Sordid Blog

A Thursday morning with no teaching must needs require a trip to Regent’s Park, yes?  As I sit, I’m being regarded by an egret, this one a dark and mottle-throated heron, who has now noticed a lady heron stop by, his neck has gone low, his chest and body made full, the meeting croak and [...]

London Tube Strike in effect all day — time to try overground transport!  After class — Paddington & Mary Poppins — Rick, Amy, Clevatrice, Celestine, and I meet the #15 on Edgware Rd to St. Paul’s — such a lofty goal!  The roads were a mess, one car packed after the other all the way [...]

Tuesday begins as a day of infinite promise — what could be bad about seeing Peter Pan in Kensington Garden, after all? This truly was the trip/excursion that my whole three weeks in London would hang on … The rest of the day — a fleeting Tube ride to Baron’s Court to walk around outside [...]

I’d thought Saturday to be a slow day for recuperation, but then I got excited to go to the West End area to see Daniel Boys signing his new CD, so the day was on!  Rick, Anna, and I left early … we were already going to see Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia that night … so [...]

After morning class, a walk with Anna down Edgware Rd to Hyde Park and round to Kensington Gardens. We had the loveliest time walking together, chatting.  But the first look of east Hyde, across Bayswater Rd, the wide, flat, treeless expanse stirred a quiet pain in my heart, memories of last year in Hyde, and [...]

Tuesday morning, week one, we leave early for Kew Gardens.  The sun has been almost unbearable … how can we be in London with so much blue sky and sun? In fact, several of us got a little bit of a sunburn on the boat to Kew.  Yes, the boat!  Brent encouraged us all to [...]

Susie just shared with me a clip of the “Greatest American Hero” William Katt singing “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin … who knew?

I really cannot believe that in just a few days I have to return to the States!  There are moments when it seems I only just go over here, that it’s simply not possible that we’re already 2.5 weeks down, that we’ve seen just about everything, walked our legs off, worn blisters on toes and [...]

At this point, you dear readers may be a bit sick of theatre reviews, but week two in London has been all about theatre, so that’s what you’re getting. Thursday night = Midsummer Night’s Dream @ the Globe Theatre in Southwark. While the Globe stands far far too close to the Thames to [...]

We switched some serious gears on Wednesday night to go see Avenue Q at the Noel Coward theater on the edge of Soho. While I have listened to the CD so much that I know the words quite by heart, I had never seen this production and this is the one “West End” big [...]