The plan for Friday was that I would meet The Missus after work and together we would pick up her friends little boy as we were babysitting him over part of the weekend. We arranged for the pick up to be in South Kensington as we planned to take him to an exhibition at the Natural History Museum which opens late on Fridays. We met and picked up the ( Read more... )

On the way to meet friends over the weekend I popped into the Royal Geographical Society building in Kensington. The exhibition I was hoping to catch was not there but instead was an exhibition on the history of internationalism (which wasn't as dry as it sounds). The exhibition showed internationalism as a political movement, sometimes in a ( Read more... )

One of the big differences between living for a long time in a small town and living (for any amount of time) in a big city is the networks of community that surround us. When I left my hometown there were people that I knew from school, people that I knew from college, people that I knew from work, people that I had met through hobbies/interests, ( Read more... )

As an unexpected treat yesterday livened up by journey home. The cast of the 'Fawlty Towers Dining Experience' (Part meal, part interactive theatre as patrons eat in a simulation of the Fawlty Towers hotel while look-a-like actors play out the characters from the comedy show) had taken over one of the carriages on the Bakerloo line turning it into ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I registered myself with a GP near to where I live (which is the final part of the process of the home move I completed earlier this year). I am actually a little sad to leave my last surgery as the facilities there were excellent and the staff very good ( Read more... )

It's back again to Kew Gardens for the Christmas Lights festival thing. I have been to this now every year since it started and am compelled to go now as for me and the missus this was the occasion two years ago than helped transition us from 'hanging out together outside of work' to 'dating' (so an important landmark in our social calendar ( Read more... )

Slightly later than usual, my Xmas season has kicked off. It usually starts with my friend Jacqui's birthday in mid-November but I didn't see her this year as she was away in Antwerp of all places. This year I decorated the flat as a 'surprise' for The Missus. (It had to be early as I had to do it on the weekend she was in work and before she got ( Read more... )

On Sunday it was back to Kew with the missus for our first visit in months. We were both looking forward to seeing the place in its full Autumn glory but sadly we seemed to have missed the boat this year. There was still plenty to see and Kew is always a treat but most of the leaves had already fallen across the bulk of the park. I'm sure that is ( Read more... )

I went last night to see the 25th anniversary screening of Jurassic Park at the Prince Charles Cinema. I went with the missus (who hates both scary movies in general and dinosaurs in particular) her adult daughter and her newly minted fiancé. The daughter has always loved dinosaurs and Jurassic Park has been a firm favourite for years. Weirdly none ( Read more... )

Part two of the Northampton weekend was spent visiting 'The Mackintosh House' at 78 Derngate (in Northampton). The house was owned by a forward looking local businessman who hired the Scottish artist and architect to design the interior of his home for him and the results (some more pleasing than others) arguably invented art-deco decades before ( Read more... )