Culture vulture

The Lowry

I went for a day out in Manchester yesterday with my sister from another mister Eily, we went to the Lowry and the outlet mall next door, she's not my sister really lol, just a good friend but we get on well and are similar in some funny little ways that we jokingly call each other sis. It was a last minute decision to meet up again, during a chat the other day about being bored we mentioned going to The Lowry one day for a visit and then on wednesday when we saw the weather wasn't going to be too bad for thursday we decided to go. I had such a good time and we even saw a famous person Sir Ian Mckellan.
There's a twenty minute film about Lowry and we were just finishing watching that when a door to the side of the screen opened and people came out including a man with a television camera and others carrying other equipment and then sis went 'ooh thats him.' and there was Ian Mckellan !!!! What a shock.
Eil quick as a flash had her camera and was off folllowing him for a photo. She managed to get a couple of photos of him sideways on as he walked away, but he acted like he hadn't heard or seen us. It must be so weird being famous and people recognising you all over the place. It was certainly weird for us seeing him out of the blue like that. We have no idea why he was there or what he was doing either.

Sir Ian Mckellan

Once we'd calmed down we looked round the gallery at the paintings, it seems like Lowry was a sad lonely man and I think you can feel this in his paintings, after watching the film and looking at the paintings I wanted to give him a hug. It was really interesting and my first time in a proper gallery which I really enjoyed.

The film we watched and also on right door Ian Mckellan came out of

There was also an exhibition by Spencer Tunick called everyday people which was not really my cup of tea. A load of naked people in different poses and different places, the oddest one was a photo of  a bus full of people crushed up against the windows with their bits and boobs pressed against the glass. One good thing though was that after seeing the shapes and sizes of the people on the photos I didn't feel so bad about my wobbly bits.
We also had fun catching trams and chatting to random people, I don't know what it is about Eil but when I'm with her we always end up chatting to people. A lovely lady adopted us and showed us what tram to catch from victoria and then walked us over to the next stop for our second tram we needed. A lovely gentleman took a piccy of sis n me outside the lowry too and didn't steal my camera either lol. Plus we spoke to a couple of other people and staff in places we asked questions of who were friendly and helpful too. Manchester people seem so friendly, dare I say maybe even friendly than us yorkshire folk!!!!!!!!!!!

Me and sis