London Still Rocks!

The weekend is all about  The Hideout , for the month that's in it! Yesterday, the first of four days of horror for me, we were on a field trip.. to  Shocktober ! Running at  Tully's Farm , it promised shows, scares, fairground rides.. a maze with zombies that chase you with chainsaws.. also food and drink. Sold out for yesterday, I heard, which saw content creators flood the place, apparently. We were taking a train from  Victoria  together - and as usual, I found  Uber  cheapest. We were to meet at the Wetherspoons at the station - and I was nearly blown over (literally) on the way, the wind was so strong. Traffic slowed to a crawl around Parliament Square , so I was about five minutes arriving - got there just after the organiser posted a message with the table numbers he'd secured, and said they were on the balcony, beside the "no children under 12 on the balcony" sign. Well, I was to discover that there were several "no children under 12 on the b...

Back in London - fortunately, considering I nearly crashed the car on the way to the airport ! I was so tired, I literally fell asleep at the wheel. A micro-sleep - I awoke before I crashed into the ditch. Did end up ripping a tyre to bits, driving over rocks - the guy who looks after it will be fixing it before I get back. Hopefully. At least the flight had better aircon, on the return journey. Anyway , yesterday marked the start of a six-day  Meetup  run, finally back with  Mandy Morrow , who's running a new type of event called  Rat-Arsed Tours ! (Historic walk and pub crawl, basically.) Tickets available from  Eventbrite , and it was starting in St. James. We were finally told to meet in The Clarence . And I only just beforehand realised I'd be in the office that day, and lugging my laptop.. uhh.. I could have left a little earlier, but was finishing something, so I didn't. I could walk there from the office though, so I did - and the laptop was fine, it was...