My productive day
Today I woke up feeling a bit at a loss. I have nearly six weeks stretching out in front of me and it's a bit weird now Andy's started work. So I moped for a bit, then I remembered the wise words of Harvey Danger: "if you're bored then you're boring". And I realised that I'm in one of the biggest cities of the world, with a 'socialist' government and therefore lots of free museums and galleries and stuff.
So today I planned things to do. I've set up a calendar for myself, and I've been gathering lots of exciting ideas of free or cheap things to do. So far I've got a day out in Greenwich, the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge opening, a breakfast date, a lunch date, a dinner date, a coffee date, a larking-in-the-park date (to involve pedal-boats), a birthday party date, a visit to the Science Museum, the V&A, the British Museum, the Tate Modern, the Wallace Collection, the Bank of England museum, the London Transport Museum, a tour of the BBC, a trip on the No 11 bus (which essentially visits all the main tourist sites), and free tickets to watch 8 out of 10 Cats being recorded next Tuesday. I'm also considering visiting HMS Belfast, the London Dungeons and the Tower of London. And lots and lots of self-guided walks around London, and hopefully some free lectures from Gresham College and free music at various concert series, as well as choral evensong at Westminster Cathedral, and hopefully visiting Katy in Norwich at some stage too.
And in between all this I've got to find and move into a new flat. Now six weeks feels like hardly any time at all.
So today I planned things to do. I've set up a calendar for myself, and I've been gathering lots of exciting ideas of free or cheap things to do. So far I've got a day out in Greenwich, the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge opening, a breakfast date, a lunch date, a dinner date, a coffee date, a larking-in-the-park date (to involve pedal-boats), a birthday party date, a visit to the Science Museum, the V&A, the British Museum, the Tate Modern, the Wallace Collection, the Bank of England museum, the London Transport Museum, a tour of the BBC, a trip on the No 11 bus (which essentially visits all the main tourist sites), and free tickets to watch 8 out of 10 Cats being recorded next Tuesday. I'm also considering visiting HMS Belfast, the London Dungeons and the Tower of London. And lots and lots of self-guided walks around London, and hopefully some free lectures from Gresham College and free music at various concert series, as well as choral evensong at Westminster Cathedral, and hopefully visiting Katy in Norwich at some stage too.
And in between all this I've got to find and move into a new flat. Now six weeks feels like hardly any time at all.
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