The Plough
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Leaving bash at The Plough
17:00 on Friday 15th - it all starts here, leaving GSK where I have been very happily employed since July 2005.
And off to The Plough for great evening with friends joining me for my leaving.
Great thanks to Janet for the pictures :-)
The Queen was not at Home
... br>
The only con about seeing the matinee show was that it was rather dark when we got out and things were beginning to close. I did get my picture at Platform 9 3/4, though. Then we got halfway to Abbey Road and were so fed up with the train schedules that we just turned around and went back; the picture wouldn't have quite been the same at night anyway. I also didn't get a chance to wander around Camden Market. But you know what that ...
Blisteria
... in to Boots again, this time to see if I could get a bottle of tablets that I managed to leave behind. Nope, even if I had the script faxed over. Looks like I’ll need to get them express couriered over here from home. Darn.
Al’s feet survived the day. We had a really great dinner at Original Tagines (www.original-tagines.com), just around the corner in Dorset Street. This holiday is going to fly ...
My first Olympics/London 2012
When I was kid I always fantasized that one day I would be at the Olympics. In the winter Olympics I envisioned that I would be a figure skater (solo) and that I would be more amazing than Dorothy Hamil and with better hair as well. In the summer Olympics I would be one of the greatest athletes in track and field -similar to Flo Jo but not as fancy nails. Today I close my eyes and pretend that I'm the best beach volleyball player the world has yet to see; however, ...
Westminster Abbey
... is buried there, her cousin Elizabeth, and many of the kings and noblemen throughout the years. There are also a lot of poets, writers and musicians buried there. Chaucer was the first of many to be buried in what is now know as poets corner. There is a statue erected to William Shakespeare, but they decided not to move his body from Stratford upon Avon.
I saw the Coronation Chair and the altar where ...
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