As there will be no travel abroad this year, I am aiming to entertain you with the odd excursion. I apparently started writing this in April and it is now the end of June. Apologies – enjoy the bits I have managed to do!

The Samurai exhibition at the British Museum

This was a very impressive whizz through the history of society in Japan, where the samurai codes applied for hundreds of years and not only in military matters. I warn you that I saw this a little while ago so I can’t remember all the details.

The Holburne Museum, Bath.

This was built as a hotel at the end of the 18C, right next to the Sydney Gardens. These were pleasure gardens, built in an effort to emulate Vauxhall and Ranelagh in London. Concerts and other entertainments were held here and people would come for supper and romantic intrigues. The building became a museum in 1892, following the bequest of the massive and eclectic collection of Sir William Holburne to the people of Bath. At the time of my visit, there was a Zandra Rhodes exhibition. It is interesting that her clothes made in the late 60s and early 70s using Indian fabric, looked really outré at the time but much more mainstream now.

There are other glorious things in the main museum collection, including jewellery, china and paintings.