It's been more or less chucking it down all day. There was a point at which it seemed to be easing off a bit so I thought, if it's like this, me and my umbrella (I'm such a stereotype of the Englishwoman) can easily walk to the Musee des Beaux Arts.
And just a short way along the way it starting throwing it down, great rivers running across the ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I've seen this around before.
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Another television drama I have no desire to watch
Presumably somewhere out there are people writing serious contemporary dramas that do not feature the maiming and murder of women. Good luck to them, you have to say, because what chance does their work stand of ever seeing the green light of commission ( Read more... )

Dept of Life in the Old Dame Yet: there were 2 other people on this pm's walk, including one much younger than moi, and nonetheless we were level-pegging the entire distance. Though, further reflection:

Dept of These Kids Today: I can just about see taking your mobile on a lovely guided walk, just in case you get lost; but checking your messages en ( Read more... )

I've wandered around the peripheries and mentioned particular places, but I don't think I've really done Covent Garden yet. I don't think I ever visited it during its fruit, veg and flowers heyday, before these activities moved south of the river to Nine Elms.

However, people are still selling things there, from branches of numerous chains in the ( Read more... )

In Victorian times, Turkish baths proliferated in London.

My attention was drawn to this topic by a local council poster announced the re-opening of Ironmonger Road Baths.

These, like the other surviving Turkish bath establishments in London, the Porchester Baths and the Old Ford Baths, are interwar establishments (municipal improvements) rather ( Read more... )

Sunk into gloom by reading the following:

Lucy Mangan on Hot in Cleveland: 'a sitcom built round the premise of female obsolescence. Past 40, our invisibility to men turns us into desperate nymphomaniacs, whereupon hilarity must naturally ensue. Please sprinkle "apparently" throughout that last sentence as you see fit'.

Rowenna Davis talks to ( Read more... )

Five questions from frankie_ecap:

(1) ( How did you and partner meet and how did you know he was the one? )

Yesterday I did the decadent steambath and plunge before breakfast thing- partly because I had facial scheduled for midmorning.

Facial - beautifully relaxing - included back massage and hand and arm massage, lovely.

Was only person on afternoon walk, got round in brisk time, in spite of slight rain and conversation with the trainer, who commented ( Read more... )

Got up and did the power walk again this morning, because a) I had a treatment scheduled rather too close to the usual return time of the pm walk, that couldn't be altered, and b) weather forecast was for rain, and it wasn't actually raining first thing. I was totally tail-end Charlie this time - though except right at the end where they turned ( Read more... )