I'm In London Still

Sunday 19th July

Our first communion meeting for 2 weeks. We slept in a little bit and caught the train at 9am (for a 10:30 meeting) from Victoria station out to a place called Beckenham which is where the London assembly has been having meetings for the last 15-20 years. Even though (like the Wednesday night meeting) most of them were Australians, it was great to catch up with others like Bill and Brenda, and also meet Pastor Chris and his wife Heather for the first time. After having only a piano (sometimes) and a guitar at the meeting for the last year in Canada it was great to hear all the choruses with a full band - Nathan (Brit) on the drums, Robbie G on the keyboard, Matt on the bass, and Heather on the flute. The Londoners are trying to get some meetings going closer into town near where all the Australians live and are having a big concert/outreach/meeting sometime later this year and inviting the Polski's so if you are planning to be in the area later this year around October or September make sure you get the details from Nathan or I'm sure it will be on http://www.rciuk.org/ fairly soon.

After the meeting we hung out with Rob, Pam and Barb (from Australia related to the Begg's) and we went to the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum's cafe for lunch, and then after lunch had a wander around the museum. Soon after we started wandering around we were wishing we had come here instead of the Tate Modern because there is sooooo much stuff to look at, and far more interesting, like iron gates from the 1200's, and full roman columns, and heaps of statues. The place where we spent most of our time was in the performing arts section where they had costumes and props and sound effects machines from many different musicals. They even had a full replica of Kylie Minogue's dressing room from one of her tours (not that we are fans, but it was still interesting).

After the V&A we just went back to Rob and Pam's place and just hung out - Pam made a nice lasagne for dinner. Unfortunately only one photo today - sorry peoples.