Sunny Afternoon

James and I had a lovely day in London yesterday; to make the most of the sunshine we made our way to Regents Park which was very pretty with Spring flowers. We had a good talk and walked for miles. James booked us a show for the evening - Sunny Afternoon - which is a sort of musical biography of The Kinks. It was excellent and the cast were brilliant. The music was great - I had no idea just how many good songs had been written by Ray Davies. Some, like Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset, were of course very familiar, but there were lots of others which were later covered by other people, like The Pretenders' Stop your Sobbing and I Go to Sleep, which I had never realised were originally by The Kinks. It was a very enjoyable show in the small but high (four tier) Harold Pinter Theatre. We had drinks at the interval the in a small, beautifully ornate bar just off the Royal Circle. 

After the show we received a photo sent to us by Alasdair - of Tom watching a roe deer as it walked through our garden! I have never seen that before!