Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden's Blog

This week I took advantage of my midweekend™ by joining a friend for a tour of Charing Cross underground station.

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Yesterday was unseasonably warm and sunny, and coincided with my non-working day, so I sacked off all other plans to clean the flat, write my novel etc and went to Hastings.

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It was a travel documentary by the delightful Joanna Lumley that made us think of having a short break in Gibraltar, and she did not steer us wrong.

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On Friday (the thirteenth!) I headed to the Cinema Museum in Kennington, a former chapel crammed with film memorabilia, for, in the immortal words of Richard O’Brien, a science fiction double feature picture show.

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Saturday saw me at the BFI, meeting my friend Hannah for a screening of the newly-restored Fifth Doctor story Warriors of the Deep.

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The weekend before last was ScotiaCon, Scotland's furry convention held in Glasgow. In contrast to last year's epic road trip via south Wales, this time I flew from Gatwick.

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There's a new stage play of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. I went with a friend on Saturday, having booked for January on the grounds that we'd need something to look forward to.

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On Wednesday, my day off coincided with 1) the only good weather of the week and 2) a bike club ride 3) with a start point less than a minute from my home. Rude not to.

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I meant to go for a swim yesterday morning but I woke up, thought 'nah', made myself a coffee and put the electric blanket on and got back into bed and the next thing I knew it was 11. These things happen.

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On Thursday I did something I'd been meaning to do for ages, and went to the monthly improv class run by a colleague who very generously does it for no reward other than her love of it. It takes place after work in one of the ground floor meeting-rooms.

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