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Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Wednesday, April 29/2026

 

Stroll along the South Bank looking across the Thames. Meet up with Jenny, who has come in from Thames Ditton, at the Tate Modern. No current exhibition at the multi storey turbine hall, where we’ve seen a couple of brilliant ones. 



Stop briefly at the Draw room where children are creating pictures on screens. They’re then able to save a printout or put it on a T-shirt. Looks like fun and they don’t actually post a permissible age range, but we suspect it doesn’t include us.


But we’re actually here to chat rather than view, so meet up in the ground floor café. And wait out a few late lunchers to nab a corner sofa by a window.

Part company at Waterloo Station and take the underground back to Kilburn, where we pay our annual visit to Roses café, now renamed bistro (as the ham and egg breakfasts graduate to eggs benedict and avocado). Lamb kleftiko still excellent though. And plentiful enough we bring at least half of it home.