.

I raise you the columns outside the Basilica di San Marco

I forgot the pickled onions and am stricken

The coriander’s giving me cover.

Going in

Googled it and am now making tonight

I heard it didn’t do well. Which is heartbreaking.

Agree. I’m a big ol Donatello fan - why aren’t there more of us?

Thought it was a great show, especially the hyper realism of the portrait busts.

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For once, a tweet properly deserving of a heart

Do pack food, drink, maybe a big scarf or blanket and a means of communication. Treat it like the potentially treacherous mountain hike it sort of is.

So many people have lost everything in the LA fire, but I’m also beginning to hear about cultural destruction - Gary Indiana’s archive, artist studios and storage (someone said all of Mike Kelley’s archive is gone), the Andrew McNally mansion …

Oh this is so sad. Lovely, lovely man. He and Mary would always be at openings at Ikon Gallery when I worked there. Pretty sure the opening of Deaf Sentence must have been set there.

Driving along the Welsh/ Shropshire border is quite the adventure. Floods, detours, fallen trees. Vibe is very Alton Towers Log Flume c.1984.

I lived on Gambier Terrace too. Glorious view from the living room window.

Terrified me as a child and still gives me the heebie-jeebies tbh

Great title Michelle. A must read on that basis alone.

The book’s even better - an intense psychological study into the lives of people who have done terrible things in the name of a political ideology and how they cope when that struggle comes to an end.

Same