I am actually VERY respectful of this place, just still in a silly mood. Gabriella and I will see a few museums this week. We were in John Soane’s house on Thursday, which is wonderful (talk about an emporium) with plans for the Tate Britain and Portrait Gallery Sunday and Monday. I love the V&A but we got mired in the decorative arts and lost momentum after a couple hours. There’s so much variety to see but it’s easy to meander into a wing and not surface for 45 minutes, after which you are desperate for a cup of tea and would afterwards rather just browse in the museum shop than say, plunge into oriental antiquities.

(from Sunday) I loved this piece at the Portrait Gallery, and as it features Victoria and Albert doing some of their other good works, I thought I’d put it here. It’s a beautiful painting by Jerry Barrett and a collective portrait of identified people, including the wounded soldiers.