London Still Rocks!

Now in two cheap ticket days. Tonight, back with CT - which is playing a blinder - for Amores Pasados , a medieval concert with a modern twist, at St. Clement Danes . Performed by the Alternative History Quartet , regular-priced tickets from Ticket Tailor . I booked to eat beforehand in Cote Covent Garden . In retrospect, I could have eaten afterwards - it was over early enough, and I could have worked for longer. Certainly have enough to do. But who knows, in these cases? Anyway, I was just preparing to leave, checked how the buses were doing - only to find that my bus was early, and due to leave in two minutes. So I missed that.. and ended up waiting 15 minutes for the next. And I was slightly late for my booking - just over five minutes. I then spent an extra five minutes waiting in the doorway for anyone to notice me! Finally, someone did, and found me a cosy table in the corner, which needed to be cleaned. They were busy as hell. The couple at the next table were waiting on ...

Tonight, back with Up in the Cheap Seats (UITCS) for a flamenco show called UnYdos at Sadler's Wells . Booked to eat at The Wilmington beforehand. My sometime companion was coming, and it occurred to me, as I waited for her in the pub, that I'd never mentioned I was booking it! I'd just messaged her to ask whether she'd be there in time to eat when she messaged me, wanting to know whether I'd booked the regular place. Well, she arrived in due course. I was starving, so asked for bread and butter while I was waiting.. they do sourdough. I swear though, I'd been there for 40 minutes - and she'd long arrived - by the time it came - what were they doing, baking it from scratch?! Damn tasteless bread, too. They do a decent steak here, so I had that - it came without a steak knife, and it took me some time to find the waiter to ask for one! A bit tasteless without the sauce, but it was lovely with, as were the fries. Unfortunately, it'd been another 20 ...

Yester day, third day in a row of Meetups , I was back with London Museums from A-Z (LoMAZ) for the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration , which only opened on the 5th! I did get to bed early enough to have a decent night's sleep.. was ever so slightly late to meet the group in the cafe at the centre. Where there was a massive queue. Which I joined, being hungry. Had plenty of time to peruse the menu. Chose a ham & cheese toastie, and a hot chocolate, and was given a number, which I took with me to the table. The hot chocolate came in due course - and was surprisingly good! No offence intended, I'm picky about hot chocolates. I tell you though, I was in serious doubt that my toastie would arrive in time for me to eat it before we had to go in. It did - just.. I must have been waiting at least 20 minutes for it. Dripping with cheese, it was ever so slightly messy, but oh so good.. When we headed off, we were advised to go to the downstairs gallery first, which was less c...

The second of three days of Meetup , o n Saturday, I was back with Laurence Summers and the 45+ Not Grumpies - very glad to see that the issue with Meetup that required payment on signing up to an event has been fixed.. The tour was Wonders of the National Gallery . Ah, but it was hard to drag myself up, after the night before .. I did though, and set off in brilliant sunshine. I was supposed to take two buses, changing on Strand to get one to take me the length of the street. I was ultimately joined by a whole group of people.. I was quite early, but when I'd been there for nearly half an hour, I said sod it and walked. Any bus would have done, but there wasn't a single bus headed in that direction! No mention of problems on TFL either. Well, I still arrived early.. and actually, most of the group were a little late, what with Tube problems as well. He always waits for a while for latecomers though, and as we waited, we listened to the strains of a classical music conce...