Stop at the bank, Charing Cross branch, to arrange (successfully we hope) to have the debit cards replaced with ones tht expirein the spring when we're home rather than in the winter when we're away. there are a finite number of tickable boxes - the young man tilts the screen so we can see - so our cards are listed as damaged. Does seema bit lame that they would both be, but whatever works.
Bus from Trafalgar to the War Museum, but we see it goes out the Old Kent Road to a large Tesco - so we check it out, as the large ones don't exist in the city centre. Then back to the museum. There's an exhibition on following one large (ten children!) South London family through the war years. There's a lovely scale model of their house - from bread on the table to chamber pots under the bed. Then displays of rtions and ration books, clothing, gas masks and government advice, as well as info on evacuation, women's work, nutrition, etc. There are short film clips and it's also interesting listening to some of the comments and memories of others at the exhibition.
Our plan is to go to the Spitfire restaurant on Fulham Palace Road. it's a Polish restaurant with really good reviews and we've had our eye on it for a couple of years now. A bit confusing to access from Hammersmith tube station as you exit at the back of the mall and go under the flyover - and ti's raining. But when we get there (only a couple of blocks) we find that the restaurant is empty - and to let. We've waited too long.
Instead we go to the café in the Polish cultural centre. It's a nice place with a fair variety of comfort food. J has the beef goulash and I the perogies - very nice ones too. That would have been plenty, but J persuades me - minimal arm twisting necessary - to have an apple szarlotke as well. Reminds us both of J's mother's baking.
Bus from Trafalgar to the War Museum, but we see it goes out the Old Kent Road to a large Tesco - so we check it out, as the large ones don't exist in the city centre. Then back to the museum. There's an exhibition on following one large (ten children!) South London family through the war years. There's a lovely scale model of their house - from bread on the table to chamber pots under the bed. Then displays of rtions and ration books, clothing, gas masks and government advice, as well as info on evacuation, women's work, nutrition, etc. There are short film clips and it's also interesting listening to some of the comments and memories of others at the exhibition.
Our plan is to go to the Spitfire restaurant on Fulham Palace Road. it's a Polish restaurant with really good reviews and we've had our eye on it for a couple of years now. A bit confusing to access from Hammersmith tube station as you exit at the back of the mall and go under the flyover - and ti's raining. But when we get there (only a couple of blocks) we find that the restaurant is empty - and to let. We've waited too long.
Instead we go to the café in the Polish cultural centre. It's a nice place with a fair variety of comfort food. J has the beef goulash and I the perogies - very nice ones too. That would have been plenty, but J persuades me - minimal arm twisting necessary - to have an apple szarlotke as well. Reminds us both of J's mother's baking.
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