Entertainment, misc

Amusing evening the weekend before last.  A colleague had organised a murder mystery evening, so a bunch of us signed up and went along.  We and the usual quiz team formed a table of six, of which I think there were eight in all.  A number of colleagues had also produced a very fine buffet supper, and the clanking of bottles as the steady stream of fellow hobbyists arrived would have done credit to a rugby club curry night.  The action was done by three professional actors, with members of the audience playing a number of the bit parts: Dawn gave a fine performance of a somewhat Margot Leadbetter rôle for our table, and some surprising talent emerged from the others!  At the end, we were told that we would have to perform our solution to the mystery, and your obedient servant was greatly affronted that his nicely turned limerick didn't win the prize.  Oh well, that's show business, I suppose. 

Staying with matters theatrical, we went up to London on Friday for a most enjoyable performance of Kate's new play, Magna Carta, which was performed as a dramatised reading in the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside.  That was the second performance, the first having been given the night before at All Hallows by the Tower.  We're hoping for more dates soon: see the Historia web site, which also has links to the main 800th anniversary web site.

The Friday night travelling experience is unedifying, however.  On the way up, a woman in the next bay spilled a glass of vodka down her shirt.  And that was on the way to a girly night out.  On the way back, a young man behind us hiccoughed noisily all the way from Orpington to Hildenborough, where he staggered off the train, presumably to park his evening's intake over the fence.  Driving home from Tonbridge, we followed someone in a Ford Fiesta that nearly hit us as we joined the A26 by cutting in far too sharply.  From there to the Common, said Fiesta was all over the road, coming close to hitting kerbs and bollards on several occasions. 

Off to London again in an hour or so to meet Canadian cousins for lunch.  Two I haven't seen since the 1980s and the other I haven't met before.  Should be fun!  Report anon.