It's taken a Holiday...

...to get me to up date on my blog...
A lot to post!
Let's see...
Outing to ROH to see Strauss;

Not my cup of coffee...give me Puccini every time.  And speaking of Puccini, here's a photo of the Cornish beach closest to the Minack where I'll be in Tosca in July.

Various Charterhouse projects on the go; one is where to put our urban beehive.  Think we've found the place!  Climb through hidden rafters a you find this hidden flat roof!

Was out on Saturday celebrating two Salsa buddies BDs and was tickled to find a promotional reference to our senior house in the land of Switzer.  Guess they started doing the liqueur after they sent some boys over to establish our monastery in the 14th century.

Wandering near by and thought this photo of the Secret Cinema site to which I've secured two more tickets was looking splendid!

The garden is beginning to bloom and our magnolia tree is rather impressive. That's Brother Peter Day.  We had just returned from our weekly visit to Camden Passage.

Sunday, after a blissful Brazilian cocktail or two with Sis on the South Bank, I attended an interesting interactive performance of Pullman's Grimms Tales in the basement areas of Shoreditch Town Hall.

Which brings us to tonight and a visit to the closest Irish Pub, the Tepperary on Fleet Street. Songs, Guinness and great company!

Cornucopia

Of delights and similars...
One from a week ago.
I have been on a diet...so last Sunday I requested a plain yogurt rather the proffered dessert.  But I did request the decoration and voila....

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My version





















After the lunch I went to Olympia to an Art Fair.  My pal Jon and I were underwhelmed as it all seem so unoriginal and derivative. An exception is in this photo of Jon...the lovely women in a section of paintings were either clothed or not dependant on where you moved in relation to the art work.

 So let's see...while watching the Academy Awards my right ankle started aching.  By Monday night it was excruciatingly painful.  So much so I went to an out of hours GP to see if it was blood poisoning, as I had a few years ago.  It wasn't, I was given a prescription, filled at the 24 hour service at St Pancras and within a day I was fine.  It did give me an opportunity to understand the pain and necessity of using a walking stick as experienced by some of my Brothers.
This mishap prevented me from a few outings but on Thursday there was an invitation from Mother General and the Tyburn Nuns to a ceremony on the restoration of the Tyburn Megillah.

It was a cross denominational occasion and was rather jolly.
I am sure most of you know that what is today the Marble Arch roundabout was for centuries the site of public executions.  The triangular altar piece in the photo is a recreation of the shape of the "Tyburn Tree"....see....

Today I celebrated the lovely sun by meeting friends at Victoria Park for a pic-ca- nic!
Two more photos...our lovely magnolia tree is blooming.....

And our little magnolia bush...wonder if I will be around to see it all grown up?