London Still Rocks!

Yesterday, second day in a row with Meetup , I was back with London Social & Cultural Meetups for a screening of Metropolis at the Genesis Cinema - also advertised with the London European Club and Film, Art and History Matters . . I did manage to get myself up in time - in fact, quite early - and took a couple of buses there. Mind you, Google Maps had me going on one more stop, just so I could have stops that were more closely aligned on either side of the road (I had to head back the way I'd come, slightly). Ridiculous.. you can hardly ever cross the road exactly at the point you want anyway! The bus dropped me right outside the door of the cinema! ..which has a quirky piece of street art outside: ..as well as a list of all the films they're showing cheaply, as part of their birthday celebrations! Inside, I discovered a nice foyer, complete with seating area, socialist bookstall, coffee shop, and box office - and past the ticket check, a cinema counter selling all...

Last   night, I booked with TAC for an improv show called Fabled: The Improvised Fantasy Adventure , showing in The Free Association Theatre . Meant to eat beforehand, but really wanted to finish the blog - so I didn't leave early enough. Did pop into the Union Jack  (UJ), which is right next door to the theatre, but really only had time for a drink: They do like you to check in early, you see. Well, I headed off with little idea where this place was, exactly - but right beside the pub is a gated alleyway called Old Union Yard Arches - sounded right, despite Google Maps telling me it was further down Union Street . So I moseyed down there. It gets quite narrow after a bit, but persevere - there is a theatre right at the entrance to the yard, but the Free Association is past the narrow bit. There's a sign outside - but it doesn't really look like a theatre. I pushed the door, which opened - and uncertainly asked the guy at the desk.. and yes, that was it! He said he...

Last night, back with London Social & Cultural Meetups (LSC) for a talk at the LSE about Trump's Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective . Couldn't miss that.. also advertised with the London European Club (LEC). I was in the office, so could walk to our meeting point at Holborn Station - beside the hat stand, she said, and sure enough, that's where I found her. We stood and chatted for a while, waiting for the other attendees - one showed up after a bit,  the other was a no-show. In due course, we headed to the college - where we were directed to the entrance to the theatre, and our tickets were scanned. Ushers were on hand to seat us: Those without a ticket were seated once all ticketholders had arrived, and there were online participants from what sounded like all over the world, when the person monitoring those mentioned the list during the Q+A. And indeed, the whole thing was filmed, and the video is now available online . (No, they didn't catch us in shot...