London departed

Fairly good day in London, all told. I arrived at my sister's at about 12.20, and met her friend Zoe, a paediatrician relocated from Paris to London, but originally from Dublin; she's homesick for Paris and deplores the heavy drinking culture of the UK, particularly among women. She was a really nice person, and we had a brief discussion about digital cameras; my sister also demonstrated TGW.

I then headed over to Bloomsbury to meet pennypaperbrain, who ushered me to her "spiritual home", CCK. The basement has been added since I was last there and it's a lot more comfortable than the upstairs part of the shop, despite the alarming steps down to the basement. Penny is overworked and much-wrought, and it's telling that when she is somewhere that she can't do any work, like a cafe, she wants to go to sleep.

I was even given a CCK loyalty card on my way out, but I deferred indefinitely my entering the prize draw. Penny explained to staff (who looked condescendingly amused) that I probably wouldn't be interested in any of the prizes, although I could of course give them to her if I did win.

Memeing

Acquired from wonderwelsh:


Your romance is more of a love that needs to bloom
within, just like Hedwig of Hedwig and the
Angry Inch. The film features an East German
transsexual who is seeking her "other
half" after constant betrayal. You must
love yourself before you can need another.
You're starting to realize this, along with the
fact that you don't need a significant other to
be a complete person. Your "other
half" has been inside you all along.


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I'd not have associated myself with this film but I do see why my answers led it to me! EDIT 13.55Not that there is a romance at the moment, unless you count the last one.

Ghost Light

In trying times I sometimes find Doctor Who a good comfort blanket. I've had 'Ghost Light' on DVD for weeks now and not watched very much of it; the fact I ordered the 'Lost in Time' set in the early hours, having seen it on sale both at 10th Planet in Barking and The Who Shop at East Ham, spurred me to watch some of my earlier purchase. (I still haven't watched The Others, however, bought months ago.

Today's achievement has been sweeping up the leaves in front of my garage before my 90-year-old neighbour Bill sweeps them up for me, thereby avoiding embarrassment.