September 2010 the interior of the Barbican flat On my birthday Hannah and I went to Compton Verney (below) to see an exhibition on volcanoes, Turner to Warhol. On hers, we saw a play in Milton Keynes and had dinner before hand.  Hannah is changing the Olney front garden by removing the decaying brick planters and we have bought rocks, and a new Japanese lantern for the back with an internal light. Some fencing is being replaced as well, all hard work. Sheila's annual barbeque had children from three families present. We have been to the Civic Dinner at the Barbers and visited Corpus Christi in Cambridge to see the Parker Library.

This site is about

• The Barbican, the Barbican Centre and the neighbourhood facilities, is now Grade II listed.  It is about 50 years since the first ideas were proposed to develop the bomb-damaged site.  The 12.5 million face-lift to the public areas has been completed, but changes continue, with the opening of flats in Frobisher Court, development of the Heron Tower on the site of the old fire station, and the movement of two cinemas.

• The views from the towers are great and from the balcony one can see a panorama  including St. Paul's and new office building.  Within walking distance are modern office buildings by virtually all of the finest architects of the day.

• The home in Olney

• Family and friends

• Map of the Barbican