Monday 19th: Southwark

Monday morning 8.30 and we had to go back to Paddington St Mary's for another scan to check Little Blob's umbilical cord was all ok. It was, to our huge relief. We got to see the little fella again, hear the heartbeat and got some new snaps.

I then headed to Southwark for a meeting at Tate Modern. I love Southwark Underground station and always excites me with it's reflective surfaces, graceful curves and grand, airy concourse.

Leaving Southwark station you're confronted by this awesome beauty, which I think is the London Development Agency. It's off-perpendicular angles are dramatic and the mirrored surfaces beautifully reflect cloud configurations. One of the best new buildings built in London in the past 5 years.

Next treat was discovering that Tate have secured a long term loan for a recent group of Gerhardt Richters, first shown at the Venice Biennale. These are a major work, of great significance, by one of the last great living modern painters.

At the meeting, I met a man named Mr Green, who works in Conservation. He's spent the past 2 years working on a Turner, which at some point in it's long life, has had it's paint lifted from it's original surface and secured to a new one.