Workers of the world unite............

Yesterday was spent on the trail of old Karl with 2 comrades, Bob Treasure and Sue Brand, from Warrimoo on their Grand Tour. We met up in Baker Street where they are staying (Sherlock Holmes Museum just round the corner) and headed off to Highgate Cemetery as part of the pilgrimage....what a wonderful place...so neglected and overgrown....and crumbling stone angels everywhere (not on Marxist graves though).

Then, after a lovely lunch in the park across the road with squirrels aplenty, we set off to Soho for  an old abode of the Marx family in Dean Street (once very down at heel but now quite 'effluent') and then a couple of streets away to the site of the Red Lion pub (still a pub but with a name change) where Marx and Engels lectured upstairs circa 1874 and wrote the action programme for the Communist League which was the published in 1848 as the Communist Manifesto and of course as they say the rest is history!
Then off to central London via the tube and a brief visit to the National Gallery and a good Thai meal and a play Samuel Beckett's ' Krapp's Last Tape'...a rather short and depressing monologue starring the amazing Michael Gambon (a rather expensive 50 minutes but a rare treat to see the man in action...and 3 rows from the front).

Also this week Kew Gardens in full Autumn colour full of very busy squirrels adding to their winter hoard and back to the British Museum just because I can and certainly can't when I'm home......

This is the last blog as the plane leaves tomorrow evening and there will not be too much more to record...thanks for your comments and for putting up with me the last few weeks...looking foward to seeing you all again and for life to return to normal and for a change of clothes as I have been wearing the same 3 shirts and pairs of jeans the whole 10 weeks!

Adios,au revoir and good bye....Kath xo