London and Leeds
Jul. 27th, 2004 11:27 amRight. I drove down to London on the Friday (uneventful), arriving after midnight after the usual jam at the Blackwall Tunnel. Saturday was nice and relaxed, with nothing much remarkable happening until we went over to Greenwich in the afternoon to see
sushidog (with rather fine new 'too)and
childeric (with rather fine hair, as usual). I was meaning to order a Burrito for my dinner, but absent-mindedly went for the enchiladas instead. No big deal - they were still excellent.
We walked back through Blackheath, with my guts griping a bit (something on Friday, I suspect - fast food poisoning makes you chuck, so it wasn't the Tex-Mex), but arrived safely.
Sunday was mainly occupied by a fascinating trip to Morris' Red house and Eltham Palace. Both are recommended. Unfortunately there was no sign in the former of George Bernard Shaw trapped under the wallpaper, but that was the only disappointment. The latter was quite spectacular, both for the old sections (Great Hall and sections of the walls and moat survive - abandoned by James VI, I think) and the new ones (1930s - the Courthauld family, complete with ring-tailed lemur). Immensely grand, and not at all ruined by being used by the Army Education Corps for fifty years. They took good care of it.
Then we had an early night and I got up at half-three to drive to Leeds. ( Read more... )
In other news, Eric's telling me a story about a man who gave himself a fatal electric shock via the genitals. Accidentally. I don't think I wanted to know.
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We walked back through Blackheath, with my guts griping a bit (something on Friday, I suspect - fast food poisoning makes you chuck, so it wasn't the Tex-Mex), but arrived safely.
Sunday was mainly occupied by a fascinating trip to Morris' Red house and Eltham Palace. Both are recommended. Unfortunately there was no sign in the former of George Bernard Shaw trapped under the wallpaper, but that was the only disappointment. The latter was quite spectacular, both for the old sections (Great Hall and sections of the walls and moat survive - abandoned by James VI, I think) and the new ones (1930s - the Courthauld family, complete with ring-tailed lemur). Immensely grand, and not at all ruined by being used by the Army Education Corps for fifty years. They took good care of it.
Then we had an early night and I got up at half-three to drive to Leeds. ( Read more... )
In other news, Eric's telling me a story about a man who gave himself a fatal electric shock via the genitals. Accidentally. I don't think I wanted to know.