Local Friends and Thunder
Mar. 12th, 2001 04:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillibetI had a pretty relaxing week. Jason had a cold that kept him in, but I
managed not to get it. My only outing was for lunch with Claudia on
Wednesday. We had a nice meal in the Covent Garden Market and then wandered
all over the area doing various errands.
On Friday evening, Jason and I went over to Barbara's place in Notting Hill
to hear about her trip to Uganda and other recent life developments and to
get our king prawn fried noodle fix from the Park Inn. It was great to see
Barbara and hear about her adventures.
On Saturday I cleaned the house and made Hungarian mushroom soup. We met
Leah at a sushi place we'd noticed while wandering around the West End.
We all arrived early, before Tsukuba opened for dinner at 6pm, so we
wandered through an alley Leah had found with some of the lyrics from "Flesh
Failures," a song from the musical _Hair_, written on the wall. We spent
ten minutes in the Oxfam shop on Drury Lane and both Leah and I found books
to buy. Mine was an Agatha Christie novel I'd somehow missed, _The Big
Four_.
We had a lovely meal and got to hear Leah speak Japanese with our server.
Then we walked down to the Savoy Theater on The Strand. Due to the recent
unpleasantness, they were searching bags, which made getting inside a zoo.
We saw a wonderful production of Oscar Wilde's _The Importance of Being
Earnest_ starring Patricia Routledge (of Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty
Waithropp Investigates) as Lady Bracknell. Those of you who know David Alt
would have found their Algernon very like him. Generally, despite my
quibbles with a few of the actors' choices, I very much enjoyed the
show. It's one of my favorite plays and they did it well. Leah had never
seen or read it and was so impressed by it that we formed a plan to gather a
group to read the play aloud next Friday night.
On Sunday we had Jason's friend, Keir Novik, and his wife, Karen, to lunch.
Keir was one of Jason's fellow interns working in Japan in the summer of
1992. Originally from Vancouver, he did his graduate work at Cambridge,
where he met Karen and they married two years ago. She's a biologist, doing
work on deciphering the function of one of the sections of the human
genome. They were lots of fun. I served the soup I'd made on Saturday
together with various meats and cheeses and a lovely pate of chicken liver
and mushrooms. For dessert we had dried fruits soaked in cinnamon plum tea
and honey over a ginger cake with custard.
They left and we spent the rest of the day watching videos of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, with which we are now fairly obsessed. We took a long break
and I talked to Dave Policar and to steve and then we ordered a pizza and
watched more Buffy.
We had a thunderstorm earlier today and it has rained off and on ever since,
but it had gotten warmer and feels like spring now. (How can we tell? The
rain is warmer!) Tonight we're going to see Euripides' Medea.
managed not to get it. My only outing was for lunch with Claudia on
Wednesday. We had a nice meal in the Covent Garden Market and then wandered
all over the area doing various errands.
On Friday evening, Jason and I went over to Barbara's place in Notting Hill
to hear about her trip to Uganda and other recent life developments and to
get our king prawn fried noodle fix from the Park Inn. It was great to see
Barbara and hear about her adventures.
On Saturday I cleaned the house and made Hungarian mushroom soup. We met
Leah at a sushi place we'd noticed while wandering around the West End.
We all arrived early, before Tsukuba opened for dinner at 6pm, so we
wandered through an alley Leah had found with some of the lyrics from "Flesh
Failures," a song from the musical _Hair_, written on the wall. We spent
ten minutes in the Oxfam shop on Drury Lane and both Leah and I found books
to buy. Mine was an Agatha Christie novel I'd somehow missed, _The Big
Four_.
We had a lovely meal and got to hear Leah speak Japanese with our server.
Then we walked down to the Savoy Theater on The Strand. Due to the recent
unpleasantness, they were searching bags, which made getting inside a zoo.
We saw a wonderful production of Oscar Wilde's _The Importance of Being
Earnest_ starring Patricia Routledge (of Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty
Waithropp Investigates) as Lady Bracknell. Those of you who know David Alt
would have found their Algernon very like him. Generally, despite my
quibbles with a few of the actors' choices, I very much enjoyed the
show. It's one of my favorite plays and they did it well. Leah had never
seen or read it and was so impressed by it that we formed a plan to gather a
group to read the play aloud next Friday night.
On Sunday we had Jason's friend, Keir Novik, and his wife, Karen, to lunch.
Keir was one of Jason's fellow interns working in Japan in the summer of
1992. Originally from Vancouver, he did his graduate work at Cambridge,
where he met Karen and they married two years ago. She's a biologist, doing
work on deciphering the function of one of the sections of the human
genome. They were lots of fun. I served the soup I'd made on Saturday
together with various meats and cheeses and a lovely pate of chicken liver
and mushrooms. For dessert we had dried fruits soaked in cinnamon plum tea
and honey over a ginger cake with custard.
They left and we spent the rest of the day watching videos of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, with which we are now fairly obsessed. We took a long break
and I talked to Dave Policar and to steve and then we ordered a pizza and
watched more Buffy.
We had a thunderstorm earlier today and it has rained off and on ever since,
but it had gotten warmer and feels like spring now. (How can we tell? The
rain is warmer!) Tonight we're going to see Euripides' Medea.
