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A trip to the Smoke

Friday 4th December John and I embarked from Wakefield Train Station on a jaunt to London. The purpose of this trip was Culture and Knowledge. (oh and it was a cheep deal)

We arrived at 11.30 am and took the Picadilly Line to our hotel in Russell Square, very large and very basic but clean and accommodating. (oh and cheep) on arrival the computers were down so we couldn’t check in, however we left our bags with the every so friendly (ahem) Concierge and toddled off back to the tube – Destination Camden Market.

Well its big is Camden Market, and its busy and very nice to look at in places. However once you have seen a Goth stall, food stall and t-shirt stall you have done most of it. So we went for lunch in a Chinese Buffet restaurant. (which was cheep) then we wondered back into London Stuffed and went to the pub!! I indulged in a G&T.

The evenings entertainment was the Musical Jersey Boys. Excellent show, absolutely brilliant and loved every minute.

Saturday
We were going to the Natural History Museum which is near Knightsbridge so we ‘popped’ into Harrods for a Christmas Bauble. The good news is that I didn’t get thrown out as happened on a previous visit (and a fact I’m quite proud of). The bad news was that the baubles were all the size of footballs and not appropriate for our tiny (I hope) Christmas Tree.
The museum was……………… well…………… hmm……… BORING!! And John and I took this as a sign…….. (and that is the knowledgeable part of the trip. something we learned about ourselves) were really not museum people and ‘looking at stuff’ is really not for us however I appreciate that stuffed animals Pickled snakes and dead insects on a stick have a certain appeal for some people. So after about 3 hours, a time that included having lunch ( Which was not in any way Cheep) we got the tube to Regent Street in order to browse round Hamley’s and other outlets. So there was John, Me and …..25 thousand protesters!! who had a bit of a beef about climate change! however we marched with them for a bit (about 200 yards I think). Along with those 25 thousand was the other four million who had come out Christmas shopping! So we quickly took our leave and went back to the Hotel.

This was when I decided to read the Gidions Bible left in the room……….. what a shocker that book is. Porn filth smut and every kind of sin. Don’t get me going about Lot and his daughters! What a pair of sexual deviants they were.

Went out for Dinner at an Indian Buffet (they do like their buffets do them there southerners) back to the pub then watched X-Factor in the hotel room (hey we know how to live the high life)

Sunday had a brief trip round Covent Garden then back to the station and home

The most memorable part of the trip ……………… the text reply from Stephen after, in religious mode, I asked him to take the dog out

MY TEXT
And God said. Take thine animals out to relieve themselves or thy will be punished as a sinner by thy mother and thy father. And Stephen did relieve thine dogs and all was well with the world

HIS REPLY
And thas said get Fu*ked

what can you do eh???