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Concert: Norwegian Seasons

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T onight, I went to The Liberal Club , of all places, to the David Lloyd George room, where they hold all their public events, for a piano concert called Norwegian Seasons. Fun thing is, CT made sure to warn me that it was formal dress.. but I checked online, and both the club website, and AI, agreed that it's smart casual! Well, that meant I shouldn't have to go and buy an evening dress.. if they threw me out, I was ready! Actually left half an hour later than I'd intended - I mistook the time I'd decided on. Which means I overworked - which is nice, I can compensate for that later. Plus, I needed to put the time in. Anyway, under the circumstances, I decided The Sun Wharf would be wiser to eat in - quicker service, I'd be out faster. Took a bus down there - the usual chaos of buggies, but handily enough, with the maximum of two in the buggy area, as another went to get on, both of those came off. In the pub, I saw one cramped free table, but figured I'd find...
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Concert: In Sweet Music is Such Art

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Currently in the middle of three days of music with CT, the first two of which are classical music. Last night, I was in Conway Hall for their Sunday concerts - on this occasion, it was a choral concert entitled In Sweet Music is Such Art . It was pretty last-minute when I decided to eat in the nearby Pizza Express . I'd never been there before - traffic was bad, so since I was coming by bus , I arrived 5 minutes late, and took a cosy table in the corner - it wasn't busy. When the server came over, she started talking as though I was a regular, said my regular waiter wasn't there, and he knew my wine order, but she didn't.. when I said I'd never been in this branch before, she apologised and said she'd obviously mistaken me for someone else! Anyway, the food was good.. but service is quite slow here, in comparison with other locations - it took a while to give my order, and when I wanted a second glass of wine, I was going to ask for it when my pizza came, but ...
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Storytelling: The Luck Child & Other Strange Tales, & Hallowe'en at Kew

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Yesterday was the last of three days of Meetup , and two days of London Museums A-Z (LoMAZ). It ran too late to blog on Friday , because yesterday afternoon,  I was hosting more storytelling, courtesy of the Crick Crack Club - this time it was Daniel Morden , who's telling The Luck Child & Other Strange Tales in Jacksons Lane . With messages flying back and forth about Friday, I was a little late leaving again - that far up, it had to be Tube , and to be fair, I arrived just a few minutes late - and first of the group. To be honest, only one other had signed up, and that a person who had been a no-show previously, so I was expecting to be on my own. Still, I wore the badge, and had the sign on a table. I got a glass of wine, and was drinking at the table when who should walk in but my sometime companion, who had signed up and then cancelled because she had been unsure she could make it! Well, make it she had, and I duly amended her RSVP - she ran to the loo, then had to run ...
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