Monday and Tuesday’s Grateful List.

Today I am grateful to Leigh Passfield. Leigh told me about Highgrove Garden. Highgrove is the private residence of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire. Since 1980 when the Prince of Wales first arrived at Highgrove, His Royal Highness has devoted much energy to transforming the gardens around the house, which are renowned as some of the most inspiring and innovative in the United Kingdom.

David hired a car and we drove out to Tetbury. I am so grateful for Goggle Maps! We got to our destination with no fighting. A good start to the day. Highgrove is not on the map anywhere so we had emailed instructions about how to get there. They included go to the end of the brick wall and turn right into the unmarked lane way. I felt like we were in a Mission Impossible movie!

The gardens were beautiful and I cannot share how they looked because we had to leave our phones and camera in the car. This was the beautiful box our tickets arrived in a number of weeks ago.

Tuesday we spent visiting Connaught Village, The Serpentine Gallery and The Victoria and Albert Museum and I had my first celebrity sighting. I spoke to Geoffrey Rush in the Serpentine Gallery. He looked wild and a little bit mad.

We had a lovely lunch at Albasto and ate Empanadas. We were sitting next to a place called Saint Aymes which is a gorgeous chocolate shop. A photo shoot was going on –

These girls looked so beautiful.

In the evening we had dinner at The Ivy in London before going to see our first London Show – Bat Out of Hell.

Photo courtesy of sbnn.co.uk .

We sat at the bar at the Ivy. The food was beautiful and fresh and delicious. The service was exemplary and it was efficient and friendly. Bat out of Hell was fabulous music in a very groovy theatre called The Dominion Theatre. The story line of Bat Out of Hell was about Strat, the young leader of the rebellious gang “The Lost” who falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the tyrannical ruler of post – apocalyptic Obsidian. It was a fabulous rock opera!

https://youtu.be/–w_UMJYgMQ

Until next time