Begin by watching qualifying for tomorrow's Malaysian Grand Prix. it's quite interesting as there is intermittent heavy rain, creating an unpredictable starting grid.
It's on the edge of rain when I go out for a Guardian before qualifying, but bits of sun crep through and we decide to walk over to Kilburn, about a mile away, to explore and also to check out the Cock Tavern, which incorporates a small theatre, currently host to a production of La Boheme - tecommended to us by a man on a bus in Camden Town. Kilburn high road is a pleasure, with some of the rough vibrancy that Queensway had twenty years ago and has lost. There's the Bell pub - where one can have fish and chis and a pint for £6 ($9.25 CAD or €6.60). There are plenty of small shops, some with produce spilling out onto the street, and little street corner markets. At one point we pass a group of exuberant black singers, singing gospel music out of sheer exuberance - no hat out for collections. We find the Cock Tavern. It's a stately brick building, licensed in 1486 and rebuilt in 1900. Upstairs there's a theatre that seats 40, while the downstairs is, apart from the tile mosaic in the entry, a reasonably unprepossessing pub - bare wood floors, a scattering of male regulars and even, as we come through the outer doors, a faint but unmistakeable smell of piss. No refinement, but like Kilburn High Road itself, very real. Unfortunately, it's not possible to buy tickets - or even get prices - here. That has to be done online or by phone.
Take the 31 bus to Camden Town where we get a whole chicken at Somerfield Co-op and then bacon, pitas, milk and trout fillets at Sainsbury's. Then home by tube.
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