london adventures: what I've been doing

Visiting the ICA for bookshop browsing and the Poor.Old.Tired.Horse exhibition about text-based art and concrete poetry; wandering across Wandsworth Common and Battersea Park; loving the Barbican Library; investigating local watering holes and discovering secret, leafy Islington canals; eating many a Brick Lane bagel; admiring the beautiful exhibition spaces at the Raven Row gallery; catching up with old friends; tea and lemon cake in the National Gallery cafe; escaping the South Kensington weekend crowds in the Natural History Museum’s sweet little wildlife garden; watching rainstorms from the balcony; al fresco drinks and people-watching by the river at Gordon’s Wine Bar; retro ten-pin bowling and root beer; meandering through the Whitechapel Gallery; cooking up yummy vegetarian delights for a birthday dinner; reading, writing, thinking, planning; following the yellow line around the Barbican and maybe starting to have an idea where I might be going to…