Evening. It’s the Sky Arts
party tonight at Antony
Gormley’s Studio in Kings Cross as his 
groundbreaking artwork  one & other comes to its close.
There is approximately twelve hours left.  Gormley’s studio is  cavernous. His work  suspended from the ceiling still seems  far above. 
The space is filled with people – mainly  television folk –    and the champagne is flowing freely.  

Waiters and waitresses  (I am sure they don't call themselves that anymore) deftly weave their way through the
crowd. Pinafore perfect the “waiters” float,    balancing black slate platters
spotted with canapés. I am sure from above the sculptures see some kind of formation dance.   Within a couple of minutes I’m  chatting with Antony Gormley  who  was
concerned that  One Another, described by
Tim Marlow as the most important public
artwork of the decade,  would be archived
by The British Library, who had originally  made the offer thus giving more life to the
artwork: a celebration of life itself.   

I  was chatting to spritely  Lucy
Lumsden   the   “BBC Comedy Chief”  whom after eleven years left the BBC   to go
to sky recently. We talk with mutual admiration for Henry Normal who she worked with throughout his groundbreaking comedy output – gavin and stacey, mighty boosh etc.  Her friend is a friend of my friend as it goes.   And soon enough the crowd gravitates towards a stage.   There's about an hundred of us in all.

The event was introduced
by head of sky arts then they showed  a  montage of  One & Other,  then the arts presenter Tim Marlow  spoke to  a
clearly emotional Antony Gormley. Listening to them made me love living in
London even more. Afterwards   I had
another chat with Gormley to say goodbye and thanks for the invite. I was an ambassador of the fourth plinth and proud to have played a small part in such an historical project. Tomorrow it will be front page news.   Whitney and I
left the building in perfect time. I am glad she came, otherwise I wouldn't have. 

 I cycle home through the islingtons dickensian  night   using   Iphone GPS technology and  waiting for me are two books. One is Penguin’s book of  Poems for life. It includes Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Carol Ann Duffy and me .   But a little more
valuable is Watering Can,   published by Carcanet Press and written by a
writer whom I like  alot: Caroline Bird. 
It’s been a wonderful day .  I am
back.