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Social, Dance: Flamenc-Oh!, & Film: Coyote Vs. ACME

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Last Tuesday, was thinking of cinema - coming up was, again, Coyote Vs. ACME , a partly animated comedy based on the roadrunner cartoons , in which Coyote sues ACME, whose products always blow up in his face. It's getting great reviews - nearest showing to me is in the Odeon Luxe Haymarket , and again I'd have to leave home quite early for it. But just on Monday, I was in touch with my friend James, first time in about a month - and we decided to meet on Tuesday evening in The Phoenix . As usual. With the buses delayed, I took the Tube , and made it a bit before him - the outside tables were full, to my surprise on a weekday! Mind you, we have never been here on a weekday before.. happily, despite a large standing crowd inside too, there were a few free tables, and I took one in the window. As he pointed out when he arrived, this was probably the after-work crowd, which should thin out. Which it did. He had his usual fish n chips, I had my usual steak - happy to report it's...
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Play: Who Killed Marilyn?

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Tonight, I was back with TAC to see Who Killed Marilyn? at the Emerald Theatre . Spoiler, this assumes it's the Mafia .. I just got emailed my ticket this afternoon. Yeah, wasn't enthused by eating options near there - so I decided to eat in The Sun Wharf . Which was lovely.. and where I caught up on the news from Drumcree , where the Orange Lodge has inexplicably been allowed to parade through Catholic areas again, after a 28-year ban. Except they haven't, because protestors have blocked the road. Eh, good to catch up on the news anyway, idiotic as it is.. A long wait for the bus then - but I was early - a walk across the bridge , and straight into the theatre and to the loo. Then to the bar, got a drink. Caveat - I didn't really notice until my second drink, but the drinks cost £2 more than the menu price here - it's a service charge, and compulsory. The wine is decent though. I was in Row H of the Stalls, which turns out to be in the rear section - which is s...
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Walk: Heavenly Heights of Hampstead (#2), Film: Bad Apples, & Exhibition: The Coming of Age

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On Saturday , the fifth of six Meetup days in a row, I was back at last with Laurence Summers and the 45+ Not Grumpies for a walk entitled Heavenly Heights of Hampstead . Had forgotten to pay him (as I always do in advance by bank transfer, it's handier), would you believe, I've had so much on! So it's as well he reminded me.. Tired after the night before, I really wasn't with the program that morning, as they say. It had to be Tube , but Northern Line instead of the Jubilee , which I more commonly get. Of course, force of habit made me enter via the Jubilee gates.. so I had a trek through the station to get to the Northern Line. And then I just took the first train to come - which didn't go to Hampstead! so I had to change. All the same, I arrived a wee bit early into brilliant sunshine, and spotted him across the road . Crossed, whereupon he explained we were actually starting where I'd just come from. So, back we went again. Ah, what a morning.. And I en...
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Film: Hope

This evening, fourth Meetup day of six, I was with The Hideout . It was supposed to be for Her Private Hell - a stylized, futuristic psychological thriller set in Tokyo , and starring Sophie Thatcher - but it seems there was, as so often, a distribution problem. So now, instead, we headed to Hope , a South Korean film (the most expensive ever made there, it seems) about a monster attack. Showing in Cineworld Leicester Square , and as usual, we were meeting in Victory House beforehand. I arrived slightly late - someone from the group, knowing my predilection for eating beforehand, asked, and I told him what time I was supposed to be there. I was there enough before him to get a starter - when he arrived, we ordered mains, and I did notice how much easier the rich tortellini go down with conversation! Pawel, the manager, was there this time.. and oh, how much quicker the service was.. as he said to me when I arrived and had been there a minute - "What's happening with the P...
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