London Still Rocks!

The second of three days of Meetup , o n Saturday, I was back with Laurence Summers and the 45+ Not Grumpies - very glad to see that the issue with Meetup that required payment on signing up to an event has been fixed.. The tour was Wonders of the National Gallery . Ah, but it was hard to drag myself up, after the night before .. I did though, and set off in brilliant sunshine. I was supposed to take two buses, changing on Strand to get one to take me the length of the street. I was ultimately joined by a whole group of people.. I was quite early, but when I'd been there for nearly half an hour, I said sod it and walked. Any bus would have done, but there wasn't a single bus headed in that direction! No mention of problems on TFL either. Well, I still arrived early.. and actually, most of the group were a little late, what with Tube problems as well. He always waits for a while for latecomers though, and as we waited, we listened to the strains of a classical music conce...

Tonight, back at last with the  London Classical Music and Theatre Group , for  Mahler's Resurrection , at the  Royal Festival Hall . My sometime companion from  Up in the Cheap Seats  wanted a suggestion for something for the afternoon, though - so we also booked for an  organ recital , at the same venue beforehand. She messaged me when she got there, nearly an hour early - she'd positioned herself in The Archduke , for their live music. Unfortunately, the bus I got on ended up stopped in one of those really sluggish runs of traffic - I was going to be another half hour, as I said, there was no point in my coming there. Instead, when I arrived - hungry - I made for the Southbank Centre's food fair , on today, where as soon as I saw someone advertising chicken katsu curry, I was hooked. Didn't take long for me to be served and eat - whereupon I checked my phone, saw she was in the concert hall, and joined her there. With plenty of space, the guy beside me ...