I like them even more now

[lovingboth]

You know those companies / organisations which, when you ring up to cancel your membership, do their best to make it as hard as possible for you to do so?

Well, the Tate isn't one of them. Not only did they send me something to remind me that the current year is up soon, it included the best date to cancel the membership by and, when I rang up, they were lovely about me doing it.

The only reason I'm not renewing my membership is that I'm going to be living rather further than a bus ride away from their London galleries soon. Had I still been in London, this attitude would have been a reason to renew... not that I would ever have known!

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[sfred]

Maybe I should get a membership to replace your membership and reward them for being good.

[lovingboth]

I think it was definitely worth the money if you can go regularly. No need to book for the really big exhibitions, plus when something is crap pretentious crap - as some of it is - then I didn't feel cheated at paying to see it.

I had the 'member plus guest' one which means, if I was taking more than one person, it was simple to go in with person #1, leave them in the first room, dash round to the exit, go in with person #2 etc. Kids go in free with you too.

The watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain is particularly good, even if the last room is only ok because of the curators' sense of humour. In contrast to the many superb pieces in the other rooms, this one has some very poor modern works.. plus some not too dissimilar ones by Turner.