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Yesterday at the last minute i decided to go to London for the afternoon with 2 very dear friends of mine. I don't know why i called them "dear", that's something i would never say, but the truth is they are DEAR to me. ANYways, it was nice. :o) Since i've finished my work AND I HAVE A HOUSE FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!!! Amazing!! (more about that another day...), i don't have anything i NEED to do. just yet. so, that's how i ended up in London...


...Wondering to Leicester Square to find cheap musical tickets and ending up buying them over the phone direct from theatre (o well!)...



... eating our boots meal deal picnics on the grass in the rose garden of hyde park, lying in the sun...


...having nachos (third time in less than 2 weeks!) and a drink at a very busy Garfunkels...



...sitting in our not-just-at-the-end-of-the-row-but-properly-on-the-edge- discount seats at the Palace Theatre to see BILLY ELLIOT the musical...



...and then catching the train back to Brighto while Jen and Paula stayed the night in London. I seemed to get some allergic reaction on the train and spent whole journey sneezing with eyes running, attracting funny looks from surrounding passengers (sympathy/disgust/annoyance/discomfort?)



'Billy Elliot' was enjoyable but nothing special in all honesty. Like i didn't walk away with the sense i'd been impacted by anything, like i do sometimes from the cinema or theatre. Although to be honest i don'n know how often that happens after a musical. I've only ever seen Les Miserables! I think i prefer the film. Our "restricted view" seats may not have helped and the sound seemed quite bad - often couldn't work out what they were singing (and no, this wasn't because of their geordie accents!). But there were a couple of really good dance scenes which i really enjoyed. So yeh, wouldn't be in a rush to reccommend it, but it's not bad either. Next time, i want to see STOMP...