A Day in
Wednesday 18 March
On Wednesday 19 we met Helen in
After
meeting her off the train, we explored an area of the town we seldom see,
starting with the
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Teresa particularly enjoyed the selection
of hats both old and new and tried on this fetching number. By a strange coincidence the tag in one of
the hats bore our own name.
We
then wandered in the direction of Merton and Oriel colleges, but wrongly as it
turned out, for we were intending to visit the Modern Art Oxford museum, near
Back on track, Roger and Helen in front of
The
current exhibition was of works by Hannah Rickards and Roelof Louw. Another coincidence: the conductor who had contributed sound
effects for one of the former’s exhibits had been a contemporary of Helen’s at
the
The
‘musical’ contribution was an elaborately constructed orchestral version of an
eight second clap of thunder, which sounded exactly like, well, thunder – at
least it did to Roger who heard it while he was in the appropriate exhibition
room. To the others it was just a
distant murmur, as it was played at random intervals, and, despite repeated
trying, we were never again in the right place at the right time.
◄ The last exhibit we saw was a pile of oranges
by Roelof Louw – yes, one was encouraged to take one of the oranges, thereby
contributing to the work, which Roger duly did.
Before
leaving we had lunch in the cafeteria, which was simple and good.
We
completed the day by walking through
