Museum showcased

I went to St Catherine's this morning and celebrated the Eucharist with a congregation of four. Responded to an appeal by Emma to cover the Sunday Mass at St Peter's Fairwater the Sunday after next while she's on sick leave after the same minor surgery as I had. 

There was house cleaning to do, which didn't get done on Monday, and the veggie bag to be collected before cooking lunch.  Then, another walk to the shops to collect our grocery order from Beanfreaks. Non stop domesticity today.

A belated birthday card arrived from Rachel and Jasmine, plus an unusual fridge magnet with a colourful design on it designed by Jasmine. A nice little surprise.

This evening on telly, another marvellous insight into the work of the V&A museum's conservators, this week showing preparations for a special exhibition of 20th century African fashion and design, featuring a Ghanaian woman's Kente cloth, bought to wear at the Christening of her first child in 1960. It also showed photographs taken by James Borner a Ghanaian man who worked in Accra and London, pioneering the use of colour photography with African fashionistas as his subjects. Aged 92, he was interviewed at an exhibition preview, expressing satisfaction at having his work recognised at last, albeit thirty years later than he'd have liked to have this happen! 

The programme also highlighted a unique collection of Rodin bronze sculptures loaned to the museum, when they couldn't be returned to Paris at the outbreak of World War One. It was controversial at that time for a major collection of work by a living artist to be shown in a museum. Rodin was so pleased at the way his work was displayed, he decided to give the priceless collection to the V&A. What a rewarding hour's viewing.  

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter sermon condemnation of the government policy of exporting some asylum seekers to Rwanda to deter people smuggling seems to have met with much public approval, but not from the Prime Minister whose ill judged, poorly informed backlash remarks about Anglican church leaders will doubtless contribute further to a decrease in his popularity and authority. He is helping to make his party un-electable by clinging on to power since his lies and deceit have been unmasked. There's none so blind as those who refuse to see the truth.