Day 129 - 32 years

My last golf-free day for a while (playing that is: I have been following Paul Casey's first round at The Travelers - looking good so far!). This will mostly be spent up in London at a monthly Board Meeting. London is hot and full of Google Maps-toting tourists: not a good combination!

Today is our Wedding Anniversary (32 years, thanks for asking!) and we are going to celebrate this with dinner and then a play. We ate tonight at the Archduke, underneath the train tracks from Waterloo to Charing Cross.  This location was a bit if a throw-back as we first frequented it when I worked in Shell Centre, on the South Bank, in the early 1980s. At the time, it received seed funding from Shell, in a bid to boost local businesses in what was then a pretty dreary part of London. They must be doing something right though as it's still going, offering very much the same sort of fare as all those years ago. And the whole area is buzzing!

It was only a short walk to the National Theatre, where we had tickets to see the Beaux Stratagem. I was a little apprehensive about this production as the last period piece we had seen there had been largely incomprehensible and quite hard work.

I needn't have worried! The language was easily understood and the production kept moving space with a mixture of humour, music and song. As always at the National, the sets were excellent and the cast as good as ever - and so numerous! Very enjoyable - and all the more so as we managed to stroll gently and walk straight into our train home. Now I get to see the new hob...