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Film: Roar

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Just started   six consecutive days of Meetup ! Tonight, I was back with The Hideout , for Roar , a comedy documentary about Tippi Hedren , her daughter, Melanie Griffith , and her husband , who directed and co-wrote it.. and some lions. Apparently Tippi Hedren is a real lover of animals. And as the blurb says, no animals were harmed in the making of this film - 70 cast and crew, including all of the above, were! It looked ridiculously OTT - and as someone says, this makes a mockery of Tippi Hedren claiming she was traumatised by Hitchcock attacking her with birds on the set of The Birds ! Anyway, showing in The Nickel . My company gives an extra hour off on Fridays in summer, so I got off early and headed for food in The Sun Wharf , which is on the way - was lucky to get a table when some people got up - then got a bus , and as usual, ended up waiting outside the cinema for the bar to open: I was literally the first person in the bar - met the organiser when he arrived, ...
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Concert: Falla 150

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Have to give kudos to the driver that got me to work this morning.. not only did he stop, having pulled away already, to accommodate someone who was running, but I happened to be last off, with my rucksack on my back, and as I alighted, he closed the doors a little quickly and kind of caught it. Would you believe, as I walked past the door, he called to me to apologise! Honestly, there are some really nice bus drivers out there.. Tonight , back with TAC for Falla 150, a tribute to the Spanish composer, Manuel de Falla , at St. Clement Danes church - part of the Echoes Festival of Latin Classical Music . Regular tickets from Ticketsource . Booked to eat at Cote Covent Garden beforehand. Well, I could - and did - walk from the office, arriving slightly late - 2 minutes - and was seated pretty quickly. And then forgotten about - until the maitre d' glanced in my direction and sent someone to take my order. And then I was kept waiting for the wine, until the guy who'd take...
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London Wine Meetup

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I had a half-day today because I had a root canal this afternoon - they actually called this morning to move me a bit earlier, so I had to leave a little earlier than anticipated. I planned to have lunch beforehand, at the George , which is right nearby - they warned me to eat beforehand, saying I'd feel a bit numb afterwards and wouldn't want to. And that's how it went - I could walk there, where all the outside tables were occupied, but there was plenty of room inside. Unfortunately, order from app wasn't working, so I had to queue at the bar. Which took time, but service was quick - albeit they served the karaage chicken I wanted as a starter slightly after my main. Ah well. It was all good - I squeezed in a second glass of wine before I had to leave. Couldn't fault the root canal - it was almost painless, albeit so long that I felt I'd been through an ordeal. For a couple of hours afterwards, it felt as though my mouth was hoiked up at one side, with the nu...
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Southwark Cathedral Summer Organ Festival & Cabaret: Make It Reign for Dad

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Of course, it's taken days just to get the weekend's blog post out, hence the delay in writing up other events..   The last two days were with TAC. O n Monday, I was at Southwark Cathedral Summer Orga n Festival. My sometime companion said she was coming too, as she has before, but in the event she cancelled. I had planned to eat beforehand - but work is crazy busy, so I hung on to do some more of that - the concert wouldn't be over so late that I couldn't eat afterwards. Walked there, of course.. Now, I'd done something to my knee overnight, and actually had some trouble getting down the steps into the cathedral! Even getting up from a chair, and sitting again, is still a bit sore. Anyway, I got a seat reasonably near the front. Gee, I don't remember noticing these decorations before.. And aww, the cathedral puddy-tat made an appearance! as usual. An usher was trying to persuade him into a side passage, but he only got this far (obviously keeping an eye on al...
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Daytrip to Cardiff, Proms, & British Museum

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Comprising the last two of four days of Meetups , t he weekend, as so often, belonged to London Museums A-Z . On Saturday, I was on a daytrip with them to Cardiff .. hadn't been there since a U2 concert, back in 2009! Booked my train with Uber , who got me an economical split fare without me having to figure anything out, and we planned to head to the castle and the museum . We were all on the same train, albeit our organiser, Bobo, wasn't joining till Swindon , where she lives. And although GWR 's WiFi wasn't terrific, it was sufficient for us to message each other - so we found out we were sat near each other. Except JW, who had no idea where he was, but happily, was at least on the same train.. I was close enough to the seat Bobo had booked that I went and sat in the free seat beside her when she arrived, which was nice - we had a great old chat all the way. We all finally convened outside Cardiff Central Station , where someone was doing a turn: It wasn...
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