Kent, Southampton, London

[squirmelia]

I'm in Kent now and am tempted to play amongst the hay bales.
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I watched Before Sunset again recently and am thinking about the scene where Céline says, "Now that we've met again, we can change our memory of that December 16th. It no longer has that sad ending of us never seeing each other again. Right?" and Jesse replies, "Yeah, you’re right. I guess a memory is never finished. As long as you're alive..."

I suppose that's how I'm trying to think at the moment, about Southampton, that my memories of it aren't finished.
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I received the Open House London guide for September 15th and 16th and am trying to decide what to see. Is anyone else intending to go?

Comments

[fluffymark]

Oh yes oh yes! Open House weekend!

Except it's really frustrating on their website map thing to find out what's open. Can't there just be a simple list? Off the top of a few random searches, the Art Deco in Wood Green looks like it's pretty, there's obviously the Neasden Bunker, and theres a strange thing called Village Underground which appears to be decorated abandonded old tube trains, which would be my sort of thing. I'm sure there's a lot more I'd like too, but I need to prod their website a bit more.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I think this might be the 2006 list, but should be fairly similar?
http://www.openhouse.org.uk/london/search/showall.asp

I have the printed booklet, which is easier to look through.

[fluffymark]

oooh that helps a little - but what would be nice would be a brief description - if I don't already know what something is, I have to click on it to find out, and theres *loads*.

ooooh - you can go up the Gherkin!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

You might be able to get the printed version for free from your local library or somewhere similar? (Or buy it or the PDF online.)

Gherkin tends to become fully booked in about 5 minutes after booking opens (probably at 9am on Friday), but I am slightly tempted to try anyway.

[fluffymark]

May as well try booking the Gherkin, just in case, as I've always wondered about going up there. If you do, try grab me a ticket too pretty please - I'm likely to still be in bed at 9am as that's what I do in the mornings.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Sure.. if I manage to get tickets, shall I try to get tickets for as late as possible and not 8am then? :)

[fluffymark]

Strangely, I can often get up earlier at weekends than I do on weekdays. Admittedly that's not going to happen if I've been up partying until 6am, but I don't do that every weekend! Best go for later tickets if possible, but see if you can get them at all first! :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Oh. I thought you always partied until 6am. ;)

[fluffymark]

That's just your bad influence on me, sweetie! ;)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I'm not a bad influence! :P

I booked us tickets. :) It wanted your address as well as mine, but luckily you had filled in my Christmas card poll. I didn't have time to look up your phone number, so I just typed mine for that as well. Didn't quite get the time I wanted, but oh well, got: Sat 15 Sep 3:20 PM.