Last night I went along to the opening of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Centre. Every once in awhile I get an invitation to these things, I managed to get on a list somewhere and it’s fun to take advantage of it. Louise Bourgeois is the same artist who did the “maman” series of spiders – you may have seen one outside the Gallery in Toronto or the Tate Modern, or more recently outside the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Huge sculptures of spiders. Really great.

Anyway, the rest of her sculptures have never really turned me on but I went along taking Valerie with me. It was a retrospective kind of exhibition, more than 200 works, paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures from 1938 to 2007 (she’s 96 years old) – and I have to admit I loved more pieces than I disliked – especially her early paintings, and of course another “maman” who was installed on the ground floor of the Pompidou centre – creeping out most people on their way in.

Michelle is back tonight, she’s been in Stuttgart and London this week while I’ve been having coffee with friends, taking a few pictures, trolling the book stores and newsagents for one (or ten!) magazines, eating out and generally enjoying myself… Tonight I had to do a flyby clean of the apartment as she’s getting back earlier than expected, not enough time to make that carrot and ginger soup as promised – we’ll have to go out!