I've just been to London for a few days. Had a lovely time meeting up with some people I haven't seen for a while. Plus there was all sorts of drama... but more of that later.

Firstly, WTF are they thinking. I was in a pub in Putney and for some reason they have this on the wall:

Now, I'm all for art in public places but a painting if a dog's willy is not really what I want to see when I'm eating/drinking/awake.

Don't worry though - this was a pub and after a while everyone was drunk enough to forget about the dog and to take part in a game of 'stack things up on the table'.

That's red sauce at the bottom, mustard and salt (or pepper). Who needs jenga!

Anyway, having had a lovely afternoon and evening, the next day I had a few hours to kill so my mate Louise and I went to the Science Museum (to look at the weather section which is good but far too small) and then to the Natural History Museum.... WHERE I NEARLY DIED! It's true. I was on the escalator, ascending to the stars, when there was a huge grinding, crunching and metal screeching noise. And then the escalator stopped suddenly. Turned out that the step at the top had sort of come loose or something... not what you want to see. I had to hop over the top step to avoid falling.. ooo. ... several feet to the floor. Eeeeek. Still, they had a spinning coffee table which demonstrates the Coriolis effect at the top so it was worth it.

And finally, to kill a bit of time, I walked from Liverpool Street station to Waterloo, via:

So there you go. Back home now and enjoying this Easter weekend. Still makes me laugh that we have a holiday to celebrate the day Jesus hatched out of a chocolate egg...