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Play: Blessings

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Tonight , headed to  Blessings  at  Riverside Studios  - a play about a staunchly religious family in the 60s, with change in the offing. Damnit, I saw it was on CT, checked to see whether full-price tickets were more expensive, which they were - and accidentally booked one of those instead! At least it was on late, so I had time to organise myself! Now, a while ago, I ordered a warm black coat on Amazon , to be delivered to an Amazon locker - for once, they gave me a long collection window, but when I saw the temperature forecast for the day, I decided today might be the day to pick it up! In the event though, the coat I wore to walk to the collection point was absolutely fine - but at least I've picked up the other one. Mind you, speaking of weather forecasts, it didn't say it was likely to rain today, but it did as I headed out.. This distance requires Tube - I had to stand on both, but on the much less crowded Piccadilly Line , there was aircon. Arriving at Hamm...
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Play: Lifers

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Tonight, second   Meetup   in a row, back with  Up in the Cheap Seats  for  Lifers , a prison drama at  Southwark Playhouse  - was delighted I still had credit on my  PAYG  subscription with them. I'm in walking distance. I fully intended to walk - but lo, arguably the daftest team at work wanted me to expunge the documents in the folder they wanted to add to the published build. They'd reviewed one, they wanted everything else gone. That rang warning bells.. as I said, are you sure all these others aren't needed? I'd already edited two others.. I checked with the person in charge - sure enough, there were three more that needed to be included. Three that they hadn't reviewed yet.. so there I was, all afternoon, zipping from A to B to C to B to C to A to.. whatever they had last looked at and decided could be tweaked. When someone decided that the new screenshots were a bit blurry.. so they'd have to provide new ones.. and it was about 5...
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Film: Good Boy

Today, back with  The Hideout  for  Good Boy  - a horror film from the perspective of a dog just trying to protect its master! Happening in  Cineworld Leicester Square  - details announced on Tuesday - and I booked to eat in  Bella Italia  beforehand, of course. Wow, amazing - my bus came exactly as scheduled! Unprecedented, in a long time. I was slightly late for my booking though.. and you could tell the manager that chats to me wasn't there, because they waited a good while to take an order they should have known by heart. To be fair though, I got my regular table, service after that was quick, and the only reason I didn't finish my dinner was the half packet of Tim Tams I consumed before I left. Ah well.. We were meeting at  Victory House.  I was glad when the organiser messaged that he was there - I was sick of forcing food into me. The people in Victory House knew me too, of course, and I didn't bother asking what wine they had ...
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Stories in the Dark

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Today, storytelling from the  Crick Crack Club !  Ben Haggarty  and  Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson  were to perform  Stories in the Dark  at the  Richmond Lending Library . Sold out well in advance, I believe. It's too far to depend on buses. In fact, it's too far even to depend on the Tube the whole way - the only way there in under an hour was to get the Jubilee Line to Waterloo , then a train to Richmond . After a lovely, long, much-needed lie-in, I just managed to squeeze out the last blog post before I left, yay! And it's just as well I wasn't depending on a bus to take me to London Bridge to catch the Tube - because, as I was walking there, not a single one passed me that I could have taken. Got to Waterloo - too late for the train that would have gotten me to the library at 4.15, as instructed.. but I carefully read the emails they sent, and it seemed the show wouldn't start until 4.30. Plus they tend to start late. So I hadn't given up hope j...
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Dark Secrets: The Esoteric Exhibition

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Currently in a few more days of horror. Last night, I went to  Dark Secrets: The Esoteric Exhibition  at  Waterloo Vaults  - sounded too interesting to miss! Someone I knew from The Hideout was going too, but earlier - he said he'd wait for me. I booked with Fever , and handily enough they sent me a reminder email just beforehand, complete with QR code. Someone was busy overnight.. Oh Lordy, what has happened to the buses?! There are two buses I can catch from home straight to Waterloo - one is the infamous #188 - and neither was coming last night! Oh, the display said they were coming.. Google Maps said they were coming.. and then the old trick of the ETA getting later and later.. until they were going to be too late to get me there in time. So I decided the most sensible thing to do was to catch the #47 - which, amazingly, was coming - it wasn't going to Waterloo, but it was going to London Bridge , and I could catch the Jubilee Line from there to Waterloo! ...
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