Capt SpaceBat

Today was my wife’s 57th birthday.  After a breakfast of bruschetta and goat’s cheese on potato farls and scrambled eggs on toasted farls that I rustled up, we made our way to the Tate Modern to see the Mark Rothko exhibition - due to the massive popularity of the colour field artist and it being just about the last week of the exhibition, there was a 150 minute wait for tickets.  Passing up the dubious honour of hanging around an abandoned power station for 2.5 hours, we continued along the South Bank of the Thames, watching the tourists watching everything that moved or stayed still.

Crossing the Thames, I was able to confirm that my pontiphobia - or whatever the fear and dread of crossing bridges is called* - was well and truly under control** as we made our way to a favourite pub in the area: “The Ship and Shovel” which has the unique feature of being on two sides of a thoroughfare - trust me, it really is two bars on opposing sides of Craven Passage, just up from the nightspot Heaven.

Our spirits revived, we crossed back to Las Iguanas, where we had three course meal that couldn’t be beat and thence to the Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre to see Tomas Kubinek, the “Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible” for 90 minutes of mind-boggling acrobatics and surreal eccentric mime.  Just about the most talkative mime I have ever seen - or heard.  Quite a life-affirming experience to be taken into the magical world of Kubinek’s dramatic diversions and cures for melancholia.

Well, I thought - if he can do all this after all the troubles he has seen in has early life (thanks Uncle Leonid!) - then so can I …

… which is why I thought his self-description was so apt for today’s blog.  More of which at some future point.

Now, for the customary occasional photographs: inspirations today for artistic endeavours

 View from a bridge and Ascending and Descending

** http://fearofbridges.com/ - Resources and Help for Those with a Fear of Bridges

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