A road-trip to lift the spirits, though the traffic, road works and a parking crisis almost overwhelmed me.
Eventually we entered the serious Philips Collection and wow it was worth it. Not least for the 1930s oval spiral staircase that J loved and yellow tiled inglenook fireplace with Henry Moore and Bonnard sketches above, a Rothko room, a giant but casual Renior, a gleaming Brancusi - 'an egg with two bites out of it' - but also an intense room simply plastered in bees wax and honey droplets.
J studiously sketched a Kuhn - the exhibition poster girl with feather plumes and a 'bored' expression - amidst the legs of a large tour group. It all was very civilized yet happily child-friendly.
