More Bits and Bobs
Lots of little bits to share again.
Met up for drinks on Wednesday with my friends Scott and Nina who were visiting from Australia. Nina is a British diplomat and was over writing some civil service exams which luckily happened before Christmas so she could see her parents. Angela and I now have a place to stay in Canberra.
On Thursday my aunt came to visit and we spent all day Thursday and Friday walking our butts off. We hit all the highlights of London and then some.
We went into St. Martins in the Fields and there was a rehearsal going on for a recital that evening. We spent almost and hour listening to fantastic music. The violin soloist - Ida Haendal -http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/haendel.html was amazing.
As we walked past the Canadian Embassy, we noticed a sign showing that there was an exhibit by Douglas Coupland so we went in to view it. http://www.dexigner.com/product/news-g1651.html His premise is that in the 50's Canada did not have an identity and that it was considered almost subversive to suggest that it did. However, over the last 40 years, a unique Canadian identity has developed that is kind of like a secret handshake. If you are Canadian, you know what it is but cannot really articulate it. He had a number of displays that used Canadian stuff and all I could do was stand in awe and keep saying yep he got it. There was a chests and furniture made of old signs that had Eatons and Canadian Tire catalogues from the 70's sitting on top with pillars around it made out of buoys. There was old dutch potato chips and crosby's molasses and really really old beer cans beside hockey pucks and motomaster windshield washer fluid and a snow shovel with bacon hanging off it and a lot more.
On Friday we walked down the South Bank and went to Shakespeare's Globe theatre. While we were on the tour there was an actress auditioning. We got to sit in the stalls and listen to her. Really cool.
It was really cool to walk around London and realise how much goes on during the day. A perk of being unemployed??
Friday evening I went to tea at the Ritz with Laura and her friend Wendy. How posh. They have the best scones ever made.
I spent the weekend in Arundel being Christine Climbing Tree and came home today and baked and decorated 123 sugar cookies. Yeah Christmas!
Well, you are now up to date.
Met up for drinks on Wednesday with my friends Scott and Nina who were visiting from Australia. Nina is a British diplomat and was over writing some civil service exams which luckily happened before Christmas so she could see her parents. Angela and I now have a place to stay in Canberra.
On Thursday my aunt came to visit and we spent all day Thursday and Friday walking our butts off. We hit all the highlights of London and then some.
We went into St. Martins in the Fields and there was a rehearsal going on for a recital that evening. We spent almost and hour listening to fantastic music. The violin soloist - Ida Haendal -http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/haendel.html was amazing.
As we walked past the Canadian Embassy, we noticed a sign showing that there was an exhibit by Douglas Coupland so we went in to view it. http://www.dexigner.com/product/news-g1651.html His premise is that in the 50's Canada did not have an identity and that it was considered almost subversive to suggest that it did. However, over the last 40 years, a unique Canadian identity has developed that is kind of like a secret handshake. If you are Canadian, you know what it is but cannot really articulate it. He had a number of displays that used Canadian stuff and all I could do was stand in awe and keep saying yep he got it. There was a chests and furniture made of old signs that had Eatons and Canadian Tire catalogues from the 70's sitting on top with pillars around it made out of buoys. There was old dutch potato chips and crosby's molasses and really really old beer cans beside hockey pucks and motomaster windshield washer fluid and a snow shovel with bacon hanging off it and a lot more.
On Friday we walked down the South Bank and went to Shakespeare's Globe theatre. While we were on the tour there was an actress auditioning. We got to sit in the stalls and listen to her. Really cool.
It was really cool to walk around London and realise how much goes on during the day. A perk of being unemployed??
Friday evening I went to tea at the Ritz with Laura and her friend Wendy. How posh. They have the best scones ever made.
I spent the weekend in Arundel being Christine Climbing Tree and came home today and baked and decorated 123 sugar cookies. Yeah Christmas!
Well, you are now up to date.
1 Comments:
Somehow> being unemployed in PEI would and could never compare to redundant in London> how lucky you are!
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Fernegulley, at 2:19 p.m.
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