Fill your days with life, not your life with days
"Who the hell organises an outdoor BBQ in February?" said the lady from the National Theatre Costume Hire (this explains the comment in a previous post). A fair question. The answer was mad Dutch friends. We had been invited to celebrate Jeanne's 50th birthday. She can't help when her birthday is, but an outdoor BBQ? …
Today we went to the National Theatre, but we didn't see a play. What we were up to is a surprise and will be revealed in a future post. After lunch we headed to Somerset House to see Good Grief Charlie Brown. A celebration of Charles M. Schulz's work in Peanuts. From the 60's onwards …
Photo: A walk in the Park. The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In the early hours of Monday morning, Rob and I were sometimes struggling to keep awake. The score was 3-0, three quarters of the way through the game. It looks like a football score, indeed it was, but American Football. We were watching Super …
Hillaire Belloc's The Four Men: A Farrago is a novel describing a 90 mile walk through the Sussex countryside, passing Brighton on the way. Today, we were four ICC clubmates travelling through the Sussex contryside by train to and from Brighton. The original plan was to catch the train to Brighton, collect David's new bike and …
Photo: A couple of shady characters. The celebratory dinner referred to in yesterday's post was The Trinity Hill, New Zealand, Magnum Club Dinner at The Crypt of St. Etheldreda's church in Ely Place. A chance to sample some of the best wines that New Zealand produce (so they said). Our host was their Wine Maker in …
Today is Blue Monday. The most depressing day of the year. Apparently. It's not science but a wheeze dreamed up by a travel company. It only applies to the Northern hemisphere as the weather contributes towards the formula to calculate the date. No Blue Monday in this household. Today is the 5th anniversary of my …
We went to see Stan and Ollie this evening. A gentle film about love and frienship. We both really enjoyed it. The nice mess started a few days before the film. We received notification that the film had been moved from Cinema 1 to the smaller Cinema 2 in the Barbican. We would all …
Last night I went to see my friend Mark to support him at one of his stand up comedy gigs. It was great to see him, especially as he's had a hard time of it of late. Here's hoping 2019 is much better for him. We met on our stand up comedy course, which he …
Photo: Jan striding to the pub. Since becoming an ultra runner her walking pace has got even faster. New year, new site. Our New Year's resolution is more 2048 x 1536 than stop doing this and start doing that. Today we switched to this new website. Staying with our great friends Angela and Neil …
Colin and Jan Fisher 