Bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast.....yesss. Doug is off to Hamburg on business so I catch a lift into Aberdeen with Anne. First stop Waterstones bookshop to spend the vouchers Sarah gave me for Christmas. Quickly find four books including one recommended by Phil Jackson. It is very cold with an icy wind so I head for the Art Gallery. The ground floor is given over to an exhibition of modern art most of which I would put in the rubbish basket. Perhaps one day someone will be able to persuade me that I should take some of this modern stuff more seriously but they will have to work hard. What looked like temporary tiered seating was curled into a part circle and......well that was it!!! Beats me.
In the upstairs galleries there was the usual permanent collection, and much more to my taste. The first room full of Victorians, including a number of paintings by William Dyce, apparently a favourite of Prince Albert. One of two of his paintings showed Pre-Raphaelite influence. A large Landseer dominated one wall. In the next room there were paintings by Peter Bruegel, Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth. More modern artists occupied the next room, including L S Lowry and possibly my favourite a painting of Southwold Beach by Stanley Spencer. It was time to meet up with Anne again but I intend to get back to this gallery if I can.
We had 45 minutes to kill before lunch so we went into the Maritime Museum. This was an attractive place recently expanded into a neighbouring Methodist church. It houses displays on the local fishing and shipbuilding industry and of course plenty of exhibits on the offshore oil industry. Lunch called to interrupt our visit. La Bonne Brasserie was a quiet, bistro style eatery with an excellent menu, Anne had duck salad, I had creamy chicken pasta all washed down with a glass of Chilean sauvignon blanc.
Back home then for a quiet afternoon and evening, reading, dozing off in front of the television etc.
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