It was a beautiful day here in Londontown.  It’s been fining up nicely with cold temps in the morning, but warm in the midday/afternoon.  With weather like this, we would have been silly to waste it moping around the house.  So we took the new camera for a walk.  We dawdled down towards Canary Wharf, which is surprisingly close to my house (about a 20min walk, if we were walking properly).  It still amazes me how small London actually is, but how long it takes to get anywhere!

We wandered around the shops at Canary Wharf for a while, had some dinner at Nandos (haven’t done that in ages) and then headed back to Whitechapel to see a movie.  We caught the D3 bus from Canary – Whitechapel, and I cannot believe how long it took.  Not only did we have to wait 20 minutes for it to come, we spent 40 mins on the bus, 15 of it stuck in traffic! Grr, what a waste of time! We would have been faster to walk!  That’s the other crazy thing.  London may be small, but it takes forever to get anywhere!

Anyway, we saw The Boat that Rocked which had a fantastic cast.  Not just with Bill Nighy, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but also the very fantastic Rhys Darby, who was playing a character not too dissimilar from Murray. But we loved him anyway.  Set in the 1960s about a pirate radio station on a freighter in the North Sea, I really enjoyed it – definitely a good laugh.

The view from our veranda

Current Mood: creative

Tags: Anthony, Canary Wharf, Flight of the Conchords, Movies, Photography, Regents Canal, Rhys Darby, Tower Hamlets Borough