Westminister Abbey post Wills and Kate

I met up with Wendy to explore the abbey - me to complete the historical exploration I started in 1982 with Janie, and Wendy to view the flowers that remained from the wedding last week.  What a shock. Firstly the last time I was there I was among about 10 people visiting that day - today there were about 10,000.  I should have realised. The second shock was the cost of 16 pounds to get in, I am sure it was free last time and thirdly there was a total ban on photographs.  So instead of any photos of various memorials to kings and queens, I have some other old rocks that were lovely that  I found at Greenwich as fill around a pylon holding up the Millennium Dome.

After the abbey, Wendy and I took a Thames Clipper to Greenwich and onto O2 where I took the above photo plus some other interesting structures including a sculpture that stands in the river and looks like mobile phone aerials but in fact it is lengths of square steel soldered together.

Wendy who was having the day off, spent much of it on her work mobile phone responding to crises about logistics relating to various film premiers her employer was responsible for.

Here she is, clutching one of my bags containing a kilo of Mondo Nougat from home that I brought her for her birthday yesterday. I hope it partly made up for me stuffing up arrangements she had made for us to go to the ballet on Wednesday evening.  Due to communication problems (partly my phone and partly my interpretation of arrangements made weeks ago by email) I didn't meet her as arranged thinking it was Thursday night and not Wednesday.

I am looking forward to meeting up with the children Friday to travel to Paris.  Each day I have phoned Myles and Elspeth when they have been breakfasting.  When Elspeth answers and says Hello Margaret, I can hear them in the background crying out, Nanny, Nanny etc.  I have to speak to each in turn before they will stop. Elspeth commented this morning that it must be good to have a fan club.  Alice's language has developed much since I saw her 3 weeks ago and we will have to add some French to that over the next 3 weeks.