London Still Rocks!

Today, storytelling from the  Crick Crack Club !  Ben Haggarty  and  Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson  were to perform  Stories in the Dark  at the  Richmond Lending Library . Sold out well in advance, I believe. It's too far to depend on buses. In fact, it's too far even to depend on the Tube the whole way - the only way there in under an hour was to get the Jubilee Line to Waterloo , then a train to Richmond . After a lovely, long, much-needed lie-in, I just managed to squeeze out the last blog post before I left, yay! And it's just as well I wasn't depending on a bus to take me to London Bridge to catch the Tube - because, as I was walking there, not a single one passed me that I could have taken. Got to Waterloo - too late for the train that would have gotten me to the library at 4.15, as instructed.. but I carefully read the emails they sent, and it seemed the show wouldn't start until 4.30. Plus they tend to start late. So I hadn't given up hope j...

Tonight, the start of another run of   Meetups   - finally back with  Up in the Cheap Seats  (UITCS) for  The Shark is Broken , at  Richmond Theatre . A comedy about the making of  Jaws .. how could I resist?! I was perturbed, mind you, to see that the "cheap" seats in the Stalls involve an automatic VIP experience booking, with champagne and such! Huh - I went for the next price level up, in the rear Stalls, thus paying much less.. Booked for the  Buenos Aires Steakhouse , across the road, for beforehand.. At least being in the office meant I was halfway there - so I managed to get there by Tube in about an hour. Few enough people were actually travelling that far west - by the time we got to Gunnersbury , the train was practically empty! We slowed down coming in to Richmond , as usual - and so I was slightly late for my restaurant booking. Mind you, I was grateful to Google Maps for telling me about this place - down a backstreet, I'd nev...