Bob & Betty go British

The finished product

I know I promised to post a picture of my finished knitting project. And here it is finally! You'll be pleased to know that the scarf project is coming along nicely as well and I'm hoping to have that ready to show you before Autumn officially begins next week. I can't say that there are many signs of Autumn aside from the slightly cooler, cloudy and wet weather. I'm not sure if the trees outside our flat are going to change for Autumn or not. We'll just have to wait and see.

Last night we went to see The Producers at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane (only just around the corner from where I work). We picked one of those dinner and theatre deals. We went to Porters English Restaurant which turned out to be pretty horrid, but it was food and it was quick and the show was much much more enjoyable. I had only made it through the first 15 minutes of the film of The Producers on the plane from Tokyo to London and so was pleasantly surprised to have enjoyed myself. I think musicals work much better on stage and everyone enjoys a good comedy. I can highly recommend it if you ever get the opportunity to see it live.

Last weekend we didn't get up to much. We went to Richmond to have brunch for Chris' birthday (the Chris of Chris and Suzanne who we stayed with when we first arrived - they are in Iceland at the moment!). We went to the Canyon Restaurant which is on the Thames and we were all a little perplexed when our full english breakfast arrived without the eggs! Luckily they had actually cooked the eggs, they'd just forgotten to put them on our plates. I guess there were a lot of different things on the plates (tomatoes, baked beans, toast, bacon, sausage and mushrooms) but I mean really... We had a very pleasant post-food stroll along the river before heading home again. There is a very large park called Old Deer Park where the nobility used to go hunting. The Kings Observatory is in the middle of the park and apparently the original Meridian line ran through it before the line was relocated to Greenwich. I'd like to go to Greenwich at some point. The Thames must have rather high tides in Richmond as the pub on the River has a special elevated side entrance for when the tide is too high to go in the front door (see the sign on the side of the pub in the picture).

Anyway, I'd better get back to my cleaning and sorting before Robert comes back. I've sent him off on a bicycle ride on his own so I've got time and space to attend to home things before Juliet arrives back from Croatia this afternoon. I'll let you know what we get up to over the long weekend (yay!) later in the week.

posted by Elisabeth @ 11:21 AM