Art and Caesars

Travelled to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UAE Norwich today. Big grey building, impressive footbridge. Art collection arranged rather loosely, but fascinating when very modern art (Bacon, Picasso) juxtaposed with very primitive artefacts (up to 4000BC). For example, a Giacometti figure next to a female idol. Then, after a good lunch, into the 'Surrealist Friends' exhibition - not thrilling, some interest downstairs.

Meanwhile reading 'American Caesars', fascinating vignettes of all the post-war US Presidents. One or two amazing things - Carter lost to Reagan because Reagan fixed the Iranians release of the hostages, i.e. the US election was decided in Tehran!

Blog returns to life

I am planning to return to more regular blogging here in the next few months. I will aim to include a mix of personal reflection, book reviews, and occasional snippets from the RHDR.
I have zeroed the statcounter to start again. For tyhe record it was at 1543 when I reset it.


For starters, Gary showed me how to produce wordles. Here is one produced from the text of the book of Revelation: