Thursday, November 5/2015

The plan, despite the weather (warm but an umbrella day) is to visit the Saatchi Gallery and then do a bit of low level shopping. The gallery, not for the first time, proves to be closed for setting up a show - better website checking called for - so it's down to the shopping. Popping in and out of shops on Kilburn High Road with the umbrellas going up and down. Socks, chocolate, wine, etc. Plastic bags are now 5 p (10 cents CAD) each at large stores by legislation. Primark uses paper bags, as it always has. Just as well that we carry folded nylon ones, as we the bottle of wine we've added to the paper bag begins to work its way through as rain dampens the paper. Happy not to be the person responsible for wine and broken glass on the underground platform. Guy Fawkes day, and at night we can hear the fireworks but a bit wet for standing about. Glass of wine instead.