Sadly, the weather, as of easing me in to my departure, remained on the cold and cloudy side, so I paid the Dickens museum a visit, where, as with the Tower, I hadn't been since I was 21. It is as a I dimly remembered a really well reconstructed Victorian house, and the three things which struck me most this time were ( Read more... )

Saturday brought back a dash of rain and even snow, but also lunch with
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Due to being in London, I won't be able to indulge in my annual pictorial admiration of our Franconian Easter Wells, but London at Easter isn't half bad a sight, either.:).


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Thursday was devoted to meeting friends and paying homage to gay geniuses (genii?) with tragic endings courtesy of the British penalty code. I also renewed my reader access at the British Library, which is ever so useful if you're into research in any way.

Meeting
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Yesterday I started my Easter time in London with the Manet exhibition at the Royal Academy, which was fabulous. I knew some of the paintings - the obvious suspects are there, like the "breakfast" that made Manet famous - but a lot were new to me, and also, the context of such an exhibition creates a new way of seeing them. For example, the ( Read more... )

I'll be in London for the Easter holidays, which will include the chance to see some great British dames - two on the stage (Judi Dench and Helen Mirren) and the rest in real life. :) *waves at
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Some photos from last week in England, because London, no matter how often one visits, is a glorious place.

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Back from England (as of yesterday evening), exhausted, but happy. It continued to be a theatre, books & meeting friends paradise, though not surprisingly, the weather changed (it changed back though before I left).

Playwise, I saw Terence Rattigan's last play, Cause Celebre, with Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack, and The School for Scandal ( Read more... )

Currently I'm definitely in Geek heaven. Arrived on Friday afternoon only to be greeted by London in sunshine, which is always nice though rarely the case, and proceeded to acquire mym coveted Much Ado ticket(s) for Saturday, about which later. I also went and watched Pygmalion on Friday evening, with Rupert Everett as Higgins, Kara Tointon as ( Read more... )

Yesterday
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