well done, getbigger!
& i've modified my post because I had such a wonderful weekend and this is kinda like keeping a diary...
I travelled from here to Victoria Station on Friday afternoon, to get to Cambridge (2 hours) for my bestest oldest girlfriends birthday. I missed the first coach (there was mad traffic and it wasn't my fault. But the views when I finally left London were awesome (the only other time I've travelled by bus is going up North to visit my mum and the route is straight outta town. This time was the first time I've taken the bus to Cambridge, I usually take the train from King's Cross. So the route was around Big Ben and Westminster, along the Thames past the London Eye, the entire sightseeing thing. Coming back was fab too, at night with all the Christmas lights.
I arrived in Cambridge and had 2 hours to myself till my mate finished work, so I walked around. The BBC were at King's College, getting ready for the choir on Christmas Eve. I guess they do all the scenery first and then broadcast live on the night. They had helicopters and the sunset was one of the best I've ever seen. I got photos (not just pix of the building, but I asked someone to take one of me in front of the building with the sunset. Just a snapshot or 3). I was being a tourist after all. Then the little boys, all in top hats walking two by two came around the corner, walking into King's. I got a photo of that too.
We went to Saffron Walden, where I grew up before my family emigrated to Canada, and they had two streets and the market square closed for charity late night shopping. All the shops were open and everyone in town was out. There were stalls with tombola and wine or water for £1 and hot soup for 50p and a band playing outside the pub and people on stilts and people doing "free hugs". Everyone was wearing flashy lights and mad costumes.
That was Friday. On Saturday we went shopping again and to the theatre. We saw the Merchants of Bollywood. They're touring the world. Came to England from Australasia. If they go to America, please go. It was the best show I've ever seen.
What's funny is that they're coming to London for Christmas so I can show off and say I've already seen it. 40 dancers from Bollywood, exhilarating. I've just read the review and they say even the foyer is colourful. It was, the whole thing was gorgeous. I'm thinking of hanging around at the stage door when they come to London... I've never seen that much pure energy and raw sex on stage.
We came home and opened a bottle of champagne for her birthday and watched the boxing match, which was madness. I dunno whether you will have had that in America, it was the European lightweight championship and Khan, who had never lost and never gone ten rounds. We couldn't believe what they were wearing and were laughing and screaming. It was a nail-biting 10 rounds. She'd never watched boxing before and I sided with her hubby, after he said well I watch the gardening and the cooking and the soaps and the x-factor and big brother get me outta here, so I wanna watch this, ok? And she enjoyed it, got into it. I know that wasn't what she had planned for her birthday, but that's what we did.
I ate wonderfully well and gots lots of hugs all weekend. Great time, I'm still feeling high from it.
xL
ps: I thought I was manic (well, I know I am, I'm diagnosed as bi-polar), but spending a weekend with a friend, her hubby and their 13 year old daughter, all of whom I've known forever, was more manic than my normal life !!! non-stop.
