Places I have found myself.
The thing about living in London, I've mentioned before, is that it is so chock-full of things to do that it's surprisingly easy not to do anything. "Pfft", I say. "Buckingham Palace? That'll be here next week" or "Tower bridge? That's not going anywhere", and with this attitude I never actually go and see these things.
In recent months my weekends tend to have slipped into a pattern of going off to the country or slaughtering untold legions of villains and ne'er-do-wells on my computer and I've not done anything off the wall like judge a Russian Poetry competition in ages. As such, this weekend I decided to do something unusual and Londonny. Have a bit of an adventure. Whatever it was I ended up doing, I decided, it was going to be Out Of The Ordinary.

If, when I walked out of the house on Saturday morning with this intention, you'd told me that I'd be watching an episode of Thunderbirds with a full 80-piece orchestra providing live musical accompaniment and Brian Blessed (also live) booming "5...4...3...2...1!" and "THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!" at appropriate moments I'm not sure I'd've believed you - which would have been a shame, as that's where I found myself a few hours later.

That's what I like about living in London. Anything can happen in the next half hour.
(davywavy, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:19, 10 replies)

Yay
A bunch of clicks.
(ShitBitch, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:35, closed)

ah
you went to the Philharmonia's gig on the South Bank? Class.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 12:59, closed)

I did
It was ace. Were you there?
(davywavy, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 13:09, closed)

Sadly not.
I was at a wedding with a couple of friends, one of whom works for the Philharmonia. She was gutted she couldn't go either!
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 14:14, closed)

Brian doing the voice of the Mysterons
Was worth the price of admission in itself.
(davywavy, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 15:18, closed)

being a bit of a cheap shit...
well being poor now and not having a passport since last month I decided to see what was free to do in my home town of Brighton. there was millions of things including a museam full of stuffed animals (smelt like my grans house) a really saucy art gallery with the "mae wests lips sofa" that dali designed it was great... so i started buying lonely planet guidebooks to places in the UK its mint. Bournemouth was however,.. shit.
(jordanchaos isn’t just any PeaRoast, this is a M&S PeaRoast, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 16:03, closed)

There's an immense amount of cool free stuff if you go looking for it
Tomorrow night I'm going to a lecture on the search for extraterrestrial life in Spanish. It sounds too bizarre to miss!
(davywavy, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 16:17, closed)

Bournemouth is shit ...
The town centre at the weekend is full of stag/hen parties and is a pissheads paradise, the whole place has descended into a pseudo Blackpool. Having said that, within 30 minutes of my front door, there is teh New Forest, Jurassic coast, Isle of Purbeck, Sandbanks, and a Pizza Hut, Maccy D and Golden Palace.

I remain...
( slapdash flying through the cool clean air since, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 22:29, closed)

enter shikari reference?
:D
(The_Queen_Is_Dead Scooter Is A Blonde Haired Fuck-monkey, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 9:37, closed)

I was confused by this...
I'm much too old & square to know about Enter Shikari - "Anything can happen in the next half hour!" is originally a quote from the intro to Stingray :)
(davywavy, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 10:46, closed)