...and finally for tonight!

Well, it has been a gas; I am footsore a and tired (in addition to a blood blister on my 1st MTPJ I have a mega two-sided toe blister on my right 4th toe), but wish you could have been with me every step of the way (one each occasion I saw something wonderful/funny/super/lovely/scary/smelly/dirty/creepy/historical/exciting and stuff I thought of you, and on the steps when there wasn't anything like that I thought of you in any case).

I saw this today - the Olympic rings floating on the Thames - pretty much sums up the dirty, wonderful, beautiful, sweaty, crowded, classy & all-round SUPER London:

It was really lovely, I wish we had been together.

LY, MY, WYWH


Dad xxxxxx

Hello Duckie!

Well, down from Stoke (station) I knew somewhere I'd get a special wave from somebody...

Yup!  You guessed it - the London Duck!  Sounded like an old bus struggling up the High Street, listing a little to the right on the turn.

Good luck to all who sail in her (won't be me...)

Ciao  X

Union Mandie Morph; is this the next Dr Who?

Weird; this guy walked up to Union Flag Mandie, touched him & then morphed into him...

Freaky!  Do you think it has something to do with his rugby shirt?  These Mandies have special powers...maybe they're the new version of the TARDIS?

...and why was this woman kissing him afterwards?

Is that the new Rose?

Hunh?

I thought we needed snow for a Christmas special...

Red Trail; strolling around Westminster

This was a lovely stroll; 13 Wennies & Mandies around Westminster.

This walk was ace; I really would have loved you to be with me.  The views of Parliament were great and I had a very special surprise at the end...more of that later.

The list is as such:

1. Big Ben Wenlock
2. Underwater Wenlock
3. UnionFlag Mandeville
4. Wenlock (!)
5. Speaker Wenlock
6. Tourist Mandeville
7. Doctor Wenlock
8. Lambeth Palace Mandeville
9. Garden Wenlock
10. A-Z Map Wenlock
11. Victorian Wenlock
12. Household Cavalry Mandeville
13. Westminster Abbey Wenlock (superbly painted with great 3D design)

I was shattered at the end of my fourth trail, but thrilled that I only had two trails to do; I think I have seen 24 today & 32 yesterday, which makes 56, so 26 to go (I think...)

MY loads

Dad X

Go! Team GB!

Yay!  Today was ace because I saw two Union Flag Wennies & Mandies;

So, comparing the two;

Wenlock has a sort-of pointy head and Mandeville has three alien-dreads, also Mandie has one bangle, whereas Wennners has five bangles (some Wenners' bangles are coloured red, yellow, black, yellow & blue).

I think that the five bangles represent the five continents involved in the Olympic Games; Europe, America, Asia, Australia & Africa.

Being the Paralympic mascot I think the single bangle represents the whole world, but I'm not sure - I'll find out though, unless - of course, you text me the answer first!

MY x millions


Dad xxxxxx

All the world's a stage

So for a little light entertainment I stopped off at The Globe for a lunchtime play;

The Taming of The Shrew at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the Southbank.

It was HILARIOUS!

This is what The Globe says about the play:

Two wealthy sisters in Padua must be married off. The modest, demure Bianca has no shortage of suitors, but who on earth will take the wild, ungovernable, shrewish Katherina? Only the gold-digging Petruchio, a man as maddeningly strong-willed and perverse as Katherina herself, is equal to thetask of bullying her to the altar.

Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.

The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion.

The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona and Katherina (Kate...haha), the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments—the "taming"—until she becomes a compliant and obedient bride. The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's more desirable sister, Bianca who is, in fact a bit of a ratbag herself.

These two actors were really good & stole the show.  Jolly well done!

I really missed mum during this play: I don't think I have ever been to the theatre without her.  She would have told me off for laughing so loud though...hehe.

Dad X

Camouflage Wenlock

So, one special Wenlock was so well painted he faded into the background if you turned sideways;

...now you see him...

...now you don't.

Amazing!  Well done MOL Arty Crafters!

;-)