Where to begin?

I began a lengthy post yesterday about my Easter weekend when I hit the wrong key, causing me to lose all of what I had typed. So I started again, fuming, and then the website had problems so I couldn't save what I had. Grrr!!

Anyway, to cut a long story short, this is what I did on the Easter weekend.

Thursday night we went out for drinks with Sarah and her teacher friends. Not such a great idea. I really like Jake and Sarah, but the conversation was centred on teaching. I can't contribute to that, and neither can Scott. Poor Jake looked like he was bored and tired, so he was not much of a conversationalist either. Oh well, I am still looking forward to going to the Hungarian restaurant with them, hopefully soon too.

Friday we slept in. We worked on our respective job applications until it was time to go out. We took the tube into the west end and went to China Town for dinner. Then at 7pm we had a date with The Witches! As in Roald Dahl's story, turned into a play, in the West End! Fab it was! They used a variety of media, such as a video screen and puppets, and of course, the delightful Ruby Wax. There were heaps of kids in the audience too, which made it a bit fun. I was very impressed with the puppets. It was a fun way to spend the night really, and it was all over by 8.30pm, so we wandered around Soho for a but looking at the weird weird London people.

Saturday was a busy day. We got up early, and Scott went to the post office to send off a job application. We spent some time in the internet cafe chatting to people online. Then it was home for a quick lunch and out again to catch two tubes to Brixton. Brixton is, or definitely used to be, a rough part of London. It is better, but still a little scarey! We were meeting Judy for 2.30pm, but as we arrived early, we wandered thru the market near the station. It was a lovely spring day with the sun shining, and dead chickens hanging up in the butchers (heads and all, they look like someone took their clothes off!!)

From Brixton, in Judy's car, we went to the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Twas a nice place really. Nice paintings, an exhibition on watercolours for us to view - and all for free too!! We wandered around the Gallery's gardens and in the park across the road admiring the flowers. It is spring over here of course, so all the flowers are out in bloom. I love seeing daffodils, they are so happy. They almost look like they are smiling at me.

We had dinner at Judy's which was lovely. Her son (my 4th cousin) was there too. He works over near us now, so we shall have him over for dinner one night I think.

Sunday. Slept in, and didn't do all that much. Nothing was open anyway!! Sunday night we stood on a street corner and handed out bookmarks advertising an exhibition at a gallery. A really boring job, but it's a bit of extra money, so it's ok.

Monday, we rang Mark, a friend from supermarket days. It was great to hear his voice. It's one of the things I miss, is being able to just pick up the phone and chat to people. It is so expensive to call home from here.

After the phone call, we hopped on the tube and headed over to Bethnal Green. Destination: the Museum of Childhood. A great place really. They have games and toys of every description in cases, as well as dolls houses etc. Dress ups for kids, and giant checkers to play. Fun! From there we took the tube to St Pauls, in the hope of having a look at the place. They were charging 7 pounds to get in, so we gave it a miss. A little expensive! So we just wandered around the City of London. I know that may sound weird, but the area that is actually called the City of London is only one square mile. It is where the financial district is. There is a building there called the Gherkin (well, not it's real name, but that's what it looks like), and we found that. It was fun to take photos of it with a church nearby in the photo from the 1600s.

And that was Easter pretty much.

Just to get something off my chest. I am sick of the girls in my office talking about tv. That's all they discuss! Boring!