Letters to friends

In the last 2 weeks we have been to all the new exhibits at the Tate Modern, and the Tate Britain.

None of them were particularly awesome.

My favourite bits were at the altermodern exhibit at the Tate Britain.

One was a sculpture of a 10 meter high atomic mushroom cloud made out of silverware.

Subodh Gupta - Line of Control

The other was a sculpture and some drawings by Charles Avery. We also saw a huge solo exhibit of his at the Scottish Modern Art Gallery in Edinburgh when we were there at new years. This was more stuff from his island series, which is really impressive.

Charles Avery - Aleph null head

Here is my shopping receipt from Sainsbury’s.

They are the closest big supermarket, but their sales are always buy 1 get 1 free, which means you end up with twice as much stuff as you want, and makes carrying everything home a huge pain.

Right now Google says £1 = $2.80 NZ, or $1.80 Canadian

• £1.73 Organic Whole Milk (2 liters)
• £2.00 Garlic bread (4 sticks) – 2 for 1
• £1.26 Tissues (90 sheets) – the type you blow your nose with
• £0.89 Tomato Relish (300g)
• £0.88 Onion and Garlic Sauce (500g)
• £2.49 Sweet Clementines (2 bags of 8 – they are mandarins) – 2 for 1
• £1.99 8 low fat pork sausages
• £1.67 frozen peas (907g)

A few weeks ago, I started doing some exercises in the morning.

I have been using 1 liter milk bottles filled with water as weights. When they started to leak, I figured it was time to take the next step, and bought some cheap dumbbells.

Dumbbells

For £10 I got 2 x 1.5kg, 2 x 3kg and 2 x 5kg.

I think I got a pretty good deal, and the store I bought them from was about a 2km walk from my house, so I ended up getting my first workout with them straight away.

This is what I look like right now

Me