That was one long day!

Left home at 8am with Gaby, drove through rush hour traffic to the University of Warwick, which is closer to Leamington Spa than Warwick! Managed to find one of the last few spaces in car park 15 and went to the Drama Degree course. It seems to be very much more the intellectual and theoretical side of drama that they teach there, which seems to suit G. Left her there for her tour and interview etc, while I went for a very long walk around the campus and a little way off it too.

The Warwick Arts Centre is on campus and contains a theatre, cinema, restaurant, conference facilities, restaurant and a very good bookshop. After a quick trip to the shops to buy a toaster, it was meet up with G again, jump back in the car and then fight the evening rush hour into Birmingham and pop in to see Philip. Gave him the toaster and also the laundry basketful of stuff he forgot to take back 3 weeks ago! Things like laptop battery, phone spare battery, socks, anglepoise, medicine ball (don't ask), to mention but a few. Good to see him and have a chat face to face rather than over the phone. He is sort of tolerating his Masters course this year, but wants to move to Manchester if possible to do some, in his eyes, better theoretical physics. I think he has a plan that will work.

Then G and I battled the dreadful traffic through the middle of the city to spaghetti junction. After that, I had no complaints about the roads - well except the lorries which insist they are faster than each other and then proceed to run side by side for miles until one misses a gear and has to concede to the other. In the meantime there is a trail a mile long of cars waiting to get past!

Finally arrive home in time to eat, blip and bed.

This photo is of a sculpture by British artist Mark Titchner, made of oak and metal, which can be found inside the Warwick Art Centre. is over 12m long. The text references Shakespeare's All the World's a Stage, and the broader cultural question of the digital age about the relationship between audiences and a live performance.