A new exhibition opened on Saturday titled 'Nothing in the World but Youth'. This comprises, in the main, pictures by or of young people. Both paintings and photographs. There are other exhibits such a a whole wall covered with tee shirts in many colours each with a slogan printed on the front. These were mostly anti establishment or revolutionary and not an art form that I can appreciate.
Regrettably they have introduced a ban on photography so I can not show anything that I did appreciate. I DID sneak a shot of this. It is a well presented analysis of the results of a questionnaire put to 50 boys and 50 girls ages from 12 to 15 at a local Technical College.
Sorry it is not very legible but I DID have to SNEAK a shot.
The things that struck me were the large amount of time spent each day watching TV or on the Internet, and the very small amount of time spent reading. Almost half the girls and a third of the boys felt that school was unnecessary. And 21% of girls and 33% of boys find school boring.
I said to Mrs G, "That says it all!". A very poor reflection on todays youth. No doubt many of the youngsters took the opportunity to take an extreme view but the more I see of todays educational standards in the UK, the more despondent I become. I am sure things were better in my time.
Moving on, we had a flask of coffee and some salmon and cucumber rolls so we moved along the coast to Minnis Bay for our picnic.
It was very overcast cloud with a keen Westerly, not good to take the chairs to the beach 
, but good for the windsurfers, but certainly not good for the large school party that had come down from London for a day at the beach. 5 coachloads so probably around 300 including some parents and teachers.Felt very sorry for them but they made the most of things......and the lad in the centre of this picture was determined not to be outdone by the weather, he strpped to his swimming shorts whilst some pals are wrapped up in coats and hoodies........
And one of those who appreciated the wind.
