Meeting friends

It's been a fabulous weekend

James McAvoy is not just a pretty boy who has been chosen for big blockbusters by the likes of Angelina Jolie. He showed he could act in "Atonement" (I hated him in The Scottish Play a few years ago) But he was brilliant in "The Ruling Class" which is currently in the final previews before it opens to the press at Trafalgar Studios shortly,  It's a hilarious and unmissable satire which is as relevant now as it was in the sixties when it was apparently popular,  (I didn't remember it, but one of the friends we met for lunch today certainly did,)

Just in Drummond Street, nestling behind Euston Station, there is a superb vegetarian South Indian restaurant called Chutneys.  I've raved about it before - and I think I've blipped it.  It's very friendly, wonderful food and ridiculously cheap (for anywhere not just central London)

Two more friends joined us before we dashed for the train to return to Birmingham International. A great (but brief) get together.

Talking to the train manager this afternoon, as it was quiet and very civilised, unlike Friday, we learned what had been behind the chaos.  Apparently a female passenger was hit by a train at Penkridge station on Thursday evening.  A following train had tried to avoid adding to the situation and in the process had ripped out the overhead wires.  All the rolling stock was in the wrong place - and all the staff had just as bad a day as we had on Friday.  Makes you think !