We had a lazy start to Sunday then visited the Art Gallery of NSW to have a look at the Monet exhibition. The gallery was heaving with large numbers of people from just about all walks of life and all ages drawn to some 'great' works of art. There were indeed some lovely paintings by Monet and other impressionists: haystacks (of course) and the facade of the cathedral; images of water lilies and a Japanese bridge in the garden at Giverney (not Givenchy as I wrote in an article years ago!).
After a very late lunch in the mobbed gallery cafe we strolled through the Botanic gardens where, next to the statue of a boy removing a thorn from his foot, we assembled a forty-piece Monet jigsaw puzzle, taking more time than either of us thought we might take. Spike read to me from John Boyd's The Pollenators Of Eden - a piece of very 1970's science fiction ... but fun.
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