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I've had an absolutely wonderful evening. I was invited, through an artist I know in California, to a private party for an exhibition that opened today called Sense and Sensuality (.pdf file) It was staged by a charity called Blind Art, and all the exhibits were designed to be touched, heard, experienced.

My favourite things were two acrylic jelly baby figures, about 4ft tall, one green, one yellow. They were so smooth and sensuous and I couldn't stop touching and hugging them. There was also an amazing chair (shown in the .pdf leaflet) which was made entirely out of tiny stuffed toys. I loved, too, an installation made of hundreds of 2-litre plastic bottles suspended on strings that you could walk into - it felt like sparrows were massaging me as I walked through them. Amazing!

The picture I liked best turned out to be made from tea leaves. It was beautiful.

My friend Hilda and I had a great time, we were entertained and challenged. The only thing we didn't try was this huge big black helmet (again, see the .pdf) because there were too many people waiting to try it.

And London was so fabulous tonight. I took the Underground to St Paul's Cathedral and then walked across the Millennium Bridge. It's been a warm, clear evening, and there is no finer way to look at London than from one of its bridges. I've never been across the Millennium Bridge before, and the view is wonderful, especially to the east where you can see Tower Bridge and, beyond that, Canary Wharf.

It's probably 20 years since I was last round Paternoster Square next to St Paul's, and it used to be a monstrosity of ugly sixties architecture, but it's been redeveloped (I think Prince Charles had some input into the development) and it's now along more classical lines and is a huge improvement.

Sounds excellent - one of the "things I must do before I die" is to wander around London to see all the sights that I have read about in so many books.

Art rocks!

Thanks for a nifty description of a neato evening, ej. (I want to do the 2-liter bottle thing in my house!)

I walked past St Pauls tonight, I hope I never fail to have my heart flutter a little at the view either.

(And the exhibition looks excellent, thanks for pointing it out.)

Sounds awesome. I'll have to pop down there one afternoon.

I am glad you had such a great time. . .London would be bitchen, methinks. . .(if one can use a California term for a British city)