Yesterday was a getting out day and so I rode an overcrowded tram into the centre of Nottingham to visit the latest exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery: Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary with my good friend and art guru David Manley. Now we both have a very hit and miss relationship with the gallery which is usually in direct proportion to the quality of the exhibition they are putting on at the time of the visit. This one was a hit and so the gallery is in our good books – for now.

After feasting on the art it was time to feast on, well, food so we walked through the town centre to our favourite Thai eating place, Paste Thai, which was, as usual, excellent. On the way I got to try out my new lens in the main role I bought it for – street photography. Not quite Ernst Haas but then again Nottingham isn’t Manhattan.

After that it was pleasant trip home. The North East has the ‘Angel of the North‘: here in the East Midlands we have Ratcliffe Power Station and yesterday evening it was pumping out CO2 into the atmosphere like there was no tomorrow, which if we keep doing the same there won’t be! Nonetheless in the late afternoon sun it looked majestic.