London Still Rocks!

Last Saturday .. well, someone from  LoMAZ  suggested creating an event to eat  sachertorte . The  Lanesborough Hotel  is hosting a temporary  pop-up , giving you the chance to eat sachertorte and apfelstrudel prepared to the original recipe of the  Hotel Sacher  in  Vienna . However, wouldn't you know it, that was the only day this month that suited James to meet! T he group was headed to a  ceilidh  that evening, but I said I'd skip it and hang out with James and Mark and Martin, if it suited.. ah, the difficulties of scheduling! But then, when I asked about timings, the organiser said he'd completely forgotten about it - and was it Saturday or Sunday? Well, I didn't have anything for Sunday, so asked for that, and he was fine with it.. but a couple of others weren't. Unfortunately, I was outvoted.. and then someone else couldn't do Saturday, so it ended up as Sunday after all, phew! Sorted. Martin, unfortunately, had a family thi...

Tonight, second in a row with CT,  Down to Chance  is a comedy play about the  Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 , and a local radio operator's role in helping. Showing at the  Pleasance Theatre . I t was just yesterday that I realised I hadn't thought about food - been too busy, I guess! Well, The Depot   pub is right next door, and does food. I emailed them to book. To be fair, they got back to me quickly enough - to say they were booked for a private event. Ho-hum - with a great lack of places to eat around there, I decided to eat around home instead, and made my way to the Pommeler's Rest . Got there nice n early, managed a table not in direct sunlight - it was a very sunny day. Had my usual chicken katsu curry, but was a bit nervous about ordering the wine - Wetherspoon's now makes you choose a spritzer option, but I don't want spritzer. One option is "standard", which I chose - happily, that turns out to be the non-spritzer option. Could be phrased b...

Just started  two nights of cheap shows courtesy of CT. Tonight, I saw  Ancient Grease , a parody of the famous musical,  Grease , but - well - set in  Ancient Greece ! specifically, on  Olympus , and focusing on the love affair between  Hera  and  Zeus . Showing in the  Vaults Theatre  - which I could walk to, in a pinch, considering we had another Tube strike today. Happily, we were absolved of the duty of going into the office this week, because of the strikes. I left in ok time.. headed for Dockhead , since there were two buses that could get me where I was going, both of which stop there. One of them had just left the stop.. mind you, there was such a traffic jam that I figured I could beat it to the next stop . Not only did I manage that, but to play my game for a bit while I waited.. Well, traffic improved after that bottleneck - but by the time I alighted, it was still a bit late for a proper meal. Now, Google Maps showed a P...

Tonight, back with the  Crick Crack Club  at  Folklore , where  Nell Phoenix  delivered a show called  Uncanny , a set of apparently true scary stories. Tickets from  Dice , as ever, and I was eating beforehand in  The Blues Kitchen Shoreditch , as usual. This strike  promised to be over by evening. Well now, I guess nobody told the bus passengers that, because the buses were rammed. Crazy busy, I was lucky to get on, glad to get off. Plus they were all delayed. Happily, today's was a short journey - at that, I couldn't get a bus quite close enough, and had to walk the last bit. I was five minutes late, but hey, they were practically empty! I got a table without issue, was served at lightning speed - and oh, it was good. Had one glass of wine, and when I was finished all that, it was late enough that by the time I got to the venue, the doors would be open, so off I went. Pity really - Wednesday is cocktail night, they're all on sale.. Got mys...