The Natural History Museum is another one of the museums we wanted to knock off our list of things to see, so we went to spend the day there with Karen. We started on the Earth side (the part with volcanos and rocks) and didn’t manage to get to the Animal / Creature side because, [...]

Karen (Richard’s sister) came to visit for two weeks. It was great spending some time doing the touristy London things and best of all was going to see some theatre shows at last!We saw Spamalot which was seriously funny, and Wicked which was just spectacular.The photo at the top was taken in St James park [...]

My folks arrived on Saturday for a weekend in London before heading up to Scotland. I had this brilliant plan of taking them to see my lunch spot at St James’s Park, but didn’t think about the HORDES of people that would be around for Trooping the Colours. From wikipedia “Trooping the Colour is an [...]

Richard’s uncle managed to get us in to the taping of the TV show called “QI“. For normal people, you can go to the studios and queue for hours and then see the taping… or for people who know Dave’s friend, you can go to a pub and have a drink before skipping the queue [...]

This is the first time I am actually thankful for bulk messages. If it had not been for the mail from Ticketmaster saying that more Foo’s tickets had been released on Friday, we would not have made it! We sat quite high up in the stands but it was still good to see and hear [...]