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Flying in Piccadilly
From Bruce McLean to Zedel
13 October 2012
Went this morning to see a new exhibition in Cork Street of recent work by our neighbour, Bruce McLean. Saw a number of people we knew, talked to Bruce and Rosie, and then headed out - because so many people were crowding in.
Headed off to places like HMV, where I wanted to get a copy of Jeff Lynne's new CD, Long Wave - which is wonderful. Also bought a couple of books, one of which I am most of the way through: Catch That Tiger, by Noel Botham and Bruce Montague, the story of Churchill's attempt to capture one of Hitler's astonishingly powerful new Tiger tanks. Style of the book is a bit Boy's Own, but the story is extraordinary. The other book I bought, which has had mixed reviews, is God's Jury, by Callum Murphy, an account of the history of the Inquisition, but a period of our collective history that I have always been fascinated/appalled by, with Murphy seeing some similarities with the War on Terror.
En route, by the intersection of Piccadilly Circus and the Haymarket, something caught me eye above the Four Horses of Helios, which I have always loved. Don't know whose work it is, but the three flying golden figures atop the same building are extraordinarily beautiful. Lunch upstairs at Zedel, then home - stopping in on the nearby Lotus shop for a look at their cycles and cycling machines.
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