So, Jude safely deposited with said vetinary surgeon, I trundled off to St Johns Wood to see the Simeon Solomon exhibition at the Ben Uri gallery. Doh! Jewish New Year - gallery closed! What are the chances?

Back on the Jubilee line to the Royal Academy for an eyeful of Rodin. This is a strange old exhibition. First of all you're confronted with the Gates Of Hell (see below) which is hardly the warmest of welcomes, and then all manner of rather distressing sculptures. Big hands, big feet, lumpy, bumpy, swollen and bulging...but that's enough about me. The sculptures which work for me are so powerful and captivating. They draw you in completely. Much didn't, but those that do make this exhibition well worth visiting. I'm going to give it a 6/10.