This month I wanted to write about four of the arty, media-cultural moments I’ve had since writing my last column.
They range from the sublime to the ridiculous; the Byzantium exhibition at the Royal Academy, music by Vaughan Williams at a church concert, High School Musical 3 and a derelict flat full of copper sulphate crystals. Three of them contained real little treasures and one was a real shocker.
Crystals in the flat
Let me start off with the condemned flat in Elephant and Castle which I headed off to with a group of friends on a grey and rainy Saturday morning, all kitted out in wellies.