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Southwark Hysteries Solstice Special walk, Play: Reel Life, & Work Summer Party

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O n Sunday - I was thinking of heading to see West End Live , the free performance snippets of West End shows, performed in Trafalgar Square .. always a good one! But then, on what was a very busy day for Meetup organisers, London Museums A-Z (LoMAZ) organised a guided walk! And as it was around my area, I could hardly resist - we were to meet in Starbucks before heading off on a Southwark Hysteries Solstice Special walk, as presented by Herstorical Tours , in the person of someone who gloried in the name of Lydia Chlamydia, and was a whore of Ancient Rome .. and Camilla did such a good job of selling it at the   Quentin Blake event that she got a good few more takers. I live not that far away - I could walk there. And miracle #3 of the weekend was that the sign I'd brought specifically for her, from Hever, the day before , as freshly laminated by Jonny, made it to Starbucks safely and was delivered! Not straight away though - I was early. Saw toasties and thought that...

Film: Disclosure Day & Hever Castle and Gardens

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From Friday was supposed to be three more days of Meetup - that day, I booked with The Hideout for Disclosure Day , in which Emily Blunt plays a TV weather forecaster who suddenly finds herself communicating in a strange, clicking language, which only Josh O' Connor finds he can understand. Colin Firth seems to play a bad guy, as per the trailer. Directed by Spielberg again.. Now, when details were finally announced, it was in the Odeon Leicester Square , fair enough - but at 3.45pm?!! Talk about not catering to people with office jobs! So, four of us cancelled our attendance on foot of that - and decided to head, together, to the much more sensible 7.30pm showing in the same cinema! And for anyone that wants to join me, as I said, I booked for Bella Italia beforehand. The bus drive in was a jolting one, the driver leaning sharply on the brakes - that's happening a lot these days. And the bus was a bit delayed - so I was a little late for the restaurant. One p...