Late night whining, I mean, shopping

Mutterings continued.

Coles was full of old people and mothers with school kids sulking because they couldn't have chocolate cereal. "It has no nutritional value!" said one to her sulking daughter. Said brat ran off and brought back a huge box of puffed rice. Talk about no nutritional value!

Funny!

Had dinner with the usual suspects last night at Scarb. One of the rugby teams must have been staying at Observation City, or whatever it's called this week, as there was a large police presence and we saw a lot of young men with no necks on a bus.

Today's this time last year:

London, day 2. Cold but dry. Visited Forbidden Planet in Oxford St in the morning and bought a couple of LOTR posters and some other stuff. I found a huge cyber cafe which used tokens in a machine thingie. Very high tech and v. confusing.

Visited the British Museum and had a good look at the Egyptian collection. Then lunch in the courtyard and a browse through the shops.

The Reading Room has been moved from inside the Museum to the
Great Court and it's stunning!!

Caught the tube to Waterloo and called into the Royal National (or just The National as it's now known) to see if they had any copies of McKellen's Richard III. No luck. I'd seen it in the RSC giftshop but it was about 20 Pounds ($60!) which I thought was a bit steep. Ended up not getting a copy of it in the UK at all.

Walked across the river to the BBC Centre and had a mooch through their bookshop. They were selling copies of the BBC Shakespeares at 25 quid a pop in very cheap video boxes and photocopied covers (no pictures). I asked if they were going to sell the DVDs at all but apparently they've lost the rights, or something. The DVDs are available from the States but they're hellishly expensive. I wanted a copy of Jacobi's Richard 2 but they were out.