London Still Rocks!

I'm finally back on an overdue trip to Ireland for the weekend - first in two months..! (And it's looking likely to be something the same before I'm back again.) One thing I do miss about these trips is the downtime during the flight - no internet, just fluffy clouds out the window for an hour or so.. time to sleep, or on this occasion, to get almost half of my work's book club book read!  Arranged to have lunch with my friend from there today, in   Jade Cottage   as usual.. beat him there this time (only just, as he pointed out), and we had the lunch menu. I decided to try the satay for once, for my main course - I love the General Tso's Chicken, but it always defeats me, and the szechuan is too hot for me. My friend had that, with a satay starter, out of curiosity since I was having it. My starter was the chicken spring rolls, as usual - they're so tender. So, with chicken in each of those dishes, as I remarked, many chickens died in service of this meal.. An...

For today,  Sinners  was showing mid-afternoon, finally, in the  Vue ! Well, about time.. It's  a very highly rated vampire film set in the world of gangsters and speakeasys.. and the rating has been rising! Indeed, The Hideout and Movie Roadhouse London (MRL) went to see it yesterday in London, and of 17 ratings, not one was under 7/10.. As they say, the Devil has the best music.. I booked, as it's cheaper. Now, all I had to do was find the place - I'd never been there before! Raced out the door after completing the usual chores - most of which were landed on me by my mother at the last minute. Unsure how to get there, I looked up Google Maps - and, for the first time, used their satnav feature - I hadn't even realised they had one! Wow, how handy was that.. I ended up getting there with no problem at all, and the AI-generated female voice led me past the toll roads and everything. I made the cinema with some minutes to spare - then squandered them, and then some...