London Still Rocks!

Tonight, back with  Up in the Cheap Seats  (UITCS) to see  Heart Wall , a drama about a woman returning to a home where she no longer feels she belongs. Karaoke begins 15 minutes before the show, and audience participation is welcome. Showing in the  Bush Theatre . Problem is, there's a  Tube strike , so getting there promised to be tricky.. Google Maps said I could get there by buses in an hour and a half - assuming they weren't too packed to board, and assuming the traffic wasn't crazy. If it was too bad, I'd just have had to cancel. As it was, I had to leave early. I was getting peckish as I prepared to leave, so popped into the shop first for a snack, which I took with me. Wouldn't you know it, the bus arrived shortly after I did! I ate my snack pretty quickly. I was impressed with the progress we made, mind - not much traffic, and the bus not too crowded either. I then had to change buses - contrary to predictions, the second one didn't take too long - a...

These two days are something of a Meetup extravaganza. Tonight, I was back with  Up in the Cheap Seats  for  Miss Myrtle's Garden , at the  Bush Theatre . Eating beforehand at  Shikumen  Chinese restaurant. I was delighted to get a text from the theatre this afternoon, with a link to my ticket - so handy.. A long journey, it'd have to be Tube if I wanted to get there in under an hour. Mind you, no danger of me working late - Fridays are known in the company as "patch Friday"s, because that's when they do a bunch of software patches. Which, of course, sometimes banjax the software.. and that's exactly what happened to me; starting at some time around 4.30pm, every time I tried to open a file to work on it, it crashed the software. I submitted a fix request to IT, nearly 5pm on the first day of our company's "summertime" allowance, where they give us an hour off, and legged it, knowing full well that no-one would see to it this evening anyway. W...