London Still Rocks!

On Sunday morning, the breakfast room (aka restaurant) displayed traces of the previous night 's 40th birthday party: My full Scottish came with white toast this time, as requested.. and I didn't have the appetite for it! (Forgot to mention, hallelujah, they serve proper sausages here - I cannot abide English ones. Anyway.) I didn't seem to have much of an appetite for it all on this morning. Ah well. The large table was fuller of Liverpudlians than the night before, and again the banter was good.. With the hotel so full the night before, and most people having had breakfast already, they were almost out of cold drinks.. I had a glass of milk. When we'd both checked out, we headed out on a mission of JW 's.. he had family history in the area, and wanted to check the Parish Church kirkyard for the grave of a couple of ancestors. It was far enough to take the car - plus, was on the way to the airport. We parked across the road. You enter via the section that houses...

On Friday, flew to Aberdeen for another London Museums A-Z (LoMAZ) Dracula event, yay! The UK air traffic control crash  caused us some angst.. thank goodness it happened early enough that the chaos had ended by then. Mostly. An early flight from Heathrow is an unpleasant thing to be doing, and I hardly got any sleep. Was out of the house just after 5.. took the Tube to intersect with the Elizabeth Line . Mind you, it wasn't until  JW  pointed it out that I realised it was the 25th anniversary of 9/11 ! No seats on the Lizzie Line, even at 6am, until I was nearly there. He'd slept in the airport .. and when he eventually found me, we moseyed down to the gate.. where the plane was delayed. But not by much. I got some sleep on the plane - until the guy beside me kicked me as he was getting back into his seat. Lotsa wind turbines just off the coast of Aberdeen.. well, as it was an internal UK flight, there was no passport control, and as we had only hand luggage, we wer...