Slight change of routine this year. With New Year's Eve being on Sunday our usual celebratory trip to London to see a musical was brought forward a day. Lucky really as there is a train strike today! Caught the 11.00am train and no trouble with seats, in fact London not exactly busy with bargain hunters, or did we just visit the wrong places? On arrival we made our way to New Bond Street to see an exhibition of photographs of Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold. There'd been mention of this exhibition in the Sunday Telegraph magazine a couple of weeks ago and as Marilyn's spell seems to affect us all, thought it would make interesting viewing. There weren't many photos, but those there were impressive, more impressive were the prices people were prepared to pay to own a print. Prices started at around £1200... Downstairs were other paintings for sale and interestingly three originals of L.S. Lowry. In our family, legend has it that he used to stay with his aunt in Carterton (near Brize Norton) and buy apples from my great aunt. Apparently he gave one of his paintings to his aunt, but none of our family ever got to see it...
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