Friday 22 February 2008
Thursday 21 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty-Nine - Vandon Passage, SW1
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty-Eight - Bennett's Hill, Birmingham B5
Another meeting in Birmingham, another chance to sample the beers in The Wellington. And this time I had pig snacks, too.
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Monday 18 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty-Seven - Wilton Road, SW1
Came out of the station via Boots and so passed the front of the Apollo Victoria Theatre before crossing the road towards work. In the ten years I've been working around here there haven't been many productions on at this place: Wicked, a short-lived Bollywood musical (Bombay Dreams, I just looked it up), some ghastly Saturday Night Fever thing, Starlight Express, and Movin' Out, the Billy Joel musical. Will took a Joel-loving friend to that as a birthday present. Apparently they were hoping for a We Will Rock You-style romp through Billy's biggest hits, but they didn't count on Mr Joel's huge sense of self importance leading to him getting Twyla Tharp in to make it a modern dance extravaganza. How I laughed when I was told about it.
I'm not a musicals fan (although I was dragged along to Les Miserables and thought it mah-vellous) but Sheila-who-must-be-obeyed certainly is, to the extent that she's seen Wicked three times. I would have liked to see the place in it's original incarnation, a huge art deco cinema.
Friday 15 February 2008
Thursday 14 February 2008
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty-Four - Leicester Square, WC2
"Up West" (as they say) to see Sweeney Todd (very slow getting going, nicely gory later on) I get caught up in the crowds waiting to gawp at the stars of The Accidental Husband, a film which I predict that no-one who has the misfortune to see will remember for more than half an hour afterwards.
Tuesday 12 February 2008
Monday 11 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty-Two - Victoria Street, SW1
Friday 8 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty-One - Anerley Road, SE19
I've gone in to "Simply Food and Wines" at least once a week for six years, supporting my local shopkeepers and not going to the Tesco Local up the road, and they've spoken to me twice:
- once to ask me if the plaster cast that'd been on my arm for two weeks was as a result of the tube bombings that had happened the day before; and
- once to compliment me on my beard.
Thursday 7 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Thirty - Campden Hill Road, W8
In the "here be dragons" (as far as I'm concerned) environs of Notting Hill for a bit of a crawl with the legend that is Lorkin, we stumble upon Mr Jeff Lynne's wheels. Nice.
Wednesday 6 February 2008
Day One Hundred and Twenty-Nine - Mowbray Road, SE19
A lavatory cistern joins the christmas tree and mattress as stuff people just chuck in the road round here.
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Monday 4 February 2008
Friday 1 February 2008
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