With all the hype around the (no longer quite) new Harry Potter plays, I had assumed they’d be sold out until autumn at least. Not so! When I got online my first week here I discovered that when you’re buying only one ticket and are willing to pay for the good seats, it’s actually pretty […]
After a week of dreary grey weather, Saturday — finally — was gorgeous. Since I was weary of house-hunting, and since all of my sunglasses have long since been stolen and/or misplaced, I decided to go sunglass shopping near Covent Garden. I may have come home with more than one pair…
To make up for the disastrously uninteresting Friday night, I got tickets on Saturday to see a performance by the Scottish Ballet at Sadler’s Wells, which is apparently London’s leading venues for dance. The program was very exciting. It offered pieces by two choreographers whose pieces I’ve seen before and really enjoyed: First a piece […]
First Friday in London, I’ve got this world-class city at my fingertips and what do I do? Umm, well . . . At about 7:00pm, I pulled my head out of my work emails and realized that despite the glorious sunlight still streaming over the city (we’re farther north than Calgary, so the days are […]
Guess what I had for dinner tonight! Yep. The staple of mission and student years which I haven’t made once in probably nearly ten years. But when you’re starving after a day of apartment hunting and don’t want to eat cold cereal for dinner again and can’t find any nearby restaurants that aren’t what you’ve […]
I went in to the office this afternoon to try and make some headway on the 300+ emails that had piled up over the past few days. It was fun to pass this on the way: And even more fun to see this immediately next door: I love that juxtaposition of era.
Possibly as a result of jet lag and having slept roughly 15 of the past 24 hours, I am currently wide awake in front of my computer with credit card in hand and BBC coverage of the upcoming UK elections on mute in the background. I may have just purchased tickets to see Harry Potter […]
You would have thought that, having gone to bed at 8:00pm last night, I wouldn’t have had any trouble waking up this morning. And I didn’t, really. I woke right up when the alarm went off at 6:00am. I had breakfast and thought about launching into my list of Things To Do. But the weather […]
Actually, the adventure began at the end of March when I accepted the offer to move to London to become (more or less) the European counterpart to what I had been doing in the US. But today I finally got on the plane with a one way ticket and a two-year work visa in my […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 