Watched Big Art, which showed public involvement in the artworks in various towns. Amazing monumental sculpture by Jaume Plensa on top of a slag heap in a former mining town. Really wonderful, apparently slagged off by Janet Street-Porter, but what does she know?
Made a soup from the remains of a roast chicken, lemon, potato and cauli with cheese sauce. Very pleasant but there's so much I will have to freeze it.
They are whingeing about the bells of St George the Martyr in the SE1 forum. Apparently they have been ringing loudly for two hours at a time at frequent intervals. Something to do with Whitsun. I used to lie in bed early in the morning when I was in Barcelona, hearing various bells around the town strike the hour. I remember thinking how this had gone on for hundreds of years, and felt some connection with the past, as well as knowing the right time. I don't remember them ringing for hours. I lived near Sagrada Familia, and on various festivals, particular songs were played on the bells. People seem unused to church bells in England, which is a shame. Probably most of the bells in Barcelona were electronic, to be ringing at all hours anyway.
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