School Holidays

This week has been school holidays, which has been a nice break. Damien has also been working in schools, as a teacher’s assistant. Its been quite fun work, swimming, city farm outings, yoga, cooking and its school hours, home by 4pm!
The first few days we chilled out didn’t do a great deal. We went to Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe. 3hr standing! Was cool, we stood under a black blanket that covered the whole crowd, with head holes cut out. The show was good, gory and hard to understand.
The weekend was eventful, Friday we went to a pub called Waxy ‘O’ Conners. Its bit of an Irish pub, but really nice on the inside. It has a large tree in the middle and the whole room is covered in nice wood. It’s a bit like a fairy tale hobbit hole. The music was good and we had a good time with a few people from the hostel, including Sarah who is leaving shortly.
Sunday was Grand Prix Sunday! Woo Hoo… Christine and Mel went on another shopping spree at some of the markets in London. The afternoon turned into a sport fest with rugby and tennis also being on after the GP.
The week also got a bit of arty culture, we went to see Spamalot a theater show in Wimbledon. It’s a comedy about king Arthur and the knights of the round table in search of Monty Pythons holy grail. It is actually a show I say 3 years ago in Las Vegas so it was good to see it again, Christine had not seen it before. Just quietly I think the Vegas show was better, but it was also new back then so a bit hard to compare.
We went to a movie for the first time in a long while, Robin Hood. Made another trip to the Tate Modern and spent a day walking around London seeing Kings Cross, Regents Park, Lords and the canals of Little Venice. Walking past Lords inspired me, so the next day I came back to watch a county 20/20 match. The star recruit for Middlesex was playing his first match, Adam Gilchrist, but wasn’t around for long, contributing a single run to the total before getting bowled.