The British Museum

The British Museum makes a cameo appearance in one of the Gershwins' most famous songs: A Foggy Day. But its fleeting appearance has meaning. Ira Gershwin was a bookish, scholarly man. A man who loved the British Museum and everything that it represents. So for him to write the line: "The British Museum had lost its charm" meant that this foggy day in London town really was a very foggy day indeed.

It wasn't foggy when I walked past the British Museum this afternoon; it was just getting dark. And I was out of sorts because what could've been a free day in London had instead been filled with deadline-fuelled tasks. So - apart from lunch at Morito with my old mate Steve - it was a workaday day in London town.