Only one month left! I've made a list of the places (in no particular order) that I must fit in before I leave.

Bramah Museum of Coffee and Tea
Dali Universe
Design Museum
Fashion & Textile Museum
Florence Nightingale Museum
Hayward Gallery
HMS Belfast
Museum of Garden History
Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret
Shakespeare's Globe (tour)
Southwark Cathedral
Royal Albert Hall
Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience
Bank of England Museum
Dr. Johnson's House
Guildhall Art Gallery
Museum of London
St. Bartholomew-the-Great
Tower Bridge Exhibition
Tower of London
Hunterian Museum
Temple Church
Museum & Library of the Order of St. John
Gilbert Collection at Somerset House
Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
British Libary
Cartoon Museum
Charles Dickens Museum
Foundling Museum
St. Pancras New Church
Benjamin Franklin House
London's Transport Museum
Theatre Museum
Wigmore Hall
Handel House Museum
Serpentine Gallery
Wellington Arch
Cabinet War Rooms & Churchill Museum
Institute of Contemporary Art
Jewel Tower
St. Margaret's Church
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Westminster Cathedral
National Army Museum
Oratory Catholic Church
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Saatchi Gallery
Albert Memorial (close up)
Science Museum
Highgate Cemetery
Keats House
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood
Dennis Severs' House
Geffrye Museum
Museum in Docklands
Kensal Green Cemetery
Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising
Hampton Court Palace
Ham House
Horniman Museum
Marble Hill House
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Clowns Museum
Wellcome Collection
Vinopolis
London Eye Ferris Wheel
Apsley House
Old Bailey
City Hall
Church Farmhouse Museum
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Vestry House Museum

So I need to whittle it down a bit. Okay, a lot. But it won't be easy.

I wasn't able to check anything off the list today. Rick and I went over to the Tate Britain. We split up and toured separately. I concentrated on some new contemporary installations--Sarah Lucas, Allen Jones, Patrick Heron, Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Rebecca Warren, and one by Siobhan Hapaska (Delirious) that included an electronic version of Elvis's Love Me Tender that was very annoying after a while (I don't know how the guards could listen to it over and over again). Then Rick and I met up to take a guided tour covering a selection of works between 1900 and 2007. We were interrupted part way through by a fire alarm and the evacuation of the building. After waiting about 15 minutes in the rain we were allowed back in. Rick stayed to see the rest of the museum and I went home, getting caught in a torrential downpour on the way to the tube.

The rain stopped but the wind picked up by the time we left to see the play Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill at the Almeida Theatre. It was very funny in parts, especially the first act, and well-acted. The play is about gender and sex and marriage in Victorian times and in the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies, but I don't think a description of what it is about would make one want to go see it. I think it's one of those plays that you just have to see for yourself. It was quite sexually explicit in parts, and I don't think that the visiting parents of one of the students particularly enjoyed it.

Gord and I went straight home after the play, but Rick went off to hear some music.

Sadly, I think my gloves are going to have to come out this week. It is starting to get COLD.

Reading: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins