Ok, first things first - - Bill is back in London Town. Celebratory dinner at the Duke of Kendal pub.
Saturday I hunted down several more book benches on the City Trail.
This one is Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. Since it's a book about football, most Americans are more familiar with the baseball movie version with my personal friend Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore.
In the same park was Peter Pan. I have to amend by last book bench post….it turns out that the bench I thought was Peter Pan was really just a generic JM Barrie bench. That explains the lack of Pan-ness. This is the one all about Peter.
These benches were right by of one of my favorite London landmarks - St Paul's Cathedral.
As was this one of course - Mary Poppins. Feed the birds - tuppence a bag!
Bridget Jones.
Charles Dickens.
I love a beheading! Especially when someone holds the severed head by the hair.
On today's book walk there were a lot more people sitting on the benches. There are signs next to the benches explaining that they are art - not seats. But people don't read. There was a woman on the Bridget Jones bench who sat there defiantly while a crowd of people were gathered - all of us wondering why she wasn't noticing us and getting the hell off the bench. Another woman finally asked her to move and we all swarmed in like paparazzi on a celebrity with a wardrobe malfunction.
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This woman didn't seem to notice that I was shooting her bench so I finally had to ask her to move as well but she was very gracious about it. I haven't read Brick Lane although I have it in my TBR.
This seemed like an odd place for a bench.
This was the Wisden Cricketer's Almanac. I haven't read that either and it's not in my TBR.
Where was Bill during all this you might ask?
At Ted Baker Grooming being pampered.
Coincidentally he is currently reading Fever Pitch. So we had to go back for a quick photo op (Since I complaned about this earlier I want to add that he was off the bench in a matter of seconds!)
It's great to have Bill back - especially now that he is groomed.
3 comments:
The dog who took care of the kids in Peter Pan was a Newfoundland, FYI (Nana).
I would like to see Bill recreate the last pic of him on the book bench reading the book that is on the book bench as a painting - you following me?
Also, I bought Dima that book way back when and I don't think he ever read it. hmmm
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