it is raining!
Matthew McInerney
well, here we are with the first blog - I did laugh at your editing, Matthew, but thought I had best not risk anymore. Although, I was almost inclined to say the same thing in this title - It is raining quite steadily on and off. We might even have to buy wellies to use in Glasgow. The weather is supposed to be 'rubbish' here for the next few days - that is what they say here about the weather. We were having a drink in a pub in Romsey last night and there were these fellows there all saying the same thing about the weather - the pub has a thatched roof and is called 'The House at Home'. and it is like a home away from home for all these fellows who belong to the Legion - a sort of RSL but very toffy - it seemed so as they spoke in quite toffy voices so it sounded funny to hear 'rubbish, rubbish, rubbish'.
We had a lovely time in London - the weather was perfect for walking about whilst visiting the shops and going to the theatre. We stayed in a hotel near the British Museum so quite convenient to the theatre district. We were upgraded to suites as the rooms were not ready at 4pm and they were very posh. The hotel had been refurbished so all was very modern and clean - not to be compared to the supposedly renovated hotel in Brugges which had been done by the home handy man. I don't mind old but I do like clean as in no balck in the grout in the tiles and the shower curtain was all black down the bottom. Of course, when we mentioned that we would like a clean one, the man at reception said 'yes' and did nothing and we did nothing!
The play 'The Mousetrap' was a murder mystery by Agatha Christie but very old and dated - it was quite quaint and a bit silly. We were glad we had seen it - it was played in a beautiful little theatre and it is an institution. Sunday morning, Dad and I went to Buckingham Palace - another institution - it was magnificent as you can imagine - with a special exhibition of her commonwealth tours. It included lots of the gowns she had worn on special occasions and gifts she had been given by the commonwealth countries- very interesting. As Dad mentioned, we then met Andy and Claire for lunch and this very old pub 'The Grenadier'. It was in a little lane and we would never have known about it except Kerrie, my schoolfriend, had just returned from a trip to London and told me about it - it is rather historic as it was the pub used by the Grenadier guards in Wellington's time. http://www.pubs.com/grensw1.htm
After that we caught the train home - that night we walked to the local - aobut 8 minutes away and had a drink - it is what you do in England.
I must go as I am getting the hair done this morning - love to all mum - is that proper for blogs - Is there an etiquette for blogs and also how are people going to know about this - do they need an email to tell them to check the blog or do some need to change behaviour for this method?