Another year over; a new one just begun. Thirty-six is such a ‘nothing-special’ age to be. I’m feeling underwhelmed again. No different from yesterday, in fact! Still, one feels one ought to do something special on the day, so we did.
We’ve been tourists today. We took a walk along the Thames to Westminster, took photographs of famous buildings and then spent the afternoon touring around Westminster Abbey – which feels less like a religious building and more like an overcrowded display cabinet for memorial statues and plaques. I fear that I bored Brett senseless explaining some of the intricacies of Heraldry, about which he has never expressed the least interest but which litters the tombs of the great and the good. Despite an officious verger managing to be rude to both of us separately, we had a good day and enjoyed the Abbey, which is quite splendid in so many ways – I wish more of the monastic areas had been open, but apparently you have to come back on specific days to see them.
After Westminster, we headed into the West End for dinner at Kettners. I didn’t fancy haute cuisine, just a smart restaurant with comfortable chairs. Then, after hanging around Soho and Leicester Square for a while, we went to see Keanu Reeves in Constantine. (This is another comic-book hero turned into a movie. The last one we saw was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which was dreadful. This one though was rather good I thought.)
On the whole, it has been a lovely day. The weather was beautiful: sunshine from a clear blue sky and temperatures around 17°C; hopefully the first of many such pleasant days enjoying ourselves this week.
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