Phil and I went to see Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre last night, and it was superb. The singing and the choreography of the cast was amazing, especially the four main leads, and the sets were simple yet atmospheric. Ewan McGregor and Jane ‘the psycho secretary from Ally McBeal’ Krakowski did not disappoint.
Well worth the price of the tickets, and the suntrapped heat of the theatre, all rounded off with tasty Japanese at Zipangu between Chinatown and Leicester Square.
I’ve read their reasons why*, and I’m currently considering whether I commit to paying the annual cost of fotopic’s premium service – currently
*Adverts on Free Galleries 13th June 2005 by joel
OK, we tried to avoid it for as long as possible, but starting today we will be putting Google ads on the front page of free galleries. Ads are kept as targeted as possible within the context of your gallery, and will appear either as side miniboxes, or at the bottom of the index depending on how your gallery is configured. Premium users don’t get adverts at all, period.
It’s not been a decision we’ve taken lightly, but we do need something to bring in revenue from the free galleries. It was either that or start to remove features and reduce bandwidth/diskspace, and we figure this is the least painful version.
We’re just back from a fab party to celebrate Yoz and Bob’s civil wedding. The ceremony was at Camden Town Hall, followed by refreshing drinks at Smithy’s Wine Bar and it was a chance to catch up with lots of friends that I’d not seen for ages. It was so hot – still – that Phil and I just had to nip home to change out of our posh outfits and into more chilled summertime togs.
Here are my photos; whilst there are two sets accumulating on flickr.
And come hometime, we could walk – which brought an opportunity to take lots of gleaming shots along Goswell Road and the Barbican.
A lovely end to a lovely day, that started with our first breakfast on the roof terrace (check out those runner beans!!), and winding up with take out curry. No response from Spice Corner (uh-oh), so we tried Chawol, which turned out to be very, very tasty…
Phil and I went to the Barbican’s Balcony bistro for dinner last night – it’s above the Waterside café and has a lovely terrace dining area looking out over the lake. It’s not cheap (and the food was OK, but not great) – about £10 for a main, £5 for a starter, £5 for a pud, and the wine by the glass was pricey. But a fab summer-time location, and off the beaten track.
Last night’s summer party was very much fun! Boiling hot on the first day of summer’s first heatwave, well organised, a really good live band and a disco that was prepared to play S Club 7. Dodgems too!
The only fly in the ointment were the over-aggressive and unnecessarily rude security staff.