Yesterday on my way to Ealing I was able to visit the Tate Modern. I have not been there for years and I only really wandered around two and a half galleries before I had to leave for Ealing, but it was still good to get there.

It has been an aim of mine for this year, so I was glad I managed it, if only for short time. I guess one of the problems of having young children is that when we do go to London they are not yet that keen on wandering around an art gallery!

I was particularly struck by Thomas Hirschorn’s Drift Topography which is a massive cardboard rambling model depicting Iraq. You really had to fight to look in on the model, which is bounded by large cardboard cut-out American soldiers. It showed in a powerful way how trapped in that situation the people of Iraq are.

I was also mesmorised by this work of Christian Boltanski, The Reserve of Dead Swiss The room is darker than it looks in the photo, and walking in was like entering a sacred space given over to the memory of these anonymous people. I just found it quite striking to sit and look at these long forgotten people who in a way, despite their anonymity, are no longer forgotten. That probably only makes sense to me!

I also got a chance to walk on the Millennium Bridge which did not move as much as I thought it would. It’s a great piece of engineering and the views from it are cool too.