London Still Rocks!

Yesterday, third Meetup in a row , I was with  Movie Roadhouse London , at  The History of Sound , starring  Paul Mescal  and  Josh O' Connor  as two young  Americans  travelling around and collecting folk music in the early years of the 20th century. Showing at the  Barbican , and the organiser wisely suggested we meet at the cafe on  Beech Street  - that building is a maze! (Funnily enough, on Saturday , when I mentioned this, some people thought I'd said " Ministry of Sound "..) Google Maps threw a hissy fit, telling me how to get there - gave me several options involving catching the #47 and changing, then one taking the #47 direct - only to strike through that option.. and seemed to say my bus stop was closed, and the service cancelled! (Or at least I think so - it's hard to tell, they never specify which stop they're talking about.) The #381 , on the other hand, which stops at the same place and runs the same route for a w...

Last night , back with  Movie Roadhouse London  at  The Garden Cinema  (complete with member's discount) for a mystery called  Islands , set in the  Canaries . We were eating in  Caravan  beforehand - had never heard of it, but as the organiser is how I found out about the Toulouse Lautrec , I was happy to give it a shot! I was in the office yesterday. Have no idea what's happened to the traffic - it was terrible as I got the bus in in the morning! I wasn't that much later, in the end - but I was glad that the evening's destination was a short walk from the office, no bus required. And I made it just about the time we'd agreed - he was there with one other. Unsure whether anyone else would be joining, we ordered - in the event, two more arrived, one having just a main (lamb) and dessert, the other just dessert (both tiramisu - in fact, three portions of it were ordered). They'd also asked whether we wanted everything as it came - which meant we g...