Thursday, April 1/2010

Our time in London is half over, so we go down to Victoria to collect the April London planner to see what we shouldn't be missing and to Victoria Coach Station to check on day trips - though here most of the pamphlets are unimformative or missing. Increasingly brochures refer one to the net - and the prices are often cheaper there too.

Home to the bedsit. When we first moved in there was, incongruously, a large brown (presumably) faux leather recliner and a small off-white footstool sitting outside the door to the lower level. There's nothing obviously wrong with them - one supposes they just didn't fit inside someone's tiny bedsit - but they must be filling up with rain water. There was also a bar sized fridge (not working?) which has recently been topped with a television set (also not working?). Interesting collection, a little like a prop room for a drama taking place elsewhere. Most Londoners have no basement and little spare room, so one quite often sees things in skips or left for the binman that look quite salvageable, but can see why they aren't salvaged.

Minor disaster over dinner - not the food. J turns wrong burner on and I have left a glass dinner plate on the now hot burner. when I notice, I remove the glass and it promptly shatters. Had I turned off the burner and left it to cool, the plate would probably have survived. As it is, bits off hot glass embed themselves in the carpet - and are eventually removed by J. Quite dramatic.