NEWS UPDATE WITH PICTURES

We went to London over the last few days.

Didn't see the queen though. Maybe, as it was raining she went elsewhere.

London's a great place although the rain limited the choice of things to do which meant indoorsy stuff.

I went to the Victoria and Albert museum one day and the British Museum the next while the Old Girl was at work in her company's London office.

It was OK but really, one museum is very much like another. Google and various other internet offerings make it so easy nowadays to check out things on-line so you don't have to traipse around endless large halls getting foot weary .....

I did find a fascinating exhibition of double basses though.

Nah. Just kidding. It was mind-numbingly boring and just made you want to put your head down.

We'll be going back to London a few more times though so, when the Old Girl isn't working we'll visit the art galleries.
Decent art doesn't replicate well on computer screens so you just have to see it in real life to appreciate colours, technique, form etc.

We stayed in a B&B in South Kensington (Yah-hoo-Henry country),

owned by an eccentric nutter. It was pretty good but she insisted on plying us with drink (rare and excellent Scotch) when we came home in the evenings after a night out drinking wine. Whew! Hard work.

When out having a glass of wine at a quaint pub at Blackfriars we found the Wine Guy outside.

I don't know why he was drinking outside as it was raining - maybe they kicked him out.