Went to the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. It's full of all sorts of objects that are nice to look at.
On the way back I visited the Cartoon Art Trust Museum in Brunswick Centre, near the place where I'm staying. It had an exhibit of H.M. Bateman cartoons from The Tatler between the World Wars.
Phoned the parents in the afternoon.
Dinner was beef stew with mashed potatoes and turnip. They were having a big St. Patrick's Day occasion in the dining hall. (In the street in the evening, I saw quite a few revellers wearing these big, outrageous hats with the Guinness Logo.)
Saw The Rhine Gold, the first of Wagner's Ring operas, in an English National Opera production at the Coliseum, which has just reopened after a handsome restoration. It was in English, like all ENO productions (hence their name), and the ticket cost just five pounds!
It was an enjoyable staging, amusingly transferred to a modern-day setting. (They did some clever stuff with the lighting.) Alberich the dwarf pulled a knife on the mermaids, pole-dancers in flapper dresses, and the underworld god Loge--my favorite character--was a badass in a leather jacket. I love the finale where the gods (who at one point were dressed like in a Spike Lee movie!) cross the bridge into Valhalla.
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