Good and bad this time! We had a rather frustrating end to yesterday for two reasons. Firstly, we sent a belated wedding present to Ian and Deborah ten days ago, without knowing they had moved a few months ago. It hasn't turned up yet - although I have faith that we will track it down!

Secondly, we are pretty sure that we booked on line a couple of weeks ago, before we went to Calistoga, for a new and very popular exhibition of wooden animals, called Noah's Ark, but suddenly realise we have nothing to show for it - and can't get hold of a human being at the venue! Also it is now booked up until September 18, which is of no interest to us! This may or may not resolve itself! We might just turn up - but I'm not hopeful.

To compensate, we booked to go to Joe's for dinner tonight and went to the Franklin Murphy sculpture garden at UCLA this afternoon.

You might well ask 'how many sculpture gardens can there be in LA?' I would say 'Never enough'. It was a good one, although it did try to rain a tiny bit. 70 sculptures, including Hepworth, Moore and Gill. No Frink, though. Only a handful of women out of the whole lot. Maybe my old sculpture tutor at Chelsea was right. He told me that 'women just aren't strong enough to be sculptors'! Horrible man! Barbara Hepworth certainly proved him wrong and made up for it.

I mustn't leave out last night. We went to a concert of Cello and Bagpipes at the Schindler House. It was experimental music and my resident expert described it as 'interesting noise with no rhythm.' I describe it as 'pretty awful' - but we are both glad we went, because that is what you need to do in LA. Also, it was nice to go to a concert at Schindler's house - and use his loo!

Another excellent link to terrytrick pix, this time UCLA sculpture
http://web.mac.com/terrytrick/iweb/California/FranklinMurphy.html