Tuesday, April 20/2010

Over to the National to queue for £10 theatre tickets, this time for Really Old, Like Forty-Five. We go to the matinee. It's at the Cottsloe, their more experimental theatre, which is a pity because the same day seats have a somewhat restricted view and the accoustics aren't as good as the other two theatres. The play takes p\a darkly comic look at the position of the elderly and it has its moments, but we'll go back to choosing plays by the playwright.

The daffodils are pretty well finished, as is the forsythia and most of the magnolias. The camelias as well. But there ae still more flowers coming along - mimosa still in bloom and lilacs and hyacinths as well as cherry and quince blossoms.

Dinner at Roses on Kilburn High Road. Kilburn High Road being our great neighbourhood discovery of the year. We're there for the Polish menu - and the perogies are amazingly good - enormous and bacon covered. The cafe is full of locals, cheap, good and large platesful, with most of the dishes £4 to £5 ($6-7.50)