Sage in England

So, since finishing exams (grades come out tomorrow or Friday -- there will be tears), things have actually gotten a lot busier. Sage was here visiting for four days last week, so we had some good adventures. The first two nights we stayed in Orpington because it was, theoretically, easier to access both Oxford and London from Orpington. But only theoretically, because there was a tube strike going on. That made things more interesting, because it cut down how much time we had in Oxford and meant that when we were in London we had to walk everywhere (I counted it up on Google Maps afterwards and we walked at least ten miles in total on the London day). But I still dragged her around very quickly to all the main sites. She also had a day and a half in Cambridge, which was more relaxed.

Between the two of us we have more than a thousand photos of the week, but I assume that she'll eventually put some of the highlights up on FB. In the meantime, my favorite thing was the installation exhibit at the Tate Modern that was new since the last time I was there in February. Called Bodyspacemotionthings, it was a re-creation of a 1971 exhibit that was shut down after four days because of lawsuit potential. The new version is less fun, because a few parts of it you can't play on in the same way, and because there are guards who make sure that you don't do anything too dangerous, but it still had some fun stuff to play on, including a low tight-rope, a balance beam, and wooden slabs. So Sage and I spent some time there.

























Unfortunately, the exhibit seems to have ended on Sunday (which is when I believe it was scheduled to end), so I guess no one else will see it -- but it was good.