Wednesday, February 09, 2005

One Night Stands are alive and well and living in Bedford!

...'ping', 'ping', 'ping','ping', and then it fell silent and the children realised that perhaps they should have given it some water...

Welcome to the special edition of the blog...

Travellers Tales - A Day out with Neil and Lisa
The wondrous journey began on the train as I looked into Lisa's eyes and saw the little girl inside, grinning and playing with pigtails flying in the wind, Lisa was excited and I was determined to give her one of the best days I could manage before time runs out. We arrived in London and decamped over to the Emankment tube station, we then made two mistakes, 1) trusting my intuition and 2) asking a policeman for directions to the Tate Modern. After having walked about half a mile in the wrong direction we returned to the spot from whence we came and started again. Our journey took us in the Queens footsteps over Jubilee bridge taking in tremendous views of the london eye etc..

We walked along the South Bank taking in the OXO tower and stopped off for a coffee in the National film theatre cafe...this was a thrilling place full of people talking about treatments of screenplays etc...mind you with this you always get your loud tossers hanging about, the table next to us was trying to talk as loudly as possible about possibly hiring a stunt man to get run over and whether there should be a romantic daliance etc...I nearly leaned over and asked if that meant the leading lady was going to get fucked but i withheld my tongue and Lisa laughed sweetly with her eyes, saying to me "who are these cunts?"

We carried on our journey and reached the Tate Modern, home of the weird and truly wonderful, the most eclectic collection of art that has ever been put under one roof...apart from the Saatchi warehouse which was a big big mistake! Floor upon floor of Rothko's and Pollocks and Dali's...they even had Rodin's "Kiss" on display which was sublime to see in reality, it was a truly moving moment for me. Lisa was awe inspired and we wondered from gallery to gallery being involved, disturbed, emoted or simply scared at what was put in front of us. I tried not to cry as we entered the Rothko room with the "Seagram Murals", its a beautiful and dark place for me and really tells people something about the tortured soul that he became. We then wandered down to the bookstore which I could have spent a fortune in but luckily didn't!

Onward onward onward we walked to London Bridge tube (totally missing the closer one I was looking for!) and went back to central London, a place that comes alive with the lights and night freaks. London is great for walking around, its vibrant, noisy, stinks of piss, dirty but its atmospheric. We found the Chinese buffet 'Mr Wu's' in Leicester Square and Lisa ate...and ate a bit more whilst i was very daintily sipping on my 2 diet cokes...before wolfing down two double cheeseburgers from M********s later on. Ready for the theatre we set off...

The Apollo theatre is one of Sir Andrews property portfolio (for a while!) and its a beautiful old theatre. We arrived and outside was a big hoarding of Patrick Stewart, and Joshua Jackson so i lined Lisa up in front of it to take her piccy, I think she was a bit shy at this point because we were being watched, do i care no...you can see the result below , I personally think its a fabby picture. I tried to get Lisa to take mine ...I won't be asking Lisa to take my photograph again...
The play was fantastically poignant and very funny, both actors were great and we actually got to see Joshua Jackson in just a scimpy pair of pants. After the play we were on a special do where we got to have a Q and A session with the director but we got back in there and Patrick and Joshua were there too...so we have both been close enough to spit at the lovely pair!

It was time to go back to Bedford and after a safe and fast journey home, I bid my goodnights to Lisa and trundled up the lonely 15 flights to remember a day of fun, enlightenment, laughs, food and love...it was a good memory day today and as the farmer says at the end of 'Babe', "That'll do pig, that'll do"...

...the mission had failed because of one thing, Howard had bought crutchless pants instead of tights...



5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have excelled yourself today, very interesting, I felt I was there with you. Do you mind explaining the title! Is it true? Are you sure about the location? Bedford is such a sleepy town! Gx

Anonymous said...

Message for Lauren........ don't bother with the books, or if you are going to buy them, read them before you loan them to your friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you both had a brill time, quite envious xxxx Lauren

Anonymous said...

well you captured the day brilliantly the only comment i want to make is that while in the tate modern and Neil turned to me and said its a great pick up place you can meet the man of your dreams - i winked at the guy coming up the escalator and then Neil said the immortal words if your gay and my dreams were shattered lol still Neils weren`t xxx It was a lovely day must be repeated often xxxx

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