Hot times in London with some NSFW in blackpropaganda

I first went to London on my own when I was 13 - we only lived 20 miles away and it was easy to get there - my mum warned me about men in public toilets - although I had no idea what she was getting at - read Joe Orton’s diaries and you can see why she worried.
Anyway - I loved walking a round and taking the Tube - and worked there for six months or so commuting by train. Now - I do not know how people cope with it. At one point we tried to get from Westminster to St Paul’s and gave up since there was no movement in the traffic - new design buses are fully enclosed but the a/c does not always work and in temperatures of over C30 degrees they are like hothouses stuck in traffic. You are in danger of being mown down by a peleton of cyclists at any junction - and don’t get me on the crocodiles of tourists - hold on, I was a tourist too!!!!
Given all those caveats it was a great time - and we did everything we intended to - apart from Evensong at St Paul’s - and as always found the Premier Inn by the London Eye a great base - although housed in the old County Hall on the Thames it has no a/c (did not notice many Americans using it) - but our fan was on 24 hours a day - and we survived OK.

As always we enjoyed the Summer Exhibition - and great to get tickets to get in at 10 am when it is relatively empty and just wander around. Well over 1500 works of art of all kinds - from this Tom Phillips

to this

Called ‘I’m alright Jack’ - and I love watching people go round and look at this kind of exhibit and get a reaction.
This intrigues we too - a smallish figure of a climber - and then you look at the base - do you see what I see?

and what about these two?

And the Georgia O’Keefe exhibition at Tate Modern was different in that it had pictures from her whole career - and had only two flower pictures emphasising her opinion that they were not about sexuality.
I loved this one of barns -

and an upbeat message in this dark period from the Summer Exhibition from Bob and Roberta Smith (which is a pseudonym for an artist called Patrick Brill)