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Am rather full and rather tipsy but VERY happy so that's alright then (best beloved, do you see) (first to get that reference wins... my everastig respct? IDK)
I've had a rather lovely day despite Transport for London's best efforts to cause chaos and confusion at every turn. IN FACT their insistence on shutting every other underground line meant Mum and I wandered from Covent Garden down to the National Theatre across Waterloo Bridge which I have;t walked across in... well I can't actually remember ever walking across it. It's a BEAUTIFUL view. Possibly even better than Blackfriars or the Blade of Light because you can see right up to St Pauls etc. but you aso get a gorgeous view of the Houses of Parliment.
So that was nice *g*
Then we went to the Natioal Theatre Terace restaurant for one of their new "Caberet" things. John Standing doing songs by and stories about Noel Coward. He started by saying the whole of I Went to a Mrvellous Party which really let you register the words <3 other high spot included the final verse of Mrs Worthington which I've never heard and which is vicious; the fact that there is a Noel Coward song that includes my surname (obv. I'm not going to say hear but Mum and I both got the giggles); a rather beautiful rendition of the song from Private Lives; a very funny story about when Clark Gable sent him to meet Frank Sinatra.... and whilst we're on name-dropping songs John Standing met Noel Coward several times but I think my favourite story had to be the one in which he said they were off to a Noel Coward show and his mother was looking especially pretty and then "Errol Flynn made a move on her".... *g*
So that was all rather lovely. It was noticeable however that I was the youngest in the audience by about 10-15 years... do people not like Noel Coward anymore? If you don't your all crazy!
Mum nd I then pottered along through Gabriels Wharf and admired entirely unaffordable pretty things and then looked round the exhibition at the Gallery@Oxo which was stunning and THEN looked round some of the Oxo Tower shops and I have a beautiful new brooch which is a little fishtank with two fish in it and a cat's head peering over the top *g* plus present for a couple of others and something I absoutely didn't see being bought *g*
AND THEN we had my birthday dinner, Mum, my brother and I, which was only 5 months late *g*
I do adore the Oxo Tower for its location and for... oh I don't know I just love it and have wanted to live in one of the flats since I was 5 or 6 when I first saw the building so eating at the restaurant is the closest I'll ever get and this makes it twice in my life because it is VERY much a treat but oh ♥
I started with a Cosmopolitan which was just perfect and the scent of orange especially was beautiful and then I had slow cooked Partridge wich I'd never had before followed by a main of Beef and Mashed Potato and Creamed Garlic (the cream being solider than the potato...) with a rather wonderful red wine and then I had a selection of sorbets (Peach, Pineapple and Plum) with a glas of Beaumes de Venise dessert wine which is absolutely a favourite luxury of mine. All fiished off with a very nice coffee.
Then the three of us rolled along to London Bridge and dodged vampires and serial killers and pirates and ghosts to make our way home.
I've had a rather lovely day despite Transport for London's best efforts to cause chaos and confusion at every turn. IN FACT their insistence on shutting every other underground line meant Mum and I wandered from Covent Garden down to the National Theatre across Waterloo Bridge which I have;t walked across in... well I can't actually remember ever walking across it. It's a BEAUTIFUL view. Possibly even better than Blackfriars or the Blade of Light because you can see right up to St Pauls etc. but you aso get a gorgeous view of the Houses of Parliment.
So that was nice *g*
Then we went to the Natioal Theatre Terace restaurant for one of their new "Caberet" things. John Standing doing songs by and stories about Noel Coward. He started by saying the whole of I Went to a Mrvellous Party which really let you register the words <3 other high spot included the final verse of Mrs Worthington which I've never heard and which is vicious; the fact that there is a Noel Coward song that includes my surname (obv. I'm not going to say hear but Mum and I both got the giggles); a rather beautiful rendition of the song from Private Lives; a very funny story about when Clark Gable sent him to meet Frank Sinatra.... and whilst we're on name-dropping songs John Standing met Noel Coward several times but I think my favourite story had to be the one in which he said they were off to a Noel Coward show and his mother was looking especially pretty and then "Errol Flynn made a move on her".... *g*
So that was all rather lovely. It was noticeable however that I was the youngest in the audience by about 10-15 years... do people not like Noel Coward anymore? If you don't your all crazy!
Mum nd I then pottered along through Gabriels Wharf and admired entirely unaffordable pretty things and then looked round the exhibition at the Gallery@Oxo which was stunning and THEN looked round some of the Oxo Tower shops and I have a beautiful new brooch which is a little fishtank with two fish in it and a cat's head peering over the top *g* plus present for a couple of others and something I absoutely didn't see being bought *g*
AND THEN we had my birthday dinner, Mum, my brother and I, which was only 5 months late *g*
I do adore the Oxo Tower for its location and for... oh I don't know I just love it and have wanted to live in one of the flats since I was 5 or 6 when I first saw the building so eating at the restaurant is the closest I'll ever get and this makes it twice in my life because it is VERY much a treat but oh ♥
I started with a Cosmopolitan which was just perfect and the scent of orange especially was beautiful and then I had slow cooked Partridge wich I'd never had before followed by a main of Beef and Mashed Potato and Creamed Garlic (the cream being solider than the potato...) with a rather wonderful red wine and then I had a selection of sorbets (Peach, Pineapple and Plum) with a glas of Beaumes de Venise dessert wine which is absolutely a favourite luxury of mine. All fiished off with a very nice coffee.
Then the three of us rolled along to London Bridge and dodged vampires and serial killers and pirates and ghosts to make our way home.