A couple of weekends ago, I skipped out of work slightly early and caught the 17:30 to Glasgow. ChrisC spotted, months ago, that there were cheap tickets on one of the Virgin West Coast lightning sales, and we thought hey, why not? Glasgow is, after all, one of the biggest cities in the UK and neither of us really knows it.

( ...when I called you last night from Glasgow )

On Sunday last weekend, we used up a Groupon thingy which was in danger of expiring, and took ourselves to the London Motor Museum. It's kind of localish, being in Hayes, and a very simple train ride away (and a slightly more complicated walk back along a canal and through some parks and some shopping streets and so on, but that was optional. The ( Read more... )

Over the bank holiday weekend, we headed off on Sunday to visit the Battle of Britain Bunker. Because it is, like, practically on my doorstep. Having kept the Bunker completely secret all through WWII, while it was the home of Fighter Command 11 Group, they seem to have lost the knack of telling people where it is. However! During weekends this ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I bumped into philipstorry and we scooped snow_leopard off her train for a day of wombling round museums. Our principal purpose was to go to the Man Ray exhibition at the National Potrait Gallery.

( Black and white )

Last Friday, I skated quickly into London after work to go to the Natural History Museum. frax had spotted an interesting-looking event, a "Crime Scene Live" evening which seemed pretty much directed at role-players (a fact somewhat bolstered by falling over metame in the queue, then running into leathellin waiting for lanfykins before we'd even managed to get our own party ( Read more... )

I've been wandering in London again. Mostly in Greenwich, where I was delighted to discover that the Observatory is free. Maybe it's some kind of reward for people who manage to walk all the way up the hill to get there ( Read more... )