Cartier

Up to London for a meeting in the morning, the office was nice and full and so proper conversations occurred.  These informal chats, that often develop into something more purposeful is the thing I miss working more from home and from a satellite office (the main company is based in Dublin).  Grabbed a sushi lunch and then went into Soho for a meeting with a writer.  I then went on to South Ken to meet up with HB to see the Cartier exhibition but she bailed on me as she was a bit overwhelmed with stuff.  So I wandered around alone.  It was a fascinating exhibition and full of objects of great beauty.  Some owned by the V&A, some by the Crown but most by Cartier from their archives.  That was occasionally fascinating with some historic pieces and some peculiar one offs.  Ultimately though it left me slightly cold as there wasn’t quite enough of human interaction in the whole.  
But it was stunning overall.  

Then HB, V and I met up back in Soho for a meal in the Four Seasons…Chinatown.  Duck pancakes and the like.  It was an old school unprepossessing restaurant but the food was good. 

We then went to see GIANT the play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism which was extremely good.  Towering, (literally, he’s very tall) performance by John Lithgow which so blurs the line between inhabiting and representation that you occasionally have to remind yourself it isn’t Roald Dahl.  IT’s a powerful play and one that slightly takes the shine off the BFG. 

Managed to get the 1030 train back and in bed by 1am!