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our london adventure: part two

more wandering around london town, with occasional jaunts elsewhere...

10 June 2008

Living Room Set

Each summer, the National Theatre brings a different kind of "greenspace" to the front of its concrete building, and this year the turf living-room made me smile when I spotted it for the first time as I walked across Waterloo Bridge:

today was 10.6.08

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beyond london

what can you do in london without spending a single pence?

*acquire some new furniture
*be in both hemispheres at the same time
*be outwitted by the sidewalk
*be surrounded by butterflies
*become a puppeteer
*bring home some new books
*browse in a beautiful travel bookshop
*check out ingenious automata
*cheer on the pancake racers
*climb a 13th-century church tower
*crowd onto Millennium Bridge with classical musicians and a conductor
*cruise on the Thames, taking in the sunset
*cuddle farm animals in the shadow of a financial centre
*dance with the ballerinas
*do a double-take at anthropomorphic skyscrapers in a tube station
*dodge horses in Tate Modern
*drink coffee in a sunny garden
*eat donuts while standing inside a 55-foot-tall sculpture
*eat some performance art
*enjoy secret art
*experience sensory deprivation in the name of art
*explore artists' studios in a church
*find grass where there was once concrete
*find yourself in the role of Alice
*flip through magazines and sip delicious coffee
*gaze at St Paul's Cathedral through a 300-year-old protected view
*gaze over the City from a 23rd-floor terrace
*get caught up in piano
*get up-close with the artefact that enabled 19th-century scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs
*go on a Chelsea pub walk
*go on a guided walk of the City
*go to a writer's talk held at the organization credited with coining the term "sustainability"
*go to an in-store performance
*have a brush with wildlife
*have a cigarette hand you a leaflet
*have a day in the country
*have a picnic in a 300-year-old apple orchard
*have a transport official instruct you to litter
*have brunch with the London Sinfonietta
*have coffee at the Danish ambassador's house
*have tea and biscuits in Trafalgar Square
*have tea with the evil twins
*hear an Academy-Award-nominated writer speak
*hear an amazingly talented woman read from her latest book
*hear Beethovan sonatas in a church
*hear music in the only Elizabethan church remaining in London
*hope that sword-swallower knows what he's doing
*join an evening parade
*join in on bonfire night
*journey through Christmas past
*learn about your neighbourhood
*let a blue-badge guide lead you around the City
*let light and sound transfix you
*lick an ice-cream cone
*listen to a prominent architect and then fill up on food and drink
*make a statue move
*make shadow puppets with a twist
*meet a gorilla in Notting Hill
*pat a pelican
*play a gas organ
*play on the slides in a former power station
*play voyeur to people's discarded lives
*pledge allegiance to Tesco
*putter down a canal on a narrowboat
*receive wishes of good luck from a Palme-d'Or -winning director
*relax in an outdoor living room made of artificial turf
*rest on a bench in an outdoor installation by the only woman to receive the Pritzker Prize
*reveal your secrets
*ride the London Eye
*see a cashpoint machine like no other
*see a Jeff Koons sculpture in the open air
*see a painting be brought to life
*see a squash that weighs 900 lb
*see artists in their studios
*see how quickly sheep are shorn
*see Lenin's office
*see litter from the Thames become art
*see plates designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
*see red phone boxes pretend to be dominoes
*see Seth Cohen's favourite band
*see someone with the feet of a man, but the head of a puppet
*see the only Daniel Libeskind building in London
*see the queen's handwriting
*see the thinnest pub in London
*see the world's oldest dated carpet
*see what a MacArthur-certified "genius" can do with yarn
*see where the Big Ben bell was made
*see where Twelfth Night was first performed
*sing and play along with Billy Bragg
*sip mulled wine and eat mince pies in a church crypt
*sit in on an orchestra rehearsal
*smell buildings made of soap
*spiral down the government
*tour a derelict power station
*tour the Government Art Collection
*tour the world's oldest surviving grand music hall
*transform yourself into a matryoshka doll
*try not to fall into the crack
*try to catch cheese napping
*try to commit the human genetic code to memory
*try to figure out if it's art or playtime (or both)
*try to find all the metal men
*try to sort out the truth from the lies
*turn newspaper into performance art
*visit the oldest residential house in Hackney
*visit the oldest riverside pub in London
*vote (even if you're not a UK citizen)
*walk along the canal
*walk inside the disused oil tanks at Tate Modern
*walk the streets of chelsea, wondering if you're the only sane person left
*walk through a flat devoid of furniture, but full of edges
*walk through a tunnel filled with stencil art
*walk under a canopy of kiwi fruit
*wander through an overgrown cemetery
*watch a film with bears (in the room, not in the film)
*watch a fountain cry
*watch a silent disco
*watch comedians try to find the truth
*watch computer animation made before 1980
*watch films in a canal tunnel
*watch people dance on a carpet of icing sugar
*watch soccer in an opera house
*watch the moon turn red
*witness taxi driving transform into art
*wonder how your neighbourhood managed to get so busy

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