London Still Rocks!

This weekend, I'm finally back with Meetup - yesterday, it was third time lucky for the London Sci-Fi / Fantasy Meetup Group , who had their social cancelled twice by the Mad Hatter for the World Cup ! Yes, they still had it there.. It's not too far from me, but a little far to walk.. my road is still ripped up so they can fix a burst water main, and sadly is going to stay like that for another week or so.. so I walked to further down, where I could catch a bus . Everyone else evidently had the same idea.. nobody at the intervening stops, but when I got to the stop I needed, there was a huge crowd. A bad sign, if so many people had gathered.. they must have been waiting a while. I tried to check the bus status on Buses Due .. they were "experiencing issues", as happens so often. So I gave up on the bus, and checked the Tube - would you believe, it was experiencing severe delays because of yet another points failure! Again, that's happening a lot these days - m...

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...