Woke up at 5.45. Blood Pressure 135/74 Pulse 77 Slept well. Feel fit. Still have pain in my lower left side. Hurts when I breathe deeply.
Spent about an hour flicking over all 135 stations.(The sex channels start at 136) Watched two very old Hollywood Movies. Very crude acting and directing but interesting in its own way. Some outdoor long shots of cowboys riding horses up and down gullies. Some indoor shots of faces talking to each other. Hamming it up to excess. What happened to these actors? How did they end up in Hollywood? What where their lives like? Got distracted by watching a lecture from The London Museum on the lead up to the Franklands War. This was on the Parliamentary Channel. Quickly becoming my favourite channel. The lecture went for about an hour and I watched every minute. The Professor giving the lecture was from the Gresham College. Please Google Gresham College and read what it does. I'm ashamed we have nothing like this in Australia and are never likely to have. Very competent and balanced lecture. This is the London like I used to live in and love. I voluntarily went often to Lectures at the Commonwealth Institute just like this. No doubt I could have gone to the London Museum and seen it live if I knew how. Very detailed assessment by a visiting Professor. Serious people being taken seriously. Very enjoyable. Very English. Left home approx 10.15 on account of the washing not being finished. Cloudy day but mostly sunny. It did rain once during the day when we were waiting for a train. Sun was shining brightly when we got home. We spent most of the day on trains. We did the total loop around London via the aboveground system. Not a lot to see unfortunately. Occasionally The Shard would come into view. Went over the river below Tower Bridge. We did pass through West Brompton which is very different to when I was here 46 years ago. We had to change trains a few times but we made it back to where we started - West Hamstead. We walked along the main street of West Hamstead before we started on the Aboveground train.. A bit more upmarket than Preston Road. No public toilets in the West Hamstead Library. Had sandwiches from Tesco's for lunch. We then went to The Wallace Collection. Free Entry. As usual heater turned up to eleven. Lots of paintings but not all good. Lots of brass ware and pottery. Lots of miniatures. Lots of 15th, 16th, 17th,18th Century stuff. More medieval armour than at the Tower OF London. Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Gainsborough etc - the list goes on forever. Most famous is The Laughing Cavalier. Once the family started collecting they must have found it hard to stop. Furniture, sculpture, - lots of everything. You can do this when you are rich. All very worthwhile but a lot of art from that period is made to order stuff by people whose job it was to do this type of thing. We have to discern when commerce ends and art starts. Not all galleries in London do this. We discovered that not all Metropolitan Line Trains stop at Preston Road because we nearly got on one. They are called fast trains and leave from Baker Street. Can I reiterate my pleasure that English girls still wear stockings. Its so nice to be able to look at attractive legs again instead of the acres of naked flesh we are forced to look at in Australia. Acres of flesh that has been shaved and scraped to within an inch of its life I may add. I think Australian Girls believe that wearing stockings is something degrading. The sex war goes on. When will it end? Never in Australia I suspect. Blood Pressure 143/76 Pulse 76. We had salad and Afghan finger food from our friendly local Afghan Trader. Watched the 5 minute Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Green Party. This is something that has not changed in 45 years. I can definitely remember Labours in 1970. It had Harry H Corbett talking to the camera and affecting a bit of a Harold Steptoe accent. Thankfully some things never change. Although admittedly the Greens broadcast tonight was much more sophisticated. The film was properly directed and took the form of all the current Political figures being children in the playground and exagerating their weaknesses. The Greens will step in and save the day ending. They did say that one of their policies was to make all daily fares equal no matter what distance you traveled. At least that's what I thought she said. Will they simply average all fares from the 5 zones and pick the mean price? Could be a sensible policy but hard to see it universally accepted. Greedy inner city people will not want to subsidise fringe city dwellers. Not much to watch on TV. Jenny watched Grantchester. Last programme and The Vicar was drinking himself into oblivion. I went to sleep about 9.15. Listened to The World Programme on my earphones.
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