A Lovely Weekend in London

It’s already mid-week and I haven’t yet caught up with last weekend. Mine was lovely. I went to Shakespeare’s Globe on Saturday evening for my first theatre visit this season, to see As You Like It. I liked it very well indeed.

The Globe filling up

I had to walk along the river from Waterloo Station to get there because the entire Jubilee line was out of action AGAIN. But I’m glad I did because I saw this poster outside the Feliks Topolski exhibition under the arches:

It’s me aged about 18! I sat for Feliks several times back then, and I have one of the paintings he made of me hanging on my wall at home. How funny to see this though!

After my gorgeous Globe experience and another riverside stroll I arrived at London Bridge to celebrate with my friend Jon Turner on his Golden Jubilee. It was a fabulous party with great food and plenty of old favourites to dance to. Jon still looks as good as he did when we first met way back in the eighties. No facelift and no botox – this man looks fab at 50!

A late Saturday night was followed by a busy Sunday. I headed up to the allotment to pick some more strawberries. They are so prolific and ripen overnight that I’m on a punnet-a-day strawberry habit right now! After a quick bit of weeding I headed off before the visitors to the Open Gardens Weekend arrived. I wasn’t really in the mood and besides I’d already accepted an invitation from my friend Andrew Logan to go along to his studio and join the Alternative Miss World contestants in a sort of ‘first viewing’ of the film of the event. I left with my jaw aching, I’d laughed so hard!

A lovely end to a lovely weekend.


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