It Was Diana's Day Off,

and as I had to do some shopping in Bromley,

we accompanied each other on our way out,

a bit cloudy but warm,

at the Foxgrove Road entrance to the park we separated, Diana was off to Kent House station to meet Kai, it was a girls day out in London,

and this is where they met, the Corinthia, for afternoon tea,

I have never been there myself,

but it certainly looks nice,

Diana,

and Kai,

take a pose,

in the main foyer,

all set, then it is time to begin, I will not caption every photograph as I am running short of time for my bus and trains to visit Duncan today,

but as you may guess the girls enjoyed every moment of the afternoon tea,

complimentary cakes to go,

all set, time to go, the afternoon tea came to £175.00 which included a unheard of 15% service charge, plus 20% VAT on the total, but Diana assures me it was worth every penny for the experience,

then across a few streets,

to Trafalgar Square,

and the National Gallery,

to Leicester Square and you guessed it, Jollibee, 

to pick up a takeaway, after which the girls made their way home,

back to myself, I made my way past the park,

to the 227 bus stop,

opposite Beckenham's Town or Public Hall,

I was soon in Bromley,

to a fairly quiet High Street,

it was not market day,

so very few stalls,

this is where I was headed, Lakeland to exchange our CO2 cylinder, I would normally have dropped off our spent Nespresso coffee pods, but the stall in the Glades has now closed for good, so into the bin with them in future, the nearest Nessprsso drop off point to us I have found our after telephoning Nessprsso, is in Canary Wharf, which is over 11 miles away, I am all for doing the green thing, but making a return journey of 22 miles would create more pollution than the pods would save!

back to the bus stop, the flowers on the lamp posts in Bromley looking nice,

I just hope I beat the rain clouds behind them home!

opposite the bus stop the 201, which as the legend suggests,

was once the Gatsby,

off of the bus in Beckenham and into Lidl,

the flowers there looking nice,

especially the roses,

I had beaten the rain clouds home, as it happens it did not rain,

I try to stay out of the kitchen, for myself it is a death trap, yesterday Diana showed me how to heat up some sausage rolls to snack on whilst she was at work, I carefully wrapped my fingers in a kitchen cloth, and missed a bit, why does such a small burn hurt so much? note to self, again, keep out of the kitchen!

speaking of hurt, the wasp sting I received last Sunday at the airshow is at last going down,

Diana arrived home in the late afternoon, in the evening Diana snacked on her Jollibee as we watched a Midsomer Murder and a New Tricks, after which we were off to bed.

Although It Was A Bank Holiday,

Diana had to go into work,

and it was no holiday for myself, after Diana left it was out with the hoover and cobweb duster, househusband chores finished, 

in the afternoon I watched Persuasion, what a delightful film, which was based on the last novel completed by Jane Austen, it was published on December 20, 1817, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818, the story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was persuaded by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain Wentworth, both single and unattached, meet again after a seven-year separation, setting the scene for many humorous encounters as well as a second, well-considered chance  at love and marriage for Anne in her second bloom, I just love the way through the film Anne talked to you, the viewer, as though you were her best friend, that only she could see and talk to, after my evening meal a real horror,

Pandorum, scary dairy in the extreme, in a spaceship is carrying New World colonists, a couple of crewmembers wake early to find they are food for, well you will have to watch it to see! a very well made but underrated scary sci-fi, 

for my late evening film Downfall, I watched it once before in 2010 an decided to watch it a again, the story is introduced and ends with Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge of the last days in the bunker and the madness of the last days of the war, Downfall, a harrowing, though well made semi-documentary, it is in German with English subtitles, at the end of which Diana arrived home, so it was feet up for a chat and a coffee as we watched a New Tricks, before we were off to bed.