London Still Rocks!

Today , New Year's Day, they decided to screen a couple of new films - the higher rated of which was One Life ! Stars  Anthony Hopkins  as the (older version of the) real-life  Nicholas Winton , who organised  Kindertransport  from Czechoslovakia , before the German invasion (something I can't imagine being allowed to happen these days, with the UK so  anti-refugees ). Lena Olin plays his wife. Also stars  Helena Bonham Carter  as his  mother , in flashbacks . I had to go to the  Odeon  for a decent showing time, though, but at least that meant I'd avoid city centre traffic! Handy I checked Tesco opening times before I left - we needed a few things, and most weren't open. There was an open one on my route, so that was OK. And it was such a luxury, not to be stuck for half an hour in traffic - also, going that way, I passed Certa petrol station , which turned out to have absolutely the cheapest petrol I've seen in ages! I made a m...

On Wednesday, I booked with  Barrie  again, for his  Mile End  walk - with TAC, to save a few quid. He does require a top-up, if booked that way, but I had the cash. Got there in plenty of time, happily. Saw someone from Laurence 's walks on this one as well - but he completely blanked me, so that was that. We started with the name - apparently, the area is a mile from where the old Roman wall was. In a bit, o ur first stop was also to be our longest; we were in Tower Hamlets Cemetery , one of the " magnificent seven " London cemeteries. And no sooner had we gone in, and Barrie started to talk, than the caretaker - or whatever - nipped keenly out of his lodge to give his tuppence worth! My goodness, he had a lot to say, too - was yelling it after us as we departed. But it was very interesting, can't deny. Seems the cemetery is now primarily a nature reserve. Still, it did delay us a bit. Around the back, we passed some expensive apartment blocks - as he remarked, it...