So, I'm back from holiday. Bar being pissed off by Eurostar so far refusing to give me a refund when my train was over an hour and a half late, it was good. The Hague's quite nice - the Gemeentee Museum, which has lots of early and quite moody Mondrian, as well as an interactive, hands-on thing in the basement which looked excellent, if requiring more extensive knowledge of Dutch, is particularly good, and there was lots of good, although rather unfortunately pricey, eating. Scheveningen is kind of like Blackpool, but if people had decided to visibly spend lots of money on it without altering in the slightest what it does: all cheap and cheerful, that not only avoids being grotty, but looks positively clean. Delft is pretty, and not a total tourist trap. Also, I saw several herons whilst in a Western European capital city, which has to qualify me for something. Anyway, normally obtuse and philosophical posting will be resumed after I have managed to sort out all the stuff I went away to put off, and all the other stuff that has, as is the way, accumulated in the interim. Movie thing via
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Apparently I'm Mr Smith Goes to Washington. Never even heard of such a film...
If you went to Richmond more you'd see loads of them; I know it doesn't really count as London, but according to the boroughs as created in the 1963 shake-up of London's local government it is one (or maybe I need to revise the Herbert Commission)
Richmond has a Surrey postcode, ergo, it is not London.
It may have a Surrey postcode but it was designated a borough under the GLC which is, despite some porblems with the amalgamation of boroughs, one of the most accurate representations of London after the inter-war urban sprawl. I'm Apocalypse Now, this concerns me somewhat.
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