Always a treat to revisit Starry Night. The town under gaslight and reflected in the blue river with the starry sky above. Think Whistler's Nocturnes.
Fascinating Van Gogh exhibition at Tate Britain made me look at many paintings afresh this morning (and book lovers will love it!).

Suddenly, everybody is painting sunflowers (or similar). 

Yellow Chrysanthemums, Christopher Wood, 1925

Autumn Landscape at Dusk, Van Gogh

Van Gogh channelling Atkinson Grimshaw? (I've no idea whether Vincent ever saw his work but I'm sure he'd have liked it!)

Chill October, Millais

But this autumnal Millais was one of his favourites. He saw it once at Christie's and never forgot it.  It's lovely - it hasn't reproduced very well here - and I don't recall ever seeing it before. 

Really enjoyed this film last night about women chefs (and gasped at the misogyny of the men!) -
and I was fascinated to learn about the women who were winning three Michelin stars back in the 1930s. (Here and here.) So much more interesting than tales of men behaving badly.
The cinema was packed, many there seemed to be professionals (recognised Lord Bradford who owned the late-lamented Porters in Covent Garden).
I got chatting to two lovely young women who run a Ghanaian restaurant. Their £10 lunch at the old BBC studios is on my list of things to do very soon.