After not having set foot in London since before Christmas we went up twice this week. The first visit was to see Durer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist at the National Gallery.

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We were so saddened to hear of the death of Stephen Sondheim. Apart from Shakespeare he is the person whose works I have seen most often in the theatre, which seems fitting somehow. I have seen many, many different performances and I definitely like some of his musicals more than others, but I don't think I've ever seen anything less than utterly ( Read more... )

I did my Paracise class this morning then went out to get a birthday card for a friend at a local card shop, which is the first time I've been in a shop that wasn't a food shop or a pharmacy since March. I would have sent a card I already had but I thought the card shop might need the business. Apart from people wearing masks our local shopping ( Read more... )

The world stays mad, bad and sad but in our own little bubble there is nothing much new to report apart from the fact that I managed to get a Waitrose delivery yesterday. I thought I was hallucinating last week when I saw they had some delivery slots available but very quickly booked one. I did have some guilty moments when I wondered if I was ( Read more... )

I've already written about the British Museum's exhibition Troy: Myth and Reality so I'll just add some (very bad) photos below the cut.

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We've had a busy couple of days going to two exhibitions but I'll save the second one for another entry. Prompted by kazzy_cee's post about it and my brother saying it was "worth seeing" (this is the equivalent of a five star rave review from him) I finally managed to galvanise myself to book tickets for Tutankhamum: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh on ( Read more... )

The weather is unremittingly foul at the moment so I thought I would share what we were doing this time last year again. On this exact week last year we went to Amsterdam for a few days. We very carefully avoided the British half term only to hit the Dutch one which meant that when I went online, several weeks before we were due to travel, to book ( Read more... )

Much to my surprise and shock our new router turned up on Wednesday so yesterday we set it up. All seemed fine, lots of green lights, excellent broadband coverage but when I tried to connect to the internet absolutely no joy! We tried various different permutations of sockets, locations and cables, turned it off and turned it on again, swore a lot ( Read more... )

We've just been to the Destinations travel show and are about to go out again so this is all written in a bit of a dash.

For some reason J gets sent free tickets to the Destinations travel show and we've been a couple of times and picked up some useful brochures. Today was the only day we could go so we thought we'd make the effort even though we' ( Read more... )

I am doing very well with artistic outings at the moment as on Wednesday kazzy_cee invited me to go with her to the Rembrandt’s Light exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. She was originally supposed to be going with lilachigh but as lilachigh couldn’t make it I got to go instead and was very grateful as it was a very interesting exhibition.

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