Almost a week since I last posted, which is almost a record. The reason for this, of course, is that I have absolutely no news.

I have spent the week telling groups of 100+ students who neither care nor understand all about how to open a bank account in the UK. Yesterday I made my annual pilgrimage to the Chelsea College Art Show, which I think is the best show out of all of them in the University. i think this is mostly because it is the oddest. Firstly, it is scattered with apparent randomness throughout the Millbank building with paintings and sculptures in corridors and alcoves as well as galleries and even classrooms. Secondly, the work itself is wonderfully diverse, to the point that where one moment you mihgt be looking at a huge canvas ofa grizzly bear catching fish, and the next moment you're tripping over paintpots and boxes which seem to have been left in the middle of the floor, and you glance around sheepishly trying to discover if it's art or not, because you kind of feel you ought to know one way or the other, only you don't. Last year the oddest exhibit probably went to the Hole in The Wall, literally a big square hole in the wall (how did they get that one past the National Trust?) If that's art, my builder should enter for the Turner Prize, in which case we could be sleeping in the same room as a small fortune. (Yes, the hole is still there.) This year, the students have gone overboard (spot the pun as I go on...) and pushed the boat out (there I go again) on creating the Weird and Wonderful, with their major exhibit being a large boat with a woman living on board, apparently in solitary confinement. Said woman recently sailed round the world in said boat, so I'm told, but for the next few days she's stuck inside it and sedentary on the parade ground at Chelsea. You can't talk to her; you can't even see her. Maybe she isn't even there at all - I think that's why it's art.