Bath

I was booked on an afternoon train back to London so we had the morning to do something more in the locality. as Lorna had to act as unpaid uber to her daughter and friends for a university open day, Tim and I planned to head down to the two art galleries in town to see the Bruegel exhibition in one and an exhibition of major 20th century news photographs in the other.

However, I awoke to find a little note pinned to the upstairs loo saying not to use as it there had been a leak. It seems Tim had come down to the downstairs loo and found the floor covered in water which he assumed had come from the upstairs one. A plumber was hastily called.

Having found nothing amiss there seemed no alternative but to flush and see what happened. Tim stood with bucket at ceiling to catch the cascade and....nothing. At all. Tim said he was sure he hadn't dreamt it. I told him if that was his idea of a wet dream he was doing it wrong. However, repeated flushings eventually proved Tim right and there was a satisfying drip out of the light fitting. Something had to be done.

So while Tim and the plumber got to work, I duly went into town to see the exhibition now with eldest son, Ben, as my companion. No hardship this. Always an interesting chap to talk to, and now 21 and graduated he is a far cry from the bouncing baby I once recall bottle-feeding! So we enjoyed the excellent (but for £10 very small) Bruegel exhibition, then pottered around the rest of the Museum, had a stroll around the gardens

 and then settled in for lunch at the Horniman Museum's very decent restaurant. This soon became a family gathering as Lorna miraculously found a parking spot after her taxi services and Tim walked down after plumbing exploits (what people will do escape me for a morning).

After lunch Tim and I headed for the Victoria galleries which have a nice art collection of their own, although one that fits into a single gallery.

And we enjoyed the photographic exhibition too - many familiar shots of war scenes, and some unfamiliar ones, from Spanish Civil War, WW2, Vietnam, Middle-East. Lots of conflicts to see, sadly.