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The Quiet Weekend

Well the weekend was nice and quiet. I did some decorating in my bedroom and ironed everything I own… I need to buy more wrinkle-free items I think! On Sunday morning, 11 November I went down to a Church of England which combines a parish from Bow and one from Mile End for their Remembrance Day service. The service was good and the church was interesting too. It is an historic Church and has many visitors throughout the week who come to look at the building itself and the ancient headstones in it’s grounds. Remembrance Day is especially remembered in my family too as it was my late Grandpa Walton’s birthday – he would have turned 91 this year.

For something different, come Sunday evening I was heading into Stratford again, as the light globes I bought on Saturday were the wrong type (everything over here seems to be bayonet-style) and so I walked up the street, waited at the bus stop, jumped on the S2 to Stratford…. and ended up in Hackney (bad place to end up in!). I don’t know what the bloody bus driver was doing, but I’m pretty sure the sign on the bus must have been changed after I jumped on (I did see him fiddle with it), because the bus, from that stop, should have really gone to Stratford as the exact same bus from the same stop did on the Saturday… bizarre! Anyway because it was already nearly 5pm, I didbn’t bother trying to get back to Stratford, but instead walked around a bit of Hackney and got a bus back to Bromley-by-Bow, where I jumped on the tube to go and meet up with Mara and Doug, her friend who was visiting from Canada. We met up in Leicester Square, where some starts (ala Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins etc) were all there on the red carpet for the opening of Beowulf, a scary looking movie which I will not be seeing!

After grabbing a bite to eat (overpriced in Leicester Square… don’t eat there again unless in China Town part), we headed up to The Hen & Chickens Theatre near Islington to see Slap, Tickle & Squeak. An improv. comedy by three people, one of which is Cath whom I work with at the Olympics! The show was in a proper little Theatre above a nice cozy pub, and it was a great laugh! I’ve seen them perform twice now, and it’s never the same thing and it always good. The whole audience gets involved and has a good laugh which is important especially in London!



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